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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
. \! {* d9 W; |! N1 Wcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
! `) Z2 S# L& R# o3 Xperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 |0 ]- y% d. C9 peyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as3 r, m; r: m; G3 L B4 ?" h
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but3 M w' A. K" u) ~
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of# }3 ~, K7 K5 _' p; Z+ E @
fight, in a small way.
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5 @- c* x' e, a8 B: o. nThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in5 ~. V( e" w* X% U6 Q
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( }# g8 M9 J0 w) b: _9 T( [' Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 [# M# u4 s* k( Zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ X1 V% w% _/ \deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
; I8 _5 H4 K8 C0 ]/ R0 Jsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ y1 s0 z7 P2 `times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) z" x- Q* j3 n8 @habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ P4 ]: S1 M- u" t/ q+ O- L3 Z, K
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
: A4 r( s; U. p4 J5 k L$ d, Athe 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
7 I! N/ Z% M$ K, W' _it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ |1 Y- A% g# H& p4 U T
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 b% R# J# V# N4 G( j9 M
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ h2 |. @/ P+ H |6 M
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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) C; G5 F2 G' t( S, I- ?& k7 y: Vcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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