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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his8 g' l# Z. c: E3 B3 W' v- @! O7 @
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
" u" h7 ]0 N. Pperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their* v6 Z7 @' ` q" Z+ C
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as& m. @9 Y; \% m; k' [( q
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) e3 I6 n: J: Q' @: O: B1 @twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 X/ h& N* p: b
fight, in a small way.* @% Y0 P+ f$ W5 J0 M z% U
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
4 T( [) Z3 v0 j" `+ m& d/ b& N% oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the8 F, X# e, k+ B( A7 G
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 s3 j+ \! o& k/ \) p% S
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter3 G" @: c: R9 V- N' n5 |
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 N% y( A& _ g: H+ u: z
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ b# i: F/ @& B6 [0 Htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an- S- _; s9 B9 M' ?' b, W
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it& j( ?/ Q4 i1 ^+ I
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than$ g" B8 ^2 S/ L" }, c+ f
the x to which he had been accustomed.- ?7 S% T5 h+ x% g
" P' u }1 g& q. c! a'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read' N+ R# ^' {' Z: c4 W L
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
' {# q6 J5 ?2 d4 \5 x2 i3 a$ Fparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
9 t. x- P1 h, F5 `+ yit went x-ed.
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& P0 ^2 {2 K8 O/ m" T7 mNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
/ X; V3 T! m! D/ y8 }, f- ]reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:# J, `0 b& A' g
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
2 T, Q% E2 P( A* ?nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld1 A9 B+ U" o' o( U8 R4 U+ r4 \
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
: k+ @- J5 @0 C* O. B7 M3 ksx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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