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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
' G2 \8 w1 N8 r, Bcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; _$ m: B, Q5 J6 D( P cperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
4 M; m/ M& n2 R" t* {* h4 x1 Eeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as4 w4 V K4 Z% Q6 M' H3 D
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ F* ]7 G" l1 |* Y5 O
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of# G/ w; t# f/ A4 j* g) T# w; J
fight, in a small way.6 h& s% S8 c5 X9 T b
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in- t$ U6 y& m) ]5 Q! G h
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
$ e# \' L; e$ A6 }4 pfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" H! ]! v1 E. Q9 K3 L" ?8 {# r
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
D& E# q M0 t: m/ t; N. T) ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
# v+ |* b1 ?% n1 ^superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
5 U* ]0 m/ F' Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an8 l+ V: X' E; P) b
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
- g1 `3 a" p, A$ D& `! V: @heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 a& U% K5 O5 J/ ]
the x to which he had been accustomed." h( j! K8 @: _3 e! `, s. p( t
/ E8 j) k1 \; b' {/ M4 `; ['I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
5 Y( P* T0 M' G5 Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
9 v y7 S4 T8 z3 v4 W" eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
$ |$ L7 w+ D" M. |- Qit went x-ed.' A9 J3 C' |4 q( l g
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
3 Y) [' B7 G6 Y. `. Z, vreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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8 T3 ]* r4 D) ?xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,$ h, j8 P& n( e3 E
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
/ H2 g( D* K/ {+ V" _! mCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
: ?7 p7 n, j: H; S/ F9 Dcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,5 _3 H/ H! b8 S, }: n
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld7 K1 ]8 p- M1 D$ F
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut u0 f; z- W0 p2 ~9 x" J
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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