United States or Argentina ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Well, this guy's the rich old guy's daughter comes in and says she's married to a poor man and she won't tell his name, but she wants some money from her dad. You see, her dad's been planning for her to marry a marquise or some kind of a lord, and he's sore as can be, and he won't listen to her, and he just cusses her out something fierce, see?
"If Cap'n Dick rips and tears and pulls the grass up by the roots, the chief'll only say, 'Wah! If he sits up and cusses till he's black in the face, the chief'll say, 'Ugh! And that's just about all a man hankers for when his sore's a-running in the night season, and all Thy waters have gone over his head. Selah!"
Y'know, Waupac is a kind of a summer resort, and the people that use' t' come in summers looked down on us cusses in the fields an' shops. I couldn't stand it. By God!" he said with a sudden im pulse of rage quite unlike him, "I'd rather live on an ice-berg and claw crabs f'r a livin' than have some feller passin' me on the road an' callin' me fellah!"
Got him patched up an’ into town; then he keeled over when he tried to git down off his hoss an’ was in bed a week." "Apaches?" "Naw, we figured it was Kitchell. Couldn’t prove it though, an’ after that th’ Old Man made a rule we take Pimas every drive. Ain’t nothin’ able to surprise them. I never had no use for Injuns, but these here are peaceful cusses—iffen they don’t smell an Apache.
He raves an' talks about parsons most of the time. He says that they're a meddlin' lot. He cusses 'em like mad, an' I've seen 'im in sich a rage that I thought he'd have an athletic fit. I guess he'll be taken outside when the river opens, fer he ain't safe, nohow." Keith's face flushed with anger as he listened to these words.
"Just what they all say; but they're treacherous cusses, and either one of 'em, would shake with one hand and scalp with t'other one, ef they got a chance.
They's one thing an' one only that I hate worse an' that's bootleggers an' moonshiners. If you got a scheme to give them cusses their needin's, you can ask anybody if Casey Ryan ain't the feller you can bank on." "Yes. That's what I've been thinking. Now, I wish you'd tell me exactly what you've been up against. Don't leave out anything, however trivial it might seem to you."
"Well, he be a mean cuss; but there be other cusses besides Lem, Mister." Brimbecomb flushed at the meaning glance in the squatter's shrewd eyes. "All you both have to do," said he bruskly, "is to spend the money I'll give you and keep your mouths shut."
There were not twenty warriors, and they were no doubt wretchedly armed, but their position was formidable. Sweeny, looking like an angry rat, his nose twitching and eyes sparkling with rage, offered to storm the rampart alone, shouting, "Oh, the nasty, lousy nagurs! Let 'em get out of our way." "Guess we'd better talk to the cusses," observed Glover.
Speaks fair English an' a bit o' Dago. They're allus handy on a pleasure-boat. He c'n keep off th' riffraff boatmen. An' you know what persistent cusses they be in the Med'terranean. Why?" "Oh, nothing, if he's a good sailor. Notice his hands?" "Why, no!" "Soft as a woman's." "Y' don't say! Well, we'll see 'em tough enough before we sight Funchal. Smells good up here; huh?"
Word Of The Day