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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
; G& s9 I" j2 b* A7 z6 Icase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions," O: R" U0 {6 y/ U7 w+ m9 s
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their3 f5 G/ y* U( z6 z5 \" u
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
f) l/ n! A5 I9 _7 A H& c0 Q! F" Vis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but( g/ p) S: P N2 g. i% B3 k" [
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of8 S8 c5 ?" p7 H2 Q2 H
fight, in a small way.* V- [ k$ J. d
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
. @' C* Q; q6 a6 s% F; Hprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the5 N) g" A4 h4 }& P" N
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost- K/ b8 ` o% T, r7 J9 f
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
6 T3 _% O4 a9 U" g( g# Gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
2 Y. ^, A7 m" N% ~6 [superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ I8 t; @4 M! X0 n4 z _times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
8 P8 @9 [8 { N" m3 {$ y, L! [habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it. x& c8 Y! k$ o0 |3 r# D) k
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" w* b+ t* c9 `6 X' m
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
# ^3 \3 [* S5 a- H. T4 z* Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
0 `- Q' a J0 U! m/ b+ D; @paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press t1 X, n, I" T0 i3 G# ]# L
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 s* I5 ]* r. A& h6 Y# z0 rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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) Q# M) v# X) z. Mcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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