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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his3 M5 N1 q' Y V ^
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,4 X% d0 b1 N; d. V) E
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
. l+ T$ O- B5 ]/ Geyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. j# Y7 w1 {. E8 J0 [9 c: r5 }
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but8 L; D5 k& K+ w( ~7 u+ g
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 x! h6 U9 C, b7 G5 C
fight, in a small way./ s& q! K( u& _2 z, o3 Y$ d f+ q
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in. o( A( b* t- l0 K# ]' D; M
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
' _: f. E- q* Y' P N/ o' Dfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
) ^; V9 [' p5 H3 T- v/ @* N- Dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
5 D$ S7 p: v$ `6 Y8 ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: c3 Y% R5 Y# o6 J; U
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old6 |6 s' E, g- n4 G
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
: @0 r, N& d6 a4 D0 Lhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
# O" @2 w ^' ^6 x1 c+ ~heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 d. M% S( {4 b, {/ i" D( n
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
A. w* ~! T L# O( O. ^; \it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
" j7 W. \- _6 q3 K Z: b* ^paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
* t+ j2 d$ Z. _, f" W' H6 s6 Lit went x-ed.1 C: P4 A/ e) {6 G8 {, S, t2 {
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
+ ?# G% U" A' Ureading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:0 w, z' z9 T* B9 U2 X
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