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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
( ]0 i- k) o' {- G+ L0 \case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 ?' g3 ?- T' n. y3 Qperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
- c) o8 ~5 B7 s+ f% B! ^2 M6 xeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as9 E' m. c2 l) A# L
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, G) [! S/ T* f6 Mtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
# j* E: l+ X: L9 sfight, in a small way./ z: s- h5 K0 F- k: _
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ p, S$ k3 c' L! k
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
/ n, }7 }( E W1 G% j7 m/ jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
6 e }9 _: a5 ?' J0 p0 L) Lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter( \- L$ a! p& N6 |1 I3 G! j
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most! N6 N7 ?0 r% g( x7 D' u" {
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
6 D9 C' Y; E* ]7 u, O, _/ ptimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an& y4 B d/ ?) j5 ]
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
' a Z! Q6 ?2 G: p1 Xheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
- L0 y, z( y3 M- }; Qthe 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
- p6 l& U; z9 c5 k. n8 {it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy3 v/ T" V- Y/ L$ Y# ~# N
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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0 J& m/ J# x& B0 x1 D& A* f. ONext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: [" h5 G# T5 }, n+ ireading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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