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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his, b3 {! ^7 D. {* V+ S! |7 A
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,) T$ K) T" c/ q# T/ K; o* v
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their1 m* O( `% X& g6 s4 b2 O
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
/ u+ T4 r4 [9 A* H$ _" Bis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
& X8 v6 r# @, V' ~twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 q! P' n! _8 h$ d$ M: B5 A2 Efight, in a small way.0 _* I1 n# \& A0 U" `
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& p$ ?7 ]- o* t
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( ]3 @! N* D. Y$ z. L, \
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, n2 _; |: [; B- Y& h+ x. D calways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter0 i( m( I$ s# l n4 y
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: I2 V% z; b3 b# F/ j6 a; F3 Usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old, h/ x4 d8 _6 }0 q2 A
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
: g/ |) ^. M7 A2 J9 Z/ p' w4 |9 |habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
, G9 _- h, ~% ~# G. n* q6 n* e/ |4 vheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than2 e8 C' q* P+ d' K* P
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
# L6 M" ~) `% j& t, Fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy4 I: t, I3 Q) u+ _
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press' t' W# n5 J! ~2 G6 |' K* p/ |
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by+ j& t' M- P1 E% k' V- t6 w. V
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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