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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
, h' w. l: A1 C C/ A4 gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,2 L# F2 @# Q. I$ ~: C2 U
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their$ p8 j1 f2 _/ c1 U y% y" O
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
I. A; G# r5 f6 wis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but) L: f( C- h" E7 _
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
( t. B5 G5 F, K6 s8 Wfight, in a small way.
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' r; q, H; ]+ P! \% cThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( f: t$ @5 A0 f5 T* S0 i! B) ^
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ D5 ?: b8 e+ `/ g2 |; D/ y# u
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
" T3 x; f5 C: S& G7 valways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter' S: X. ]: F) a. l
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 G8 w# h& r2 A3 [
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* L' n1 ?/ i# q
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
' w" @ a2 L$ f$ P9 V$ qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it( r3 y0 L/ y$ R* _1 V
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than5 J# M8 G3 L: K( ^% d0 d
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 R# E3 \" E/ D' k'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) R3 s6 s" P: o' e Ait over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* F& X* v! X7 {paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press" B) E6 r! x* W$ L* Y6 f
it went x-ed.: I6 r# g ~: G& W8 x
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
1 J6 o$ G. x) ]9 H$ Qreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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