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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 A! N& B; D3 Q3 \6 o7 r! X1 t y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,! h6 u+ {* N U+ i& Z$ j8 D# \: s+ b
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& }) a8 c0 m) q2 J4 _
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as+ w+ u/ ^: X* w; B% y2 R
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
9 z3 ?0 D! L6 D' P4 r& K# Utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 s* Q |) |& C9 \+ i
fight, in a small way.
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% w) X; L- v, z4 n3 e$ t$ E) vThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in7 \. C+ V7 x4 q- K0 L! a
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the# T: {& R# _: F6 Z+ l
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, {0 b/ ], N5 g2 b, Valways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter; ]' ^7 B3 C! L# C- f% f
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most# I' ?. s9 Z% U
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
( F4 F: G& @; O3 e0 rtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 G! U e/ x, l, h" G6 }habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
: t; f& o" ~) F- j: fheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than! ~7 T7 U, J. T4 Z' f6 _, s. |9 W
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' d3 i* F0 X' E2 v) E: V
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& O5 ~" l( h! r- E3 o6 kparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 I5 }9 |* J b* V: }7 n. J% g
it went x-ed.
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. x: A9 s3 r h% ]" ^Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" x8 s0 I, X3 g5 d1 v ureading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* O; Q5 c" i3 k
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