The Duchess says she don't care a cuss for NAP, and that I mustn't neither. LEOPOLD, SIGMARINGEN-HOHENZOLLERN.

Although it cannot be called Noctilucous, like the lightning bug, it has no objection to alight in the darkness, and you often knock till you cuss in your vain attempts to prevent its taking a Shine to you.

"Skinny's gonehe's surrendered," he said to Chuck, lying full length on the porch at his side; "look at the poor cuss with his eyes shut and grinning as if he was seeing visions of Paradise!"

But, most noble cuss of the Realm, I must lay aside my goose quil, and go and do the family chores.

This gen'l'man's been at it twelve yearstried more 'n one camp, but nowwell, he's so well fixed he don't care a cuss about the Klondyke.

You insults us by paying such low-down ornary cusses as Snowie.

She said in living with them in the house, she learned to cuss from him.

Half a mile east of the city passes from the south Wad Marteen, (the Cus of Marmol) which disembogues into the sea; on its banks is the little port of Marteen or Marteel, not quite two miles distant from the coast, and about three from the city, where a good deal of commerce is carried on, small vessels, laden with the produce of Barbary, sailing thence to Spain, Gibraltar, and even France and Italy.

Naturally, Percy had hardly got the pap-rag out of his mouth before he learned to smoke cigarettes, and he could cuss like a little gentleman before he went into long pants.

You tole the ole cuss in plain words what we've bin a- thinkin' fer a coon's age.

I was cussed on that point, though if it hadn't been for Robin, I shouldn't have bothered.

It wouldn't be possible to find an ornerier cuss than you, if a man raked all hell with a fine-toothed comb.

"I must seem an awful rough cuss to her, though; all right for a cousin, but it's different when you come to the other proposition.

If we was going to do the thing, we wanted to do it; and so forth and so forth, till we had him saddled and bridled and standing in the corner of the corral as peaceful as a soldier's monument, for he was the best-hearted old cuss under his crust that ever lived.

They'll see that the laugh is on them, and they'll have a lot of fun out of it, and then send the old cuss along to another town with some more funny letters to fool the next ones."

Still, there are thirty thousand soldiers here, and in my neck of the woods such rumors are laughed and cussed at.