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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
2 k* K y9 f" `; y( |7 z% p) wcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
2 T- B$ A9 r$ B# k F; K2 i+ `' Yperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; A! U5 r! [+ T0 V2 K% b( \eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- R1 V" }" M; i" b' P" k& `is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but* `) N" q4 R" F6 F' D+ Z+ m
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
0 D- B' } I% e7 E4 j2 \1 I, hfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in7 e' U3 H2 ~! c/ l
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
" m/ f. J: }2 M) f$ l& z9 k% F* ?3 gfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# G9 w' ~/ t6 @( f% s8 y# K7 Balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter1 B9 I! r/ W c$ |9 u" n
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ q9 t8 l( p7 d& M# R2 p1 u: S6 Nsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old# r0 j8 q2 ?7 b1 H9 }
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an0 I; w* i9 d4 k; \4 k
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
& S# `& Y. g* k- B6 c( {" V8 Mheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than j; U5 g# q h6 W( n+ X, z
the x to which he had been accustomed.4 c7 t1 w; w& ?# ?
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
, ^% O4 v' w, oit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy8 ~1 p! v+ g& }. |/ L, R/ ^+ q* q/ W9 U
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press' n8 q9 m6 i( I0 A9 g
it went x-ed.8 s" P: h3 | K. o0 e! {4 \3 g; M
0 T; P& z/ p7 g, V7 u0 pNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by8 o% E2 z& K& `) x! C! {- K
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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