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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his7 Q# ]" S8 I$ A: W
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,) f+ y a8 n* h5 ]1 D% K
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their7 d1 c3 r" X+ m) r$ a. ]5 T3 [( \
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as1 M& q5 i3 q: N$ R. k
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
" V0 P, w/ L( \+ N' k8 U: ptwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 l9 c8 }/ X& h, B/ n2 Kfight, in a small way.5 ?* q0 B; i5 p# m8 G# B& W
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
9 P" A( K$ e [3 J* _, g0 }( B- ]& rprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
6 m, J% ?0 t, G: D/ Afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost' L: G3 O+ _ G) j. c( [/ _. V
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
6 p0 ?1 B8 L' B4 `1 o9 {1 N: Fdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
" A3 ^4 e% e% }: Tsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
6 O6 Z( S4 A+ K5 Ttimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ V6 |/ j9 `$ F F0 x; _) u3 thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 a5 `$ e$ r5 g! h7 Eheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
8 S1 |% o: d1 `: A# T& A+ U sthe x to which he had been accustomed.2 {8 ]7 @& M" J" x+ k3 ]7 W, T
% _1 @6 q8 k" c. Q$ Y0 Y'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
7 R* Y4 o: `2 m/ `it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy% k+ A1 }4 }0 m6 {: Y& O" `
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
' W+ h. v) U2 Nit went x-ed.2 Z+ E% K0 U* y9 [. v* M! F
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by w. b( b X+ k H r3 I
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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6 Z. }) h4 K5 N5 ]" |# r: o7 e+ Knxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld3 |" Q, I' z% @ s7 W
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