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From this out, them that had Christian hearts and loved their religion trated the thief as she desarved to be trated. She was hissed and hooted, thank God, wherever she showed her face; but still nobody had courage to lay a hand upon her by rason of her blasphaimin' and cursin', which, they say, used to make the hair stand like wattles upon the heads of them that heard her."
"I think that Luke, if he was here, would wish some other feller to knock off cursin' an' swearin'," said Joe. "Come, Joe," said the skipper, "don't you pretend to be one o' the religious sort, for you know you're not." "That's true," returned Joe, "and I don't pretend to be; but surely a man may object to cursin' without bein' religious.
Well, as I was sayin', we shtuck there breathin' in each other's faces and swearin' powerful; Orth'ris cursin' the mother that bore him bekaze he was not three inches taller. "Prisintly he sez: 'Duck, ye lump, an' I can get at a man over your shouldher!
They pulled the boat through monster seas, and the brute was cursin' at the women aal the way until they gat alangside, when the captain said, 'Ma ship's sinkin'. The crew were telled to jump into the boat smart, and as syen as the captain said, 'We're aal heor, Jimmy sprang aboard like a cat, cast the boat adrift, shooted to his wife, 'She's mine!
"Well, ain't it better than loafin' around yer billets all day, thinkin' an' cursin' an' wishin' ye was home?" spoke up the man who sat the other side, pounding down the tobacco in his pipe with a thick forefinger. "It makes me sick, trampin' round this way in ranks all day with the goddam frawgs starin' at us an'..." "They're laughin' at us, I bet," broke in another voice.
Oh sneered he you Harold Ramorez what did you bite me for Yes sneered Mr Wilson also and he has shot me in the abdomen too the Soon they were both cursin and reviln him together Why you sneered they what did you want to injure us for you Harold Ramorez you have not got any sence and you think you are so much but you are no better than anybody else and you are a
'E'd 'ad 'is thigh bone smashed all to bits, and they'd jest taken 'is leg off when I saw 'im. 'E was weak as a kid and chirpy as a sparrer, and only cursin' becos 'e was out of things for the rest of the war. I never 'eard what 'appened to 'im, but the nurse told me as 'ow they was afraid 'e wouldn't recover becos of emmyridge, or something with a name like that.
When we have been at home a week or two we shall scarcely remember each other's names. Esther sobbed at intervals, but her tears had ceased. 'It's fine for you to talk of home, she said to this. 'You've got something that is a home, I s'pose? But me! my home's like hell, with nothing but quarrellin' and cursin', and a father who beats us whether sober or drunk.
It's my opinion it would ha' been a narrow squeak for him this time, if me and a mate hadn't nipped in and got these bracelets on him. There he was, ravin' and sweatin' and cursin' his head off, grey as death. Hell-gate, he called it, said he was devil's-porter at hell-gate, and kept hollerin' for napkins and his firesticks. Poor ol' boss! It WAS hell for him and no mistake!"
'Lord! cried Phemy, 'I'll be cursin a' the warl' and God himsel, gien I gang on this gait! Eh, ye fause wuman! Kirsty sprang upon her at one bound from her seat, threw her arms round her so that she could not move hers, and sitting down with her on her lap, said 'Phemy, gien I was yer mither, I wad gie ye yer licks for sayin what ye didna i' yer hert believe!
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