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See 1805-h.htm or 1805-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/0/1805/1805-h/1805-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/0/1805/1805-h.zip) THE GENTLE GRAFTER by O. HENRY Illustrated by H. C. Greening and May Wilson Preston 1919 [Illustration: "They began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars."

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So they began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars on the bar till it sounded like a selection on the xylophone.

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What Master Frank needs is a first-class dressing-down, and here the little cuss has got me bluffed to a fare-you-well so that I'm mum as a hooter on the nest," he admitted to himself ruefully.

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"Jest as I thought the little cuss is climbin' higher.

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It becomes irritated over the merest trifles -- a passing bumblebee, a visit from another bird to its tangle, an unsuccessful peck at a gnat -- anything seems calculated to rouse its wrath and set every feather on its little body a-trembling, while it sharply snaps out what might perhaps be freely constructed into "cuss-words."

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Don't you know no better'n to cuss in front of a kid?"

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"Now you, you hike down this fence till you locate a gate or a corner, or any darned thing; and I don't give a cuss if the snow does get in your eyes.

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You sure look good to me, you darned little cuss!"

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Bill's a perseverin' old cuss, and wants to see Conroy so bad he's got the sheriff out lookin' for him.

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"Have him in," said Mr. B., "if he's a friend of Mr. Titmarsh's; for, cuss me, I like to see a rogue: and run me through, Titmarsh, but I think you are one of the best in London.

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and even my Lord's own man, that 'as 'ad as much success as any gentleman in Europe--he says that, cuss him--" "Mr. Charles," says I, "tell my Lord's own man that, if he wants to keep his place and his whole skin, he will never address a single word to that lady but such as a servant should utter in the presence of his mistress; and take notice that I am a gentleman, though a poor one, and will murder the first man who does her wrong!"

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'The cuss was hard up.

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But the major-domo's the whole works; he's a windy cuss, and intimates that he has a card or two up his sleeve that will put these quarantine guards to sleep when he springs them.

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"That sign means that the man that lives up this lane is a mean, stingy cuss, with a wicked dog, and it's no good to go there."

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You jump inside and I'll be after you like a shot.... We'll lock ourselves in--" "Hey, Mizzoo!" shouted a voice from the crowd, "bring out that old cuss.

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"These boys are in the right of it, that's how I feel--cuss that obstinate old bobcat!

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He's tired of the beaches and he has begun to cuss the long, smooth roads that are signed so that he couldn't get lost if he tried.

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That night he once more pitched his tent in the trail, hoping in his heart that some one would drive along and dispute his right to camp there; when he would lick the doggone cuss.

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"You can't cuss 'im t' death--he looks like he could cut loose a few of them pet names hisself if he got a chancet.

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Every one, even Paw, who was normally a mean, cantankerous old cuss, was having the time of his life.

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Onery cuss--I wouldn't put nothin' past him.

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Sure he'll lick you, but mebbe you could give the old cuss a black eye."

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Bruce was half drunk an' he began to cuss an' rave about Jean Isbel bein' in love with his girl.... As bad luck would have it, a couple of more fellars come in an' asked Meeker questions.

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God made you perpendicular and suitable to ride straddle and use cuss words in the original.

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"He come alongside special to cuss us.

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A mean, cantankerous old cuss whose curious pride it was that he had never given anything away.

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He swore a little at the "mean cuss," the author of all the trouble, and then took the stricken woman to what all his acquaintances facetiously termed his "hotel."

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She hasn't been taken in, for I'm the same old chap she married, and I'd be a mighty mean cuss if I went to her and said, 'Here, I want you to do twice as much, a hundred-fold as much as you agreed to.'

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With a pause of insulting scorn at the interruption, the driver resumed, pointedly, to Mulrady: "The pint of the whole thing was my cussin' a helpless man, ez could neither cuss back nor shoot; and then afterwards takin' you for his ghost layin' for me to get even."

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You'll naturally stamp round and cuss a little--" He stopped in conscious consternation.

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He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort."

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"He grinned a kind of lopsided grin, like he had a lemon in his mouth, and commenced to cuss the horse for tryin' to climb a pine tree.

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Cuss your black hide, young'un, I's gwine to break you from this snuff-stealin' and dippin'."

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Hicks, cuss him, didn't show me how to make the damn lights work!"

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Cuss your hide, come out and look at my automobile!

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But, I declare, I never heard old Doctor Elton cuss so before."

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The millionaire said: " He's a sly cuss, anyhow."

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So, bein' as he hadn't no name except cuss words, that one stuck.

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'An' we gave the cuss a hand, after knowin' what he'd did.'

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He's a looker, all right a cute little cuss.

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'Tain't every cuss that can wag his tail when his leg's bust."

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But no; the old cuss has to take it into his head to go to sea again just as the berth's ripe for me to fall into."

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"Matthews is a cautious cuss and he wanted a good deal of persuading, so we lost a lot of time.

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Steve was a funny cuss, and I was just sitting up in the blankets and laughing when a tornado hit camp.

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And I knew, too, how he does hate the Cap'n; ain't had nothin' but cuss words and such names for him ever since Sam done him out of gettin' the postmaster's job.

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A King Solomon down here in Orham would be an awful lonesome cuss."

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Soon's the old cuss gets back and I can catch him by telephone I'll find out.

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Six or eight weeks ago--in January 'twas-- there was a drummer in my store sellin' a line of tools and he was lookin' out of the window when this Phillips cuss went by with Maud Hunniwell, both of 'em struttin' along as if common folks, honest folks, was dirt under their feet.

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Smilin' sort o' cuss was Tim; Never seen th' beat o' him!

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If he had a franc he'd buy Chocolate or chow for us, Gen'rus little smilin' cuss-- That was Tim!

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Smilin' sort o' little cuss, Meetin' me without a fuss-- Tim, my bunkie, livin'!...

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That little cuss?

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), you see, kinder made the cuss blink.

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For you see the dern cuss had struck--"Water?"

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Thet's why it's Dow's Flat; And the thing of it is That he kinder got that Through sheer contrairiness: For 'twas WATER the derned cuss was seekin', and his luck made him certain to miss.

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But they all allow that Sutter had begun a kind of mutter, when uprose Mr. Cutter with a sickening kind of ease, And proceeded then to wade in to the subject then prevadin': "Is Profanity degradin'?" in words like unto these: "Onlike the previous speaker, Mr. Sutter of Yreka, he was but a humble seeker--and not like him--a cuss"-- It was here that Mr. Sutter softly reached for Mr. Cutter, when the latter with a stutter said: "ac-customed to discuss."

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Now," he went on, with a half laugh, "wasn't it enough for ME to go on pretendin' I was rich and doing a big business, and gettin' up that lock-box dodge so as ye couldn't find out whar I hung out and what I was doin'--wasn't it enough for ME to go on with all this play-actin', but YOU, you long-legged or nary cuss!

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"I knew the slimy cuss was just purtendin' he thought I was prayin' to my Joss, but I was that weak I hadn't stren'th, boys, to heave a rock at him.

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But Old Doc was a stubborn cuss."

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"'Yes, you little cuss,' he exclaimed, irreverently, 'you're great on dress parade, but not worth a darn in a fight."'

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Dad cotched six last night, and killed all but this poor little cuss.

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Now, it's my duty, as your attorney, to tell you that you may drive him to go over to that cuss, Davis."

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"The little cuss bit me.

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"Yah; yore a smart cuss, ain't yu?"

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Why, Ah Sing, over at Albuquerque, gives them away every time yu gits yore shirt washed," gravely interposed Hopalong as he went out to cuss the cook.

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I got th' cuss," he said consolingly.

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"I can cuss all I wants," replied Hopalong, proving his assertion as he grabbed his gun and fired at the dead Indian.

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Yore shore all right, yu old cuss," complimented Hopalong, elated at the success of the experiment.

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We better get a move on an' find that ornery little cuss," replied Buck.

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an' that there four-eyed cuss looks at it and snickers.

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"I'd like to see any two-laigged cuss get my guns If I didn't want him to!" began Hopalong, indignant at the idea.

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I'd shore look nice loping around a keno layout without my guns, in th' same town with some cuss huntin' me, wouldn't I?

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"He's di' cuss that raised that ruction down in Mexico last spring.

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He's a shore funny cuss."

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"Hey, Buck, this here cuss was with a Barred-Horseshoe cow," he announced as he turned it over to the branding man.

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"Some, yu little cuss," answered Red with all the good nature in the world.

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"Let's put it in th' grub wagon an see him cuss cookie," suggested Hopalong.

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"I've heard of that cuss--he shore was th' limit.

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Wasn't he th' cuss that built that boat out there on th' Arizona desert because he was scared that a flood might come?

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"Quit yore foolin', yu old cuss," he remarked pleasantly, as he groped around behind him with his feet, searching for his boots.

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"He was a bad shot--must have been the cuss that got away yesterday," speculated the injured man as he slowly arose to his feet.

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"Did ye ever," continued Jack solemnly, "know me to cuss, sass, bully-rag, or say anything agin parsons, or the church?"

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He lets 'em cuss.

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And I-cuss my wheel-base!-I'd kick clean off the track at half his gait.

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He was allers onsartain, the darned little cuss!

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"The pie, you'll say, is agin it," he continued in the same tone of voice,--"the whiskey is agin it--a few cuss words that dropped from him, accidental like, may have been agin it.

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And, suddenly conscious that someone nearly behind him had begun talking about his family, he screwed his face round to see an old be-wigged buffer, who spoke as if he were eating his own words--queer-looking old cuss, the sort of man he had seen once or twice dining at Park Lane and punishing the port; he knew now where they 'dug them up.'

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"What's _that_ cuss up to?"

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"And you?" said Bill, holding him at arm's length, and surveying him critically,--"you!--toe think--toe think--a little cuss no higher nor a trace, a boy as I've flicked outer the road with a whip time in agin, a boy ez never hed much clothes to speak of, turned into a sport!"

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And it's too much: cuss me if it's not too much, unless you'll take my little bill at two months, Rafael."

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"Wictims of that nashnal cuss, the Broken Gage, me and Mrs. Plush was left in the train to Cheltenham, soughring from that most disgreeble of complaints, a halmost BROKEN ART.

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And I am saying to you right here and now that there are other important questions pending except "wet" and "dry"... You know, it is a very easy thing to sit or stand around and "cuss" those in a legislative body for what they did or did not do...

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'Cuss those carabineers of Milhaud's,' says Slasher, 'what work they made of our light cavalry!' implying a sort of surprise that the Frenchman should stand up against Britons at all: a good-natured wonder that the blind, mad, vain-glorious, brave poor devils should actually have the courage to resist an Englishman.

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"Ye kin kalkilate what kind of a pardner that 'ar yaller-livered Mayfield would make up on that box, partik'ly ez I heard before we started that he'd requested the kimpany's agent in Sacramento to select a driver ez didn't cuss, smoke, or drink.

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that shiftless, o'n'ry cuss!

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"Cuss-an'-burn the nasty varmint!" said Fortner angrily, snatching up a pine knot from his feet and flinging it at the beast, which vanished into the darkness with another curdling scream.

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"Cuss-an'-burn the blasted ole smooth-bore," said Fortner, contemptuously.

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You have been the cuss and bain of my happyniss since you entered it.

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I recollect your 'May-day in the morning'--cuss me, the best comick song I ever heard.

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'You shif'less cuss,' he said to him, 'ye'd jes' dew nothin' but chase squirrels an' let me break my back t' carry yer dinner.'

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