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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
. j& b* q/ l# ccase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
) R; U% a) u ?6 ~0 r/ Qperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
# W! _: ^# h3 q8 N8 m- q% z4 leyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: [1 A% Q; N9 B1 `# R5 e4 k' j8 Tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
/ }) v. }$ U e- {" N! u0 V4 Ftwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
3 Y8 r8 q1 ?7 Vfight, in a small way.9 i! R: m* E/ z
/ L9 n8 }# s( eThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ f; Q9 x; f6 j4 j% K2 s( Z4 G
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% D3 a/ r$ I2 U1 I
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 ]8 a) L+ w0 malways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter+ N0 U: s; S" Y
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most- R' b6 e T& N. K5 Y! `1 k) X
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
; T& o; I7 y; T1 S+ \9 ztimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% N$ p/ [8 T" I- l& M; \
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it+ y/ m: T* q% T" |0 R. `
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than; F2 {. S# S2 V% k( c& l
the 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
- e- O5 x, J: A0 D; }+ {' H! P! ]$ Bit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
) S" ?* X! r" j1 aparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
, @9 l- i$ H/ R' R" T3 Iit went x-ed.: { s: D9 I7 a( q
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by" z: a$ e& K& Z8 P% [
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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