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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( D1 G" r9 X4 t
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
0 r A2 H" e' g9 O0 z7 Wperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
. y. Z/ X" j+ O+ K& ?1 v meyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( J6 u, l4 T5 |
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
& a0 x2 o+ }7 a+ J% q- Ptwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 k4 ^% q# q8 N" ], y P- d
fight, in a small way.2 \7 {( Y- r) p/ _, N
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in* P1 G7 i( o" z9 e2 o
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the* x' ]1 j" i! D& F7 M, U
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost6 w6 T/ \/ K" s6 x H
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: r. L% \/ L3 F+ s+ a+ n
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most; v/ x$ ?% S r) X! j; [
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
/ M! l4 e' S! `3 i% z; gtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an. z% o" `: ]% `7 B
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 d( O, l. b% y* l0 nheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' v! h4 s0 g* P
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 read8 J! w; o6 C+ U3 U
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 C4 T4 G8 u; A, g8 {3 E
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press7 l; l; ]. }6 A$ M- P
it went x-ed.. j- [7 y j8 c! F0 h9 V
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" z( [/ C6 p! Areading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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