Vulgar words in Peck's Compendium of Fun (Page 1)

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Your purity and innocence has been remarked by all who have met you, and there are none who would dare to intimate but that you would maintain your reputation against any attack, but sometimes we think we should hesitate to leave you all alone, with the light turned down all night and over Sunday, in the company of an eloquent, persuasive, good-looking burglar armed with a jimmy, and we fear that his warm hearted can of powder would strike a responsive chord in your impulsive nature, and that you would yield up the jewels confined to you, and your honor, your reputation, your standing among safes would be forever ruined.

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The young man blushed, and said that was about the size of it.

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The girl picked up a roll of paper cambric, and was about to brain him, when the floor walker came along, and asked what was the matter.

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It is seldom the _Sun_ gets on its ear, but it can say with great fervency, "Damn a man that will work poor girls like slaves, and pay them next to nothing, and spend ten thousand dollars to catch a dog-thief!"

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She drew her pistol, cocked it, and pointed it at Pierce, who was trembling in every leg, and said: "Look-a-here, you young cuss.

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Green's first impulse was to pull the bell rope, and order the cuss to get out of the ice house, but he saw the bear coming through the air towards him, and there was not four hours to lose, so he drew the revolver, took aim at the bear's left eye, and pulled.

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