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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his4 `' b! E5 N& _
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
- `) z( z% h# P: x4 I9 p" S* Q9 [perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their" h8 _& \5 H) y$ b1 H0 k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: L w! O: [4 ? A* |1 g/ f$ M$ nis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
0 `# L! ?5 r& {! q" w/ Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 q4 `7 O5 k/ w G- h! D+ R$ }6 A, q
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& w8 ~ e! [! B5 \4 \# c# [ t
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
/ ]: Q5 V/ N5 O8 ?& vfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
" V. y2 R& \0 p( `- d- _$ i# q/ ealways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter5 F8 ^, u/ [$ B7 r1 }
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most* y( W6 W# _# v! L( J8 [, p
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( x* _& [4 B4 v
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
, a5 _. w3 Q3 b# B4 thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
+ r$ ?+ h, u2 ?' {heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than7 u; H% ?5 }* Q" F0 l: E3 G0 B- w
the x to which he had been accustomed.. m5 n% W3 u, u1 |) e
' e: m% v+ [+ L5 l) g) l'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read/ i: U& A" r! r' {- ?7 Q
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ E; Z! f( Y) h1 c; U$ B: g7 D( d0 V
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
& H3 ~% _$ z6 x& }2 c9 Q$ K# Z! nit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by$ O+ k3 {# _1 _; a4 t+ S
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:/ x7 \" n: `/ e7 c& \8 N
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