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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his z+ P+ [# i/ ^' y. { j) |
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# y) i% e0 q3 P2 N1 }perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 s1 H6 v; w9 K1 g; h3 m; deyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as& H+ {' k9 e+ S$ R8 D/ @
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but1 U) x9 D# S0 U9 A; j
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
' } o- d r3 `5 zfight, in a small way.1 x* R1 O( U1 S' L
& X' h1 x+ u; N b8 y2 SThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: R/ t( z+ ?3 B& d
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the: Y3 a8 ]! d4 I h
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost- ]# m3 B @0 X0 }' H* A" [
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
, t! h% D( A2 d5 xdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most* F) @5 L" v& L: _. \
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 K9 c" B8 H: e+ v" }4 b8 z
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
' }7 L; J0 }: v7 g9 K# x; F- `habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ [# }: V2 w" }9 P7 ]heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( a; a, A1 p7 Z( I+ k5 W9 [$ T5 k
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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5 @* ]/ Z) h9 ^# U) n'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
4 O; U' k n$ m2 Rit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
' |+ I. C( r! m" B- S# e' u* j9 B" E: rparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 u6 r$ Y Q: p' I& h* yit went x-ed.
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& F2 v5 f- U6 L2 z7 M/ lNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by1 o* F# H, j0 E1 j
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther8 \( k; B2 v8 y6 H& F ]$ i
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
2 ~1 j& I8 M2 {) j% xxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
+ A" x+ T3 {7 W+ [# p) W1 swxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,9 g& h4 z, `7 z: R/ B. k3 |! i$ e
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a( y+ ~% M, o: Q8 g0 A; Y/ S
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld1 A4 L% }7 s( h: Q+ Y
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
5 a& U4 p: i2 HCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur5 F: V" e, e- C6 g5 I
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
$ g2 a& h. c% {3 v' ]" p# Dnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
7 Q3 \9 v1 X) v2 _yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
/ V$ W4 E9 m/ h1 o0 ^/ K( S! isx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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