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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his2 O6 @$ ]- X/ }2 |, e6 l: j5 X3 l
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 s4 x+ x* Q& z9 l Iperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their# N6 s. L( l3 [: A- W. d3 U
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
0 ]- F) {7 y$ ?4 U4 yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; \1 @: Y5 G3 _# o7 |! i1 q- i! g
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in$ ?" Y8 j- x1 r
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% `2 c8 B! I4 k- b" E5 y7 J
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, T' Z: J1 {, V" Z* p0 Q5 X s2 Q7 zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter) e7 I# E' }! g! L: l5 _
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 Q7 f8 z9 {7 m* msuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
1 {0 R% n( p/ M% {9 N' ?times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 D3 c2 q5 C. v. B m* m$ ]habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it5 p3 }: ^7 \; N+ T5 ]& A2 B
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than& O: w3 u' R# [. h1 q% A
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ x" x2 J4 U5 ^it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
) w: T6 \* Y8 i3 mparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press! \4 }; ]- B! {. |- W4 C+ {$ a
it went x-ed.
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# I# T! G3 A" J3 X2 ?Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
& k; \$ z- o% h" Sreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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