Vulgar words in Santa Fé's Partner - Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town (Page 1)
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About the size of it is, most folks needs barbed wire to keep 'em from straying.
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When the Apache streak gets on top it sends 'em along quick into clear deviltry--the kind that makes you cussed just for the sake of cussedness and not caring a damn; and it's them that has give some parts of the Western Country--like it did New Mexico in the time I'm talking about, when they was bunched thick there--its bad name.
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But he missed it that time too, Hill said--and Hill said, speaking in his careless cuss-word way, it was pretty damn rough on him what poor luck in fatherly kisses he seemed to have--because just then the train conductor swung his lantern and sung out: "All aboard!"
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Hill didn't know what in the world the Hen was up to--nobody ever did know what that Hen was up to when once she got started--but he reckoned he could take it back in the morning if he didn't think what she wanted would answer, so in he come: telling Hart's nephew he might have the coach to do anything (Hill was a kind of a careless talker) he damn pleased with; and saying he'd have it hitched up and ready down at the deepo next morning, same as usual, so he could start right off when the Denver train come in.
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I've allowed we have one--things being as they was, I had to--but I've told her it's out of order, and the children laid up with whooping-cough, and the teacher sick a-bed, and the outfit damaged by a fire we had, and--and the Lord knows what I haven't told her about the damn thing."
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He let out a big cuss--and Charley wasn't given to cussing--when Ike made his offer; and then he banged his hand down on the table so hard he set the chips to flying, and he said: "Mr. Hart, don't you worry--we're going to put this job through!"
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When the sun did his part of the work and give all the light was needed, we done ours--which was coming out from among the mesquite bushes and saying good-morning polite to Boston, up on the roof of the 'dobe, and then taking the hobbles off old man Gutierrez's jackass so it could walk away home.
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About the size of it was, in all the matters he could see his way to that little man had as good a load of sand as anybody--and more'n most.
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"If I know anything about the sense of this meeting," Hill chipped in, "it's going to do a damn sight more'n sling around sympathy."
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Shorty got right into the hanging spirit--he always was a comical little cuss, Shorty was--pleading pitiful with the boys to let up on him; and, when they wouldn't, getting a halt on 'em--same as he'd seen done at real hangings--by beginning to send messages to all the folks he ever had.
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Nobody but chumps, he said, would want to hurt his feelings by making him do trick-mule acts at poor old Bill's funeral--'specially as him and Bill always had been friendly, and nobody was sorrier than he was about the accident that had occurred.
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"Oh, damn it all!" said Hill--it was Hill's way to talk sort of careless--"Give him another chance!"
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Whipping done some good, Hill used to say; but cuss-words was the only sure things to make mules go.