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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
8 p6 |( `( F, rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,# ~; C6 b/ f- m5 }6 G7 S
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their: Y! \. n$ D {3 v% J- ?
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as! l, F9 \: t8 P( k; e f8 |
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
% Z: _, _( D3 o/ b# |twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
- [* ^% p; _9 T. Sfight, in a small way.
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2 D I, ]" y) |) hThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
- M: ^) R( @9 fprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% p f0 G% L* Q& z5 F
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost* f" H0 m% K k6 h& c
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
8 Y* [3 n) E$ V4 y3 p, edeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 [: z! I- q' hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ \2 o1 b3 c6 e8 E8 [1 \0 jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an! _; e+ U6 Y' @8 [$ e; p. u( E2 {
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
$ u, V8 \4 ~, \$ \, @2 _$ Wheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
, a2 H3 r! A7 ^7 h6 v( Pthe x to which he had been accustomed." [& ]; N r8 ]3 O
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
1 p0 L3 D: q {7 eit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 d5 ^- @) r* @ V0 {! f0 K
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
- z# B5 y9 p* C' Zit went x-ed. a6 O( e4 I7 c. o& w1 M, @) q+ s. ~
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by* }3 q( v- [2 }( z/ S1 f/ z8 K9 U
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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