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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe1 j' S: {! |9 A4 h$ J( @7 c

9 `& h4 @. T1 h一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.( m! u: c4 Y/ `, t$ \4 O+ r8 {
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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' y" O' Q6 R% s3 T% mI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his8 B% {, `2 u, I3 g8 d# \3 ]
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
; q3 T3 ~- [& Z2 U1 h/ F; nno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
: L5 u/ i; ]6 Y3 {section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
! u2 W8 @4 B' Y, [" S* `have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
$ R$ c4 x# y. [8 Jdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis3 u1 z  n1 m$ ]7 H6 x/ n
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived1 J5 |; f& N- `" C
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
  s- Q1 r" D# \years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the1 f  C9 O1 z& d& m# T8 E5 H  |
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on. I2 n! {; C5 @* M3 k( s
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found" {7 U4 }1 o% s. v1 e$ J2 H
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
$ C5 e3 @+ `- c% Mdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
& i8 M  D) R( x( gobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
# v5 w7 H# v0 l6 A9 o( {! }* Hhe unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
1 F7 A% m* s) R4 E7 yopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after( |4 d( G. ~& Y
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
0 j( B  m  p: G+ m1 vsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
/ C8 o' _6 i* Gwas the name of the new paper.
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4 H) ?5 Q/ w2 B8 i/ {& ^+ wThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
& D- H" d$ f' m( Nsevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
7 l! h1 m. ?  m& Tfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in  c  D# ]; q7 ]( {+ `, E) Z* M) y( O
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
' J4 I; a" t' E2 k* ~have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,) ^# ~3 W7 q4 z4 _( k
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
8 u3 A  B6 t; c' E. t( @+ D) j1 I2 Ngive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
# u0 A  s5 I) s* @1 ?! N# othus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
1 U5 E# t% E" l) E2 U3 R. w" @is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world( h% Q# V: K4 M8 K4 q# X0 s$ F
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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" s# |: N) u. Q$ f4 E$ |) V0 }  xA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
% v# _' M  W4 ?9 Lbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
7 O. ~7 K! o% U: lexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one( }* d) y3 j! A4 c6 F. I! h! }
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
  V3 }, q5 L' s3 S1 l1 b) [: TNext morning it appeared as follows:6 ^0 `/ y2 @& @; E0 M6 p/ a
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
' ]" k) o$ k8 L0 B+ a+ |5 Z3 A"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
% Z7 O2 l: e& |2 Itempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his4 }. i7 F* W% E2 j
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
+ \5 e+ q" t- `4 \! O- Y4 C4 Hnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
. `' Y7 c" }" m8 L' h' Wvagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
+ R- I9 c, R# w' C$ rO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
# z/ T3 r% n! ^+ egreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
7 w5 P4 d% {  C4 qis pitiful."', K7 o/ P& C5 z- d0 d

3 i/ Y8 E/ }9 d$ G0 wThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,, a) U) @4 r& o6 K8 J- N' T4 w9 H
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,4 b6 J+ d: r) O0 x
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon4 @$ V8 }& B- b( W* Y0 S
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his$ G! a; Z+ t6 }( e* D
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go) T; Z: Y$ |  J# l) q8 P
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would; d7 F; |2 V# }. s% e$ J
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let- q7 l9 D$ O, @9 q6 E5 u- b
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go/ e0 K  {" D, k
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that
7 Q# G: R, ?1 M( I$ Che, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
' `: Q, M& i! W7 S5 F3 m5 [paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel1 {3 ]6 ~8 ]5 |$ N
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
1 B( b8 M1 d; _# O- ^that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,7 O- Q# B. l7 A
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
2 L, Z- |" d2 L0 m; V: t* U9 xcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!3 C5 s, F& c* z$ u$ O
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy/ m7 X1 N' h9 {
could be.
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1 z- T. T$ D: h  GBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great8 s( v' |# a! C
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple, y: L5 U! k0 _7 A& v' u  w3 F( A
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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' w# ^7 C8 k( X, _% a'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
4 {$ C. t# f$ d* c% A* a5 E4 N. ?7 bthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
8 [$ S: v5 a) Z7 h0 I; L0 jtomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he! T5 Z& D4 U6 t  E2 P! g, f0 J
(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
7 X* f! t" ?% E9 B; }style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the% |0 z! f5 ]' {
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism, k6 Z6 O4 C6 k; y! h. W; X
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the' f" ^7 K8 R) _
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the. V+ l; i( c3 C5 x
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful' ~9 f  M; O; K
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
- O* }- u7 U- x$ ]4 }7 c" Ohyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
0 b3 ~. ]& t8 H8 |9 t; T1 R! |not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
, W* o# h  F- F0 ?5 ]7 G( Nservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"': N3 Q' [5 c/ G

) [/ W. f( w. lIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
% |/ y$ K" q7 B9 c; ~5 cdecidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
9 X4 f/ U* k! `. l' l+ Aall entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
5 x. W( j+ t2 Zto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
0 d$ F6 v8 _. hit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,( z0 W9 o" p3 ^: O& c6 k
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
: n: U  u& e, {midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
* k9 S7 K0 ^& ~$ B4 w! funparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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; M, [" D; ?+ _9 d# v* ^% k6 V/ ]'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another0 {- g% H6 {4 ]- _' x: v
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
% m0 [( T9 P& W% ?$ yout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
. \+ J1 J5 B+ ~* A2 \: R6 Gwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!0 N- }$ r% q0 X; [
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,. f5 ^3 x' ]( u7 f! v, |
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
, h% h, t# f! b; bJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
' N  K) e* Y4 Jowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
9 h4 W: {; \% J" Tgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
" s2 \' X$ U. o9 G: EConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
$ W) [* |  U9 G1 |  Qcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor4 z- G0 ]5 K; }' d/ H, J" a, \
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
4 t% ]9 o$ }% M- ?* mso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so," J( o# @7 S8 T/ u3 X4 p+ T
and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great# |$ {7 j: {$ [8 n; k! _
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
( i, b: d3 N8 Z. Wthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
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In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he, \: y% X9 G& g& Q
looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can
/ [! j/ \# O3 q  D8 Hdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
% q1 ?) m% x- X, v1 Bletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single  H  h; ~; @8 l7 M
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the( ~1 W7 J0 U7 ?0 B. Y; h
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing7 J/ z/ ^- e. a( T8 K* P. Z. J# ~
without no o's.'
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very; o9 h! z: h; `  b
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
# Z) U) ?3 H  \  f2 Tlittle one!'4 F1 o$ I" x* n
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'9 b( p6 E% ?" w8 I
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
6 [7 T3 L+ L$ W/ ~( rpurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
7 G, i. _- w+ n-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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7 P9 B0 r5 x) n* L" K3 h'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
' e& x+ L' \6 Y* p5 `I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
, G2 C: |3 J" `0 z! ]4 U# ~, Y! h+ gparagraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'6 _% n2 B( D$ c$ ~
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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. r# f$ u: z- Y0 ^8 b'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,') D# }; j# E  z
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in. j. ?6 L+ V  [* F( T4 n
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his" H& Q+ O' O0 o- I! P3 G- n; t
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
. y8 }) T& @0 p- n1 a% pperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their+ X) c3 M! C$ u& t
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
+ F: q: `# Q) R2 pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
4 g& d: p3 B2 P& i& F! Vtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
  D; x1 q, d4 V- X2 ~3 B) q% v  R  o6 `fight, in a small way.
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% H& V, T- P. d7 HThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ \6 L& C5 m- ^6 j' h
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the* p/ T6 Y8 K7 \" [$ u) m+ p
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
! W+ \3 E$ W9 \* zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter& s8 A4 ^; U8 h( t$ _
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 {& Y* ^! z; t) E: S+ Vsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
6 {7 S  n1 r% P( W/ x4 K' w7 D) ztimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an* S2 o0 j9 |) ^$ O7 p
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it; s4 p; U  H: I2 S9 _3 p
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than+ M* L2 @" h5 `
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 e3 x( `5 `: E/ K. X- W# s) b'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read# d* s3 U" y# h. w/ X1 H
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy3 ^# ~( X6 V8 v3 l$ j" z
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press. H  |8 w8 o* K5 A( f7 y
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
* {/ R2 o( |6 f9 e+ x" h% `reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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" T- x; e7 I  U# Q# f'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
& V8 b0 }) i% Ytime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
. J8 j3 g1 z( j- zxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
8 @: Q6 P4 z4 ~1 P0 dwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
8 t2 L0 k$ E) s6 `Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
, [3 d7 D% a5 U! c) h* u1 X7 vxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,: O- `; f, W9 a* m& g
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
$ h) I( a1 x$ P' I3 Nfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
( M% U" ^/ H- b, {* _- B4 {gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
5 ]" _. t  H& b" o; mCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
( F& i9 k: M6 N' e; i8 ]. ^crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,( l% z4 U+ c  L/ f; [  p
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
* w  s  \4 @1 b4 {: |yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
+ p' S- _0 f* v' {) I6 q5 v1 rsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is, o$ C' R3 m: G% Y' a, k1 K
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
. d( i# H! I/ L) C8 w. Ypopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
; m) E5 J. p3 s) _9 G7 v- Ehieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
6 W" q( C5 H6 S+ a+ `0 Z* g" kresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that7 I5 n' S. U$ E7 W6 I$ n
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell" J+ b' g9 c5 L( t# ?3 a6 ~
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.' z% i' d2 Y/ }% l+ S4 X

/ O/ x8 g( W( k3 P: A% }; KUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length$ Q4 s( h( Z+ k: h, ?
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
# V, ]3 d9 Y- s8 n1 W6 Yopinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.) x9 Y0 y* u+ E6 g
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
9 v+ y/ q2 M% r& vfancy.
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more." f& f# O& Z4 X& K$ V9 L) F. E

# L) n$ y- [, `: {: Z" EA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
/ l8 r/ T2 J7 V8 L' D/ W. Kgeneral way, his X-asperation.
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
/ h$ ^' w8 X9 p" Kand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
' j) N: _6 _+ p  b0 p( g5 etalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
& t4 ^& p8 `# E" }X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
* v" j6 S. Q$ }confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.( f2 P8 L6 ~) s4 ?
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
" B6 }% f  }: _* _8 J) Oobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.& S( u/ [. x9 ]( w

5 i8 Y( j! q) dThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
' N" Z- N9 S- ^  C0 V, b' }the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
# L& |/ y3 y6 b# g4 P/ _deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.: ^* g& F  ?1 v2 O  ~
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
' W- x0 ~* b- a( ^: v6 Athat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
7 D% m5 ]9 L9 N, n1 p3 m! [& h* hpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually& `* d( e+ B7 j8 @) T( _4 G
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
! n0 R; F$ z, |& O! ]consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
! |& i7 O/ d% z# E# Mthe X-treme.'
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