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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his* N1 F/ b) d# q8 e( O% n
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,9 n! y; z0 l+ S [$ j8 x
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their! K% e- n! ]% m$ j' e: s/ V7 E
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- [' k3 R. c- Y. I8 \" i( uis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but" m$ c& q) j0 ^" F# H
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of. ^2 j/ b' r0 O2 m$ d
fight, in a small way.
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" t1 y L1 [ ^8 l: _ a1 AThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
& R2 A8 z& h* q, y" Wprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
$ m N1 [# E9 A1 Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 ?; A2 U9 u4 W0 ?8 e
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
1 w0 A `& h* S! |5 S& ^5 f( n" Ideficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ j$ M. e9 r* D8 D+ |& U! Hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* @4 ~9 \3 s6 e' ^
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
( L" f5 w5 ]4 ~: ? `3 Jhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% X7 P' v& H2 S6 x( r/ G
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' A9 `! E3 B( U0 X8 y5 y
the x to which he had been accustomed. ^. b; B* w0 i( ]8 w
6 _# s" a0 `8 ^# r5 e7 z; N'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
1 I! {/ t$ K+ zit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) P# b, s. S" r4 E) r# V
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press+ o* W& \+ H n, K. k. b# f
it went x-ed./ d7 ]$ ~3 C2 b7 g7 y9 l
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
@/ Q7 b+ I0 c. U2 C7 ureading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:1 v( ~. n2 c9 i4 F$ }
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