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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
$ t1 v }! q5 ~* u" {1 d: tcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
" j$ ]: y6 P0 B: e. S. Pperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their7 T }+ Z7 N M* f
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
# z% r% R; f8 e8 `is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
% U/ ~" n2 f+ x0 f; htwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of, K, K* ]+ [1 b0 r/ ?) V. g& {" a
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
- K7 ~4 a0 y/ Q" G$ z- ?# [3 qprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the O* c0 g7 J" f( u2 ]. d% x
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 M8 A# ]/ X7 Z- q
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, s8 f3 X/ ]9 \/ |) J
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
3 _" C0 t& O) |/ y& }superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old6 _, M, h% w4 c* {7 b) S/ B4 ?
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" r8 s' [4 w- I/ shabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! {2 D& L* E9 o& U Q; m& Eheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, Q2 t+ D4 \& |$ s$ n6 _! {
the x to which he had been accustomed.: N* c8 g6 E4 H* [
% }0 K, Z) F' D- p8 A'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
0 b. I4 `4 Q) Z9 Vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy9 I2 f' c/ ^1 t: H
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
, _3 f# I3 P4 Zit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by: }6 f; j# Y; ?0 i
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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