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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his" `# r6 O& T& g& h
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, A/ E0 C4 R" Q- [7 E* b4 A
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 ?$ Z! g: J0 K$ V- u
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
# t/ X5 H# }" Vis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; m9 m7 B6 {" c, @, ztwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
5 O7 F* t$ s* X* } ^fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
( L; ~: y- t. i' T- y3 n( h* ]# g# iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the- T5 {8 c* }. k+ i& v& j! a
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# A7 ~' d# R2 L/ L# b; v# c5 @3 |always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 K6 k8 ^4 L( q; |deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
) s* U% ~) W6 Ysuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old$ u! j! P% } } o
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an- G3 C4 q- W, Z
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it" D# @) K2 q9 a) M4 _% `
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than+ N# y8 s" [4 N! S+ O* A
the x to which he had been accustomed.8 `3 r/ R+ K" x7 F8 k8 T3 ?- K
8 {. K" T3 I0 O f9 o& ^2 B'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
5 g% x& o- C: f$ lit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
0 U" K$ }! q4 O+ M# i: nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 w0 d6 I* f6 a- n
it went x-ed.
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* }0 A( D/ L- x* p( o9 ~Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
5 ^" A# Z/ n+ ereading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! _8 p( S \: ?9 ]$ Y0 l
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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