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He opened his eyes, and stared. "You little cuss!" he breathed. A hundred times he had spoken those words, and each time they were of increasing wonder and adoration. "You little cuss!" he whispered again, and he chuckled aloud.
"D it, where do you come from?" the bird yelled; and then changing his tune, he shouted, "take that dog away take him away! take him away cuss him!" We could but feel amused at such proficiency in the English language, and were admiring the display of his rare talent, when the proprietor of the bird came to the door, evidently awakened from a nap by his protegé.
Which was the more remarkable, because he was known as a savage, cantankerous old cuss who never liked anybody. I have given the incident merely as an example of the multitudinous lures and draws and services by which John Barleycorn wins his followers. And still there arose in me no desire for alcohol, no chemical demand. In years and years of heavy drinking, drinking did not beget the desire.
"Well, it's just like this. If it was at school or any other place I wouldn't be bothered with the dirty little cuss, but out in the woods like this one feels kind o' friendly, an' three's better than two. Besides, he has been admitted to the Tribe already." "Yes, that's what I say. Let's give him a yell."
If he was preachin' on his beat, He'd tramp from east to west, And north to south-in cold and heat He done his level best. Here I have taken a slight liberty with the original MS. "Hades" does not make such good meter as the other word of one syllable, but it sounds better. He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, And lie and steal all one to him He done his level best.
Then there's Pete Haines, a half-witted old cuss begging your pardon, Ma'am! that's got enough dust cached somewhere to keep himself drunk perpetual; and the Widow Atkinson, and Big Olaf, and and Klondike Kate." He hesitated at the last name, and a brick-red flush suffused his stolid face, but Willa paid no heed. "Who are they?"
In short, he was spoken of by his neighbors as "a hard-working cuss, and tol'ably well fixed." No grace had come or ever could come into his life. Back of him were generations of men like himself, whose main business had been to work hard, live miserably, and beget children to take their places when they died.
We could hear that Zab was coming nearer, as we ran, and at last we heard a bang. "The little cuss has got him, I'll bet you. Come on, Ben." We ran on and came to the gully; and at the lower end of it was Amos, with my frock on, which reached down to the ground. He was holding up the fox, and Zab was jumping up and down. "Good boy, Amos! Now tell us about it."
It was apparent that after all the man could not have glimpsed their vanishing faces as they ducked so swiftly, for he continued to advance in the direction of the well and Perk could hear him softly singing, just as though he might be a "musical cuss," as Perk told himself with one of his customary chuckles since his first stab of alarm had passed off under the realization that they had another chance.
Louis Slupsky knows me and my whole family. His mother used to stuff feather pillows for mine. Kahn here is my brother-in-law and partner in business. He's a slow cuss and 'ain't grasped the situation yet. But are you on, little one? Is it St. Louis Thursday morning, as Mrs. ?" "Herm! You're cr " "Syl what'll I do?" "An on-the-level guy, Cleone. Marry! Do you hear? M-a-r-r-y!
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