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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his& q5 ^: e: T8 L s3 m
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# X1 k6 U5 y [' Jperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
2 d6 O4 w/ }0 @" t4 \1 j1 reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as" \& x' \+ \: a# `" W* e
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
: F! Q% O" h) \* Otwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( J8 ]& @" g, G, D$ n" K
fight, in a small way.
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; _) X- \+ }$ j, |9 hThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
* K5 t0 z/ D$ \printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the5 p _4 M& I+ W" T/ n+ C. t2 E2 |
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" d; X' ^9 w' B9 G/ }. O
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
# p& O& {# ~: c" { kdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most) H! N% f* I i( a6 k+ R5 i; a
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
( Y% V3 ^* v$ v. c; \times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
+ Z I* Z0 ~5 x) [/ n! v( Ahabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ e/ u7 a) g( m
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
$ O5 O! b, _4 ^/ @. [the x to which he had been accustomed.
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L; G% m& n0 {7 @'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
0 v4 p# ?6 q, [) x C* ^; E% ?it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy% S& n8 n, e. g. W9 h; O% |) q
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press2 i: b. }8 @6 J7 W7 h- ~! ?0 Q
it went x-ed.. X9 H6 H; u M3 B" i/ S: Y: Q; P6 ^
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" r6 ^& }& ]9 X: a" V/ Lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?/ K+ i" e+ Q2 T& U) L& \
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
- ^( o2 d" o2 k$ L1 q, s! Nxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,' G! K, M) d8 [( x
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/ M- f& E {8 y; ]. |% j2 Hcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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9 _1 C3 n' o6 C/ ^ M' nyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut; K2 N7 k k4 z! m7 F X
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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