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Sure, says he, 'Jagger never heared that word! "Well, sir, as you knows, there's been a wonderful cotch o' fish on the Labrador side o' the Straits this summer. An' when Skipper Jim hears a Frenchman has brought the smallpox t' Poor Luck Harbour, we was tradin' the French shore o' Newfoundland. Then he up an' cusses the smallpox, an' says he'll make a v'y'ge of it, no matter what.
"And the stakes?" Another answered in a thin, piping treble. "I reckon them two cusses took along the most ov it. Enyhow 'tain't yere, 'cept maybe a few coins that rolled tinder the table. It wasn't Joe Kirby who picked up the swag, fer I was a watchin' him, an' he never onct let go ov his gun.
Van goin' till I think he'll put him out of business 'n' say! but he cusses wicked when things don't go to suit him! "'Stick your knees in and keep your backbone limber! Hold his head up now at this jump don't drag at his mouth that way! Why! damn it all! . . . you haven't as good hands as a cab-driver, is the kind of stuff he keeps yellin' at poor Mr. Van.
"We're all right," said the Bishop, in low tones. "The cusses have been here once unless they happened to see us. They're startin' in now down on the flat to make sure no poor sick critter is left in bed in any of them houses. Now's your chance if you want to git up to Daggin's. Go out the back way, follow up the alleys, and go in at the back when you git there.
Meredith who stood frowning with her eyes fixed on the floor. "I've known burros, and other contrary cusses, in my time," he said, slowly, "but this feller Presby has 'em all lookin' as simple, and plain, and understandable, as a cross-roads guide-post." And The Lily, contrite, agreed.
I don't say so much about this other gent, though I saw him along with you on the job that time in the provinces; but if he's a pal of yours, Mr. Raffles, he'll be all right too. I only hope you gents ain't too stony " And he touched his pockets with a rueful face. "I only went for their togs," said he. "You never struck two such stony-broke cusses in yer life!" "That's all right," said Raffles.
Then she continued, with great earnestness, looking across the kindling expanse of hill and valley before us: 'You know, the very dead things round us, these here peaks, an' rocks, an' lakes, an' mountains ay, an' the woods an' the sun an' the sky above our heads, cusses us when we do anythink wrong. You may see it by the way they looks at you.
To most men tub time is the jolliest in the day; here it is one of evil temper, for after you have waited say twenty minutes in a passage for your chance, you get into a little wet steamy place over the engines, with possibly no port and poorly ventilated, and have your tub in a hurry for you know other fellows are waiting outside, and instead of gaily carolling your morning song you feel angry and cuss cusses, not loud, but profound as Tuscarora Deep.
"Seven horses, one being led light," said the former. "That was Scott's, probably." "That's the whole story," replied the sheriff, staring off toward the bare horizon, "and the cusses have at least six hours the start with fresh horses." He turned around. "Well, boys, that takes 'em out of my baliwick, I reckon. Some of the rest of you will have to run that gang down." Dr.
"If they don't get their fun when they're little, why, when is it ever goin' to come? I know he'll die, all alone with us old cusses, and I ain't a-goin' to wait." "But the claim is goin' to be a fortune," said Bone. "Couldn't you hold on jest a week or two and see if he won't get over thinkin' 'bout the little gals?"
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