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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his: A. _/ ]$ I4 \% T% [! h# E
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,. o& }. Z0 v1 x' B. h ^2 A
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; `6 m/ W0 t- Q% W2 p% `% f+ heyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as* l) z0 Z! V- ?: M* M$ }4 Q
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
! p$ G) h$ C) Y/ u& ~3 J) D5 dtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
1 a. F4 n( Q2 M4 i0 n" n3 F k' ffight, in a small way., n# M* H! W" k' V9 ]% a& N% ]
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in e# M# A) y/ J1 |3 H
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
, F8 l1 M' v f1 Q- J- o; x$ wfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost/ G" I1 K2 l: w& h7 h2 l. v6 R
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
. b. u# e- \7 D! fdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: d4 [( g1 X H8 j; P
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 ]! c) S$ V9 `. o0 y% u8 M
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
9 h/ Y o1 I; H& z; lhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it! `4 `3 Y: O( ~5 z5 _! p+ ]5 W
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than2 I0 {' N6 M- y' R
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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' G5 J2 O3 `, Y0 {6 l( X' {& Z" L'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
; ^0 K: f! J) Z. r1 d/ N3 N2 e! Ait over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy: L0 @% O, W, \ V; q
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
+ H2 K7 X" {9 v& g" mit went x-ed./ w- r& A1 l: D( Z* b
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
0 o3 ~6 c- P3 Hreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:( M: s# j) O0 Q! x8 Z: h( `* ?: |
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