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Harry Squires approached the group with something like news in his face. "I should say so," he said. "The darned cusses robbed the State Express last night at Vanderskoop and got away with thirteen hundred dollars. Say, they're wonders! The engineer says they're only five of them."
Captain Jim took a great fancy to Gog and Magog, who were presiding over the destinies of the hearth in the little house with as much dignity and aplomb as they had done at Patty's Place. "Aren't they the cutest little cusses?" he would say delightedly; and he bade them greeting and farewell as gravely and invariably as he did his host and hostess.
The motorman drew in his head, clanged the bell, and the afternoon traffic proceeded to untangle. "Get in, old-timer," invited the driver whom Casey had assisted. Casey did not ask whether the driver was going in his direction, but got in chuckling at the small triumph over his enemies, the police. "Fords are mean cusses," he observed sympathetically.
Growther looked at him a moment, and then said: "Are you sayin' that because you mean it?" "Yes." "Would you mind helpin' me make a little garden? I know I ought to have done it long ago, but I'm one of those 'crastinating cusses, and rheumatic in the bargain." "I'll make your garden on the one condition that you stand by and boss the job." "O, I'm good at bossin', if nothing else.
"He always cusses the hosses," said Young Pete. "Everybody cusses 'em." "'Most everybody. But a man what cusses a hoss is only cussin' hisself. You're some young to git that but mebby you'll recollect I said so, some day." "Didn't you cuss him when you set on him?" queried Pete. "For why, son?" "Wa'n't you mad?" "Shucks, no." "Don't you ever cuss?" "Not frequent, son.
"Pa, where were the two Paddies, Pete and Bill, that they did not mind the team while you were in meeting?" said young Harry. "Hang the cusses, Harry! They wanted to hear the preacher, too," answered the father. "If I were you, pa," said little Libby, "I would keep the price of the hosses out of Pete and Bill's wages, the ugly fellows, that did not mind and keep the team from running away."
Me and Van and Napoleon has went through purg and back, many's the time, and was lucky to git out with our skeletons, sayin' nuthin' about the gold." "Oh." She could think of nothing else to say. "In fact Van was all that got me out onct Napoleon, too. We wasn't worth it, prob'ly. That's the joke on Van. Since then us three cusses has starved, and froze, and clean roasted, chasin' gold." "Oh."
"I am going to study law in the judge's office Judge Bassett, you know." "So you can keep a tongue in yo' head when those plagued cusses come 'bout the mortgage?" "So I can take cases to court and earn a living." "Why don't you stick to the land and make yo' bread honest?" "The law's honest." Turner shook his hairy head. "It cheated me out o' twelve bushels of 'taters las' year," he said.
Well, we did all kinds o' fancy ropin', an' I was a shade the better at all of it; but those confounded cusses kept on claimin' it was a tic until I got het up a little, an' sez 'at we'll have a lassoo duel an' that'll settle it, even among blind men. This ain't all amusement, this lassoo-duel on hoss-back, an' I see Andrews look wickedly content.
Buck drew up a chair, and obediently filled and lit his pipe. "Life's pretty twisted," the Padre began, his steady gray eyes smiling contemplatively. "So twisted, it makes you wonder some. That girl's happier now, because I told her there were no such things as cusses. Yes, it's all queer." He reached out and helped himself from Buck's tobacco pouch. Then he, too, filled and lit his pipe.
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