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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his% W+ C( { [* q4 z; ^
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,' d& ^7 }7 v* v
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
0 o/ L( r( o1 H! o9 k5 heyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as6 R) A( Q! S8 \: C+ O
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but& N4 {5 O: k7 G- q, q v, P1 t
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of$ I( ]8 ~7 I4 k0 `
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
8 J5 L; e+ ~& [0 J2 G( n* \' ?8 `printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( C2 {* u! ]" h. I9 ^. rfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 J; {6 g c) V" I3 X% l
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: X5 p) N2 }/ _. J
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most, @* z3 s3 f" S f" k; ~: m3 U
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old" H6 D6 v# V' a( B) L# B" y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; q9 p/ K/ ]/ Y( M5 F0 A5 G/ K) Lhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it& f* L. h; S/ G
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" e8 P, W; a* A- t. R7 b3 _the x to which he had been accustomed., U' B2 s; @9 Z3 V# a
7 F6 U; y {( A/ Q6 o4 f'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read5 L H# u1 _/ y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! ]3 f) u% C! h/ r. h
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press. E+ \( c, m- ~
it went x-ed.- r# J7 `) ], I9 A& `- w, ?
2 q- x! g1 }/ F2 MNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by% b1 i$ O7 e- v+ h \
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:; d+ A3 M' _; L- F3 B1 V1 H
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2 @6 R5 z4 i3 c/ Gcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
7 r8 \' [' Y6 O+ B0 xsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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