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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
' H) I8 E, R! |2 B2 x, fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; N/ O0 y' i+ t5 c! G& y
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
$ @ h. Q+ q4 v! P7 seyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
6 b0 t8 V1 p, E! R6 Dis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but, M* Z+ Z3 h8 q. q {* }5 O
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
. r& o1 y1 o: L. c$ ~) M zfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in" _% Y) \4 D( i4 d. K
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
9 F4 s9 H4 |9 y9 @" d/ e/ tfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# o' r- I. F! B$ V" D1 nalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter. h; Q7 k+ R; p# s9 i6 q
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most$ W) i+ T& i' W8 y
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old+ Q Q! u! n- l! N2 ~: X+ s) `9 l
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an/ W9 e' u4 X; k) a# x
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it- @# D2 d5 W6 q
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
& M) v8 Z! \, W9 w7 o# H$ kthe x to which he had been accustomed.# h& J" Q$ s7 j6 ?
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read# j( I$ m& R: y& {5 ?/ P; ~5 l
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy4 j$ o: M% L' U( Z( u
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
% [# J2 d- p+ X) oit went x-ed.$ A3 T8 D# W5 j0 s( y
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
0 X9 ?& W4 V* n* Ireading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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