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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( x; K2 o3 _; y$ M8 `0 H( g
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
: }5 D& a- Z+ O/ I+ j, ^: hperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
& h. ]3 K: Z9 u1 q1 B$ xeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as; V' ~! _/ k" \8 ]% R; V+ G
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but! ~) g5 N" D! x' v! R
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of0 u: \7 F' ^# u& T+ L& u, G
fight, in a small way.; }1 e( P6 B# C
( c1 E: W5 U! I6 R( kThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
- d/ U2 ]9 K7 H3 U8 z) D3 zprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
" b( @! W# V0 Tfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
* H- L: g, n; m* Xalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ m6 B5 P- O9 Gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most, `5 S* C5 d2 j
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 b, d7 o+ i7 f9 g4 ^0 s9 r) _
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an' X+ B ~ F! h* A2 E( B$ ~7 Y
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it8 J5 s7 N9 h2 Z( k- _
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
) o3 h, }( p# s# R! Rthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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0 G7 p2 g* N4 X. n2 S+ L4 T* b, I/ k'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read5 ^: y) T2 t R1 O! R& n) T8 }
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- a, S4 q2 Q1 e5 v/ ?- ^paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 A% i( `. F; A+ R, i$ v3 Z- _& C, F$ Ait went x-ed.1 K$ e9 x% f/ k; I' w' @0 M
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
, l1 `4 ^2 O8 ]" j; j2 [reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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