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A Georgia Methodist preacher directed by a Federal officer to pray for the President said afterwards: "I prayed for the President that the Lord would take out of him and his allies the hearts of beasts and put into them the hearts of men or remove the cusses from office." Sometimes members of a congregation showed their resentment at the "loyal" prayers by leaving the church.

"Made in Germany, it says, and it shore looks like it. It's got little pins stickin' out of th' cylinder, like you had to swat it with a hammer or a rock, or somethin' to make it go off. Must be damn dangerous, to most anybody around. Looks more like a cactus than a six-shooter-gosh, it's a ten-shooter! I allus said them Dutchmen was bloody-minded cusses.

I was hopeful that with these fellows' greater skill in such matters they could find what I had not, but after a thorough examination of the ground within a mile of the robbery they were as much at fault as I had been. "Them cusses must have a dugout nigh abouts, for they couldn't 'a' got away without wings," the sheriff surmised. I didn't put much stock in that idea, and told the sheriff so.

Lablache deigned no reply, but the other was as good as his word. "Sulky, some, I guess," the half-breed went on. "Wal, I'm not goin' back on my word," he added as he rolled the barrel up to his prisoner and scotched it securely. "Thar, set." The money-lender didn't move. "Set!" This time the word conveyed a command and the other sat down on the barrel. "Guess I can't stand cantankerous cusses.

Then they walked back to their quarters. The men on the mesa, balked of their purpose, had withdrawn. Sam accompanied Sinclair to his door, and then sententiously remarked: "Major, I think I'll light out and find some of the boys. You ain't got no call to know anything about it, but I allow it's about time them cusses was bounced."

Billinger's yellow-mustached face, pallid and twisted with pain, looked over them as Philip galloped across the open and sprang out of his saddle. With a terrible grimace he raised himself to his knees, anticipating the question on Philip's lips. "Nothing very bad, Steele," he said. "One of the cusses pinked me through the leg, and broke it, I guess. Painful, but not killing. Now look at that!"

The three men sat on the verandah while a servant brought brandy-and-soda, and Nana Sahib, with a restless perversity akin to the torturing proclivity of a Hindu was quizzing the Frenchman about his recruits. "You'll find them no good," he assured Baptiste "rebellious cusses, worthless thieves. My Moslem friend, the King of Oudh, tried them out.

"But I jest wanted to hear you say so, Jim, fer you and me has had an eddication which lots of cusses into camp 'ain't never got. Not that it's anything agin 'em, but you know how it is. I'll bet the little shaver will like them better'n anything else he'll git." "Oh, he'll like 'em in a different way," agreed the miner. "No doubt about that."

How long since that basket sled, with three men and eight dogs, passed? he asked. 'An even two days ahead. Are you after them? 'Yes; my team. Run them off under my very nose, the cusses.

Doc, for a man that has skinned as many of 'em as you have, you're the worst sucker yourself I ever saw." The doctor, he cusses the poker game and country towns and medicine shows and the hull creation and says he is so disgusted with life he guesses he'll go and be a preacher or a bearded lady in a sideshow. But Looey, he don't cheer up none. He says: "All right, Doc, but it's no use talking.