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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe
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一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑 4 ?, }" s4 x+ |; x, S! ?
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AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.) T$ }" ~( k! [9 r; S
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑 * T3 i8 W' C* ~/ M2 ]/ P+ d) r
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
5 t7 h/ u6 D: e/ o* U% I( Rmind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that# d: y( \; N/ L$ Z
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular" z6 u, W* ?' X2 n- W, ?
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to2 K+ i5 j( e1 ^. v. r
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have# X2 r0 n) A9 `9 f1 R4 k- k
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
9 j8 N6 V. b; e; Uhad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived1 k  g8 u: P2 X- X( M1 _
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many! A7 m; |6 r; V2 O
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the2 w# J- Z! `+ ^, l! B4 ]1 b2 Q
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on' @; O% U/ B$ f; a* M  J
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found* o6 [5 t* @, I% F+ Y2 V
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
# U1 T. ?% U2 Rdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for* R7 o& U4 y( }6 s3 a* D
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
  @9 z. H- k4 `# Che unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
* {) D% k) h6 i6 {opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
+ y4 j! a& d, this arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to7 [! o4 K8 o: W& a6 D" h
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
  N0 E7 o( R5 b$ \; L) \was the name of the new paper.
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
* \9 t6 `# D9 Bsevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
5 p0 w3 g- F  y. p; c' hfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
; P! h$ ?; q  [* l6 \particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
1 h2 v3 Z- F+ J7 Ghave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,7 O/ z: Q2 t8 ^2 ~& w+ y3 K2 F! _
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to7 t# I$ Q& E5 K2 {* ]: S
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way! ^) R, i. y' R
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
+ |! @: D0 N  N8 E2 ^4 P8 `$ a5 ?coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'" {+ \. F5 o1 u) N
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a$ O' L+ `3 e: {" }1 ^3 u' O
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of9 @- R! T6 e$ }  d9 T
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
: L1 ^: U/ C& O# vawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.! l4 _. J: l5 m
Next morning it appeared as follows:8 t% p9 m6 Z' U7 D
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
- v+ B) r- E( a, |"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
) G+ z2 ?* p+ H) b+ H: y- ^tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his: \9 D3 K, f. N" ^" J6 P- i
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning9 k: z: n9 s- v5 l! F/ m
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
5 U8 U  M) p# C. U1 J# Lvagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
- b' m* A$ O: ~0 X2 x/ vO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
$ q% ], E0 Q7 N0 K1 Ugreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
7 Q/ O' u2 L& j5 tis pitiful."'0 w' `* u8 X, `

0 z/ p: G% Q  B* ?. f# w; nThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
" J& G2 W& Q& h8 T) W- o9 n: Y8 g5 zI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
8 B# _6 U- `) K4 {5 }; h" [) ohowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
+ y0 M; ~$ m& P6 H9 @& Z. ihis integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
& K; T: V0 z( A3 W; ^9 D6 pstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
6 D4 D3 a* _1 W8 ^- Y$ P7 p# b: lBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would  v, K: P8 f  v" ?; [; D
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
  e% t. `; a7 F" C0 [him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
/ ?6 R+ y7 O9 C3 u7 g/ |& ?; bBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that
5 W: ^0 J# `0 H! C5 h! [he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
' s9 t0 L, c) ]& @paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel. l! l3 c& e7 E& _& W5 R
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --4 k! n( P1 E/ C% C, G& ]
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,: O1 h. i+ E2 l& R/ n
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
1 X5 o  ]/ ~$ W. O2 U6 _; Ecaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
; J& C7 V9 a# }9 x5 v) e9 \The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy6 P1 i- g  h/ Y8 @* B- r' a
could be.
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1 L) D' [& m2 `2 m# D3 vBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great! I) ]  e+ N% s& |* q4 W
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple( r/ n: K/ T+ t  W9 m
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
# x0 r7 J% M$ {; R: @4 Ithe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in5 c% z  H; }6 c: I; q7 ^" H
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
- u. W. c7 C& D7 W(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
0 M8 Y! [" f+ Z/ L7 \) ?2 _$ nstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the, |. b( `9 r2 n8 ~
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism) o6 ]3 |7 C* g  T! G
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the; g! N) A, k/ f9 I) f
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
( \0 j. b2 x% L& _2 m) G7 J"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful: C5 ~( Q6 x" k/ i4 K1 t4 e3 ~0 r
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the6 ?* i! {% y8 o! }8 [" {' Y
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly+ O! m4 T% Z0 A5 L0 s8 `* K
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble' ]9 R1 z) g4 d
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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% p# B) a; H$ oIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than1 n" D0 P7 s2 s; o% Z, e& n  Q3 _
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to2 ^  }5 G* k! E
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
( T& {6 ^5 N( h1 A2 p5 E$ oto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
; X0 e; A. V9 p% W% E2 oit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,# l8 l( |% a- {2 R9 A  j- F
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
) d5 w( ?9 y3 E; W5 l) q! Vmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
/ @+ B- ~$ b7 I& Vunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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) H- r! u9 y- O  f4 N& r* g'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another2 r: d4 S6 g% A+ ^/ t
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're: r8 J  ~; x5 U1 d7 N
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old, l) `/ M- {5 u
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!* ]/ O" V# R& T& a' a) w" {/ T
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,: Y/ ~4 Y! w' T6 H0 R' l
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
' T( ^: _! p: b( pJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an9 N- C8 z* z+ u$ G' s
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
6 r; X2 {  v0 ^* r/ g: ]good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
% o& P' p  E* ^8 R0 r1 lConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your# v* |  q' W# X5 |8 f( E
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
8 i7 e! y% p( {growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you) t) C5 {9 T) V  r8 s
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
% \9 S$ A3 N2 o# j2 Rand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
1 q! O4 Y( r; Q* s' i# F+ |Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
1 ?# u& t9 Z6 J5 U! T+ U. rthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.% `( }! X/ a" a7 v4 [. m
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
4 p+ J  s( E/ vlooked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can
; Z" [" G: j+ X; {6 g! H& Qdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
, h/ S6 k7 a7 j3 a- Eletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
5 W" c5 @3 S1 T* x! wlittle-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the# y5 r. m0 j& K- T2 m5 x  E8 s
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing" o; p' p+ X/ o# G( E* r
without no o's.'
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9 ^7 x7 D% n; o/ D# i3 J'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
/ ~9 m# c. W( E- Oangry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
8 z5 P: S* V# |# G. R5 @little one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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3 t2 @  w7 x: W! U* Q* E" O'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'; v: Q' s6 H( X2 G- a. d( C, `

" {; ^- J% `3 h8 s7 b# c9 X'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
5 C& }  V9 \0 `1 E5 jpurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy* b& x* Y) s" h7 }; k) g6 s
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
0 b  y( W$ n) d% v0 R1 a; d0 Li's .'
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1 B; M( v; ~* N3 ^9 N'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,7 y5 _4 L+ l5 I5 s
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that$ c2 v, z+ h* A. }) S
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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) K8 t) i, J! C/ m: ^/ u'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'. _5 F1 n0 Q' M& P) W
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
2 c- A- m  A* t6 q3 ^: N: Nsome other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his3 L9 K8 Z% O2 B% L9 m
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions," `8 q& }% T/ ?: q( t: x; j$ h
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
. Q. w+ ~" s2 S8 Eeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
$ E/ l% J1 w1 E0 c5 p( I" Pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but% v/ V, V  {6 `# c
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of& s( [7 m) n2 K1 u
fight, in a small way.
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8 D1 d0 \/ n4 @: ?The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in3 K" B7 B+ {  ?
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( K8 }% Q1 O0 T: Z8 }, Ofact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
) ]+ @$ H- B# u- L+ `9 zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter" j( {& ?1 s1 C  ^  y% Y0 l
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
2 O' N1 H# _( c% d4 Usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
0 |- z2 u/ s! O% Htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
6 C' T7 X7 A3 X' C, rhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it( G- x9 s3 d9 @3 Z8 K
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than2 d$ V5 j+ x. e4 q
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 read0 F% o  ^9 P2 g0 P  W
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 H/ ]5 D0 r0 p" \7 X$ C' b
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
' i% ~  y4 z% X( L4 P# n9 Eit went x-ed.) `$ Y% C1 q3 }: _
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; V4 D* A4 C( Areading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:8 K  ]4 W: `) O# b
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther1 T  t" W+ B6 m) U1 ^3 \( P
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're# m% X) @8 Q/ ]& D/ [
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld, }2 B8 |- J+ u
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
! K' X' z5 O/ B( K" }3 z( HXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at, d+ Q; j7 O' u' r' s% J
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
" b  t; C6 C2 c& y" f% }& YJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
; }" P- b* e6 [$ n" efxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
+ ^# j, q, s) K+ r8 Q6 Qgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a' [2 o. P9 z& K6 s5 l
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur+ Y9 K# t, s2 K6 W( g8 p
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
8 E. A' W0 J# i  W+ m& `" t1 enxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
- d! a+ i, o( C  n. r- Z4 pyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
8 }: k, R) H: |# h9 Zsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
8 p: u' Z8 N/ i4 z7 q3 l; E- N! ?not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
' {# C8 _/ ^6 Y6 M9 ?, Kpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the1 Q/ i$ D2 E6 d6 j( b2 M4 J
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
- g6 F9 [! V& D- z/ Eresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that8 n; ^* z5 Q/ |3 P
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell$ J+ C; x* E8 L6 n* W5 O
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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1 g, o: q% d& {( W: _1 EUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length6 _9 b' A, o* W
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of0 M3 X( K; v1 M" y
opinion about this unhappy affair.1 w9 Q0 H6 w5 ]* I1 W' f

' a& q  P% h  E& E" L3 g( L& cOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.( O! u8 D9 _* f. A, B9 f

, N8 D4 f  D/ U. g* m1 z1 x/ IAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of% X/ V# N: Y: Q. v9 ?/ u
fancy.
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' y3 P3 E: u  I2 E% YA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.6 U9 x  s  J2 m2 o

! o0 i2 {& m! P% M" GA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
: O' o. ?" t9 Xgeneral way, his X-asperation.
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! p5 b! E4 b! f1 l. V'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.; J* \0 {! H& K  |
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
* B) U5 p: [- o( E3 g: aand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some3 h! j! ?' y7 g: L# D* J
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
4 [6 ?3 i# U7 S, C2 PX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
) Z2 ^: K9 D0 l1 p5 nconfessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.0 i: C2 x! Y* h3 _- s
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
. |2 u) B+ @- |# \7 C9 }) robserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.8 X1 a, F0 S1 c

8 ]( A) K& y: z, S3 K. tThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
. X5 i- M9 k& `1 Dthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it8 L" i3 K' ?8 j  o
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
* K4 K7 ^8 H  U9 z" s. OHe said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,, I# }9 c) P+ L" ~
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be, n/ t# x: I; l. a
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually8 u' f! [1 l+ `) ?# F( }3 y
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral/ k& f6 q' p4 o, o- V) \
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
8 |; B9 ?: I. H$ E2 u0 Z; w5 Mthe X-treme.'
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