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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his. F( g' u5 |) y9 _4 K% t* \* Z& \
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
G) \: N# n' A8 A9 f( ]( p! bperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" H' a b2 W+ c9 L! _! c& D& beyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as* l0 N1 ~ d" d+ n
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
" S a a6 H+ w, U8 ytwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" V+ s: J; J* D) b3 b8 x9 y2 z+ ^fight, in a small way.
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" U( I; P( l: }7 P \( TThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in8 }9 T- G# K7 k: `
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ h( G7 k. f% X) q
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
5 r' z) v0 D/ s) s" ]always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
" f4 Z' j7 a3 bdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most- w1 P( V# ?2 f
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( F# b r- N0 L* l2 {
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ t! d" p3 `* u5 F- I! y" \habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 I9 k3 g, L0 cheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than/ c! w6 [; r5 S7 d1 {
the x to which he had been accustomed.5 O6 I3 q# R' i {" I( ]6 h
- M+ \- P; M4 [- M7 }1 ?6 g g'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read, | z: L2 f$ ~4 o/ p; H
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
( s; F+ c& @3 I- v3 a+ Iparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 q4 y+ f' G7 B6 _! T2 c; N3 Eit went x-ed.
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7 n) I" X% N# B& o/ oNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
! |- u+ M: G/ |2 ~reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! R' ~/ I6 w3 Y1 W
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