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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! R5 B8 `' w* |0 hcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,3 ~. _+ e: m6 v; R) w- @
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' Z% y4 y, i4 S5 C$ Oeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
6 p7 M/ ^" n( X& M# X5 P& a% mis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but. \9 N* i0 B5 N0 a5 a1 ]# f. Z- j
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of+ q! d" s. L- I& ?5 C8 C- ^
fight, in a small way.. m, Y k1 L0 f9 w
1 P3 K3 w7 D3 i% J9 WThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
' f ^" H0 A6 \8 ?# Z4 Iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the9 y4 e! d8 p7 {* i# t
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost: R( K0 G0 I; |+ P( ^0 \1 V. B/ u
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: e7 R5 i- E* N8 Y7 m
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
$ h6 u$ Y3 q; x f9 ysuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ |: F& |; a8 ~$ V8 V! ]$ Ttimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an9 m c/ N9 l& @3 t# K
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ \, |/ r& F' `# E% T7 W; A' Sheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than8 l7 d2 N, b7 N# D# i% V
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$ N4 r$ W; J6 y5 ^9 H& {
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* Y3 i: s8 A i, d+ x; ` g3 Rparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
s2 ^: R* n/ H/ {/ lit went x-ed.
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7 w9 s+ x4 e9 W4 v+ \) tNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by9 C5 f' ~( b1 Q3 o8 B) m
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 q8 i' h8 @: d! `
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