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C J Dennis - LangwidgeC J Dennis - Langwidge
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"The flamin` cows!" `e ses; `e did, an` worse;   `Twas `orrible the langwidge that `e used. It made me blood run cold to `ear `im curse;   An` me that taken-back-like an` confused;   W`ile them poor beasts `e belted an` abused. "They couldn`t shift," `e ses, "a blanky `earse!                       The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!" You oughter `eard `im curse.   You would a bin that shocked. . . . An` the idear! `Im usin` such remarks about a `earse;   An` `is own brother buried not a year.   "Not move a blanky `earee!" `e ses. My dear, You `ardly could imagine langwidge worse.                       "The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!" Wot would the parson say?   An` `im so friendly-like with `im an` `er. I pity `er; I do, `cos, in `er way.   She is respectable. But `i! It`s fur   From me, as you well know, to cast a slur, On anyone; but wot I `eard that day. . . .                       "The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!" I know quite well that we   Ain`t wot you`d call thin-skinned; and nasty pride Is wot I never `ad.... But `er! ... W`y she --   She`s allus that stuck-up an` full o` side;   A sorter thing I never could abide. An` all the time `er `usband.... Goodness me!                       "The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!"  O` course `e never knowed   That I was list`nin` to `im all the w`ile. `E muster bin a full hour on the road;   An`, Lord, you could `a` `eard `im for a mile.   Jes` cos they stuck `im in that boggy sile: "If they ain`t blanky swine," `e ses, "I`m blowed!                       The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!"  W`y, if it `ad occurred,   An` me not `eard, I`d `ardly think it true. An`, you know well, I wouldn`t breathe a word   Against a livin` soul, I don`t care `oo;   Not if the Queen of Hingland arst me to. But, oh! that langwidge! If you only `eard!                       "The flamin` cows!" "The flamin` cows!" `e ses,, an` more besides.   An` fancy! `Im! To think that `e would swear! W`y "Blarst!" `e sez...  Yes! "Blarst the`r blanky `ides!"   (Oh, you may well throw up your `ands an` stare!)   Yes - "Blarst," `e ses, "the`r blanky `ides an` `air! I`ll out the blanky skin off er the`r sides!                       The flamin` cows!"
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