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He "cusses" in the same unholy vernacular, only more vigorously. He strikes back as quickly. He hits as hard. He gives his enemy one cheek and then the other, and then both feet and fists; but the Canadian goes to church. One of the most amazing sights of the new frontier cities is to see a church debouching of a Sunday night. The people come out in black floods.
It ran something like this: "'Say, Cassell, how would you like to be in the saloon bar of the King's Arms down Rye Lane with a bottle of Bass in front of you, and that blonde barmaid waiting to fill 'em up again? "Cassell had a fancy for that particular blonde. The answer came back in the shape of a volley of cusses. I changed the subject.
If we didn't leave our money in the office until the end of the month, we might blow it in at a bar, and when the wife wanted money to pay the rent and food bill we would have to tell her we were broke and she would have to hang her head. When the landlord and butcher came for the money she would have to try to stand them off. Do we want to let the rent go unpaid until the landlord cusses us out?
If you'll promise to shove him ashore all safe, says I, `I don't mind taking a hand in your little game. "`Very sensible indeed, says the Yankee; `you've a darned sight better notions in your head than they two stupid cusses as has just gone over the side with nothin' to ballast 'em but their honesty, says he; `and as for the skipper make your mind easy.
The railrud sends them slick cusses down here that sit in the front seats who know all this here parliamentary law and the tricks of the trade, and every time any of us gets up to speak our honest minds, they have us ruled out of order or get the thing laid on the table until some Friday morning when there ain't nobody here, and send it along up to the Senate.
"He's Lord Something-or-Other's son, an' wouldn't think of associating with such common cusses as us. He belongs to the upper-crust, doncher-know." The man smiled, and his companions grinned. It was quite evident that they were all familiar with the story. "An' so ye say the gal yer lookin' fer is Miss Randall, daughter of Henry Randall, the big lumber merchant?" the captain asked.
At least they pretended to go on with their dinner, while Andy glared at them with amazed reproach in his misleadingly honest gray eyes. "When you've got plenty of time," he said at last in a choked tone, "maybe one of you obliging cusses will untie this damned rope." "Why, sure!" Pink threw a leg over the bench and got up with cheerful alacrity.
The sergeants do the swearing, The corporals "carry on"; The private cusses openly, And hopes he'll soon be gone. One evening the colonel sent me from our dug-out near the Salt Lake to "A" Beach to make a report on the water supply which was pumped ashore from the tank-boats. I trudged along the sandy shore.
"That was before you sent the order through fer the arms?" inquired Hickey. "Si, señor. But now, as you see, everything bids fair to go well, and " "By hemlock!" broke in Rafter's sharp voice, as he drew his pistol, "thar's two cusses hidin' in ther altar."
That sort of thing can be done on the 'outside', but in here where grub is worth its weight in gold, and none expect comforts, why waste time? We came here for that we cannot obtain in the States at least I did for gold, gold, and I'll have it, too, by Gad!" Then pricking up his ears again at the end of his soliloquy, he listened and laughed aloud. "Hear those malamute cusses!
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