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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
' w, d# i2 ]" \- Ccase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
0 _; u5 b2 p$ Yperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 T- j. E; i$ ]5 teyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( u4 S9 y2 A: B `! H* |9 nis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but1 h4 p% V1 u6 n" G1 m
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 {* a5 \7 B: X, F( W
fight, in a small way.) L" W- @! i6 y& C/ F" j
6 {* u6 S! f* |) ?. I5 ZThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in4 }1 T, @( M5 a* E3 T6 p4 Q$ l' _
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ H. I" b0 q) [' _# ]4 M
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
! f2 b$ t! B1 n: \+ z% w4 Balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
* ~) S8 \2 d2 n* Odeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
$ D' s$ M: s1 i! {) isuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
( z3 _% r, o$ l. Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% E# N. T& x+ Y2 n4 ?
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! p( Y# ^% ` V( D/ ~% `* nheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
0 |: s! T0 ]6 G" dthe 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
, {) z( v7 ]( f$ @it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 H+ N9 R; H- y& |/ O
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! E# J3 T2 ^; m7 B' |it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by4 v# r7 B) i, `% `! q" X0 ~' ?
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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