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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 C% x' ]: I; G& a8 t! r
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
7 } {* d1 ?( N& o9 X9 X3 I4 `perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' b5 o1 E; _: z& j3 Leyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# \/ |6 o5 E. ]; v; r0 N( f
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; \" S; O# I' n" J- J
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 o; a- l5 S8 ^6 ]) R" k L" |fight, in a small way.0 M% e, _! ^& C# ^5 ?
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in0 I7 Y& x% Q: _
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the' B: k# v# C0 ^; M4 k9 J
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost. s6 B. t+ n4 Q- C
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
" z X; Z) o* O. W9 S) N8 tdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 v: z, Z) j5 R9 I5 I" G' _$ qsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
0 O4 d- P6 T* t6 {% k$ I- Utimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
y" q! w6 j. `+ q* R5 khabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it w. S/ g. |7 N, z/ g
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
+ n+ g" Y: V4 E8 ]; P- c* cthe x to which he had been accustomed." \' o0 Q* N1 R0 |! J7 I6 ?% S
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
/ u% Z& [& w) N6 K$ Y+ {. F* yit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& @9 j( _. c- r* Y2 y% `* Iparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 S3 j0 c9 s1 a# B$ U
it went x-ed. Z6 w+ F8 s4 u6 c: A: f
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by9 q) l7 N( l3 f w6 ]
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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