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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
+ R* L, c/ {' E8 n0 O" vcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
4 H% t( I; p) |- b+ t' Jperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 L Q& @" x. e" ceyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as9 t% g$ N* _, \1 E
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 C7 `( U, ]% Q( ptwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
5 ]/ `' ~" p# I3 r5 J+ O: Q1 sfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( u0 j! F* U) v5 _
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
_% U& W- j& gfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost7 R E- a. M) m1 Z; r. L( H) w4 H4 o
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
5 x! o- j( _- l0 l8 Qdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
6 N4 k! U2 i- W& Q K% `superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old+ T ]. Q8 t" }+ L, K: a( E* g
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an+ [5 p( W/ Z& K- J+ K
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ P# h! v+ e# v" E5 D; {$ a# E; _
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
& W& G& x/ ?/ g0 i( Zthe x to which he had been accustomed.6 E0 N* r" I# [1 t0 U# g
$ W( V' [' P+ Z' q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
2 z5 G9 L, Q- ^& Git over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
8 [ k L" ]# m: b! h, k* _paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press+ \; D( L0 T! W/ i' r5 B% i
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 U$ R/ ]" B" m1 `3 `- O* Y
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* j+ d& L$ _5 W% _& N
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