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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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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
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6 R# N! C1 N1 y7 [4 Y# wAS 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.! K1 K' d, J" F' U
   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
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
  J$ n# B# {( u" H% c  Amind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that/ s, a5 d8 V/ C. }6 t6 a& W
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular( X2 Y4 J3 j" z- ~) B5 F
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
+ e$ s( ]! T/ ^" E+ Rhave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have* y' J3 N0 J6 P$ o" P
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis8 c# k$ e5 |, O+ w& |) T, T
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived8 ?' ]# {3 F1 B' D) r
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many! F: Q0 a- k+ }! n
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the1 o9 H, Y& z+ V0 R: C/ p
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on$ l6 O# v6 m9 x/ K: b/ [
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found, J- y9 Q5 q. h) r* z7 G% Z" Y
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
! S" p% G7 L9 @- c! k3 |* s6 Mdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for4 ~5 q7 Y, I# M
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;. f' i9 h9 H9 i5 ~. p2 ~4 h
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
/ {& ~5 f$ @9 Kopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after% a* j. r* r3 S+ K! Y- f( A4 a
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to) _! z. u2 j2 y4 _9 D
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this& a: x, M2 p* {8 F/ x# B
was the name of the new paper.  A' j2 d( O* `
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
, \9 \  s' m# x2 v. Asevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
3 J5 Q' h9 \  T5 Z) ~" O/ _6 lfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
' T- Z9 _/ `( C6 Bparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
) v: C) V0 m4 u/ Q. Zhave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,9 v/ v: @! o( }* b
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to5 U" U3 k6 l' U% H: S% b4 \
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs  t9 _7 ^. D" \" a5 Z! J
thus:
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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" l) C" U. ~( \! u: w; X9 v
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world" n8 D! l1 R5 X5 l1 Y' J9 t
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
& X& c! L# l+ @, ~; W+ Rbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
: C' q$ R8 e! ~9 i7 qexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one: f6 n! O1 w$ k" ^5 L
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.( P/ _7 o' z& F4 g
Next morning it appeared as follows:! d: J3 ]5 h6 |5 k
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
; E7 P2 Z: F8 n# f5 j"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,8 N- ]1 r8 {* H* I& w) F
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his) _( j5 J1 U0 ?' F
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
4 P5 r7 ]1 G% [/ n9 jnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the4 N! V4 E( r. g! I) ]! L4 m
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
; u. e! W5 p9 B5 R* e7 o9 x  ZO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a5 L( a7 s# W+ K9 F. \
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it3 X1 d+ x7 F( f! v0 H$ u
is pitiful."'
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' `6 B2 {+ ~' \  D* U# rThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
& E! p7 y- v+ g6 z8 |I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
# c+ N) m  h" _; r4 lhowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon& L! D6 ?, F, m. b* ?
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his- b0 k% Y5 H( X
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
# M7 W8 W1 s7 oBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would. h# d' {9 x! |- O8 b% J& I
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let# y+ P" N- o" R7 k, P
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go' h! S( H9 N* x' R- @- S1 v7 r* X
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that; ~! B2 O. X: X# w4 ?
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole* d. C  P' q# Y; h
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel3 Q4 ~+ S% @* n& r
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --3 ~- K6 ]; j( p) W3 i  N( V
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
% w% N* @& p9 G  n! a2 z$ eBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the) h# o0 @0 d. J6 M) G5 a+ b
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!. S& Z, p9 v, _: G4 I. G: Q
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy: i4 I) H5 Y& L' U- V  z
could be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great- P2 M# W1 F( a; D- L5 d7 G
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
! ?+ n8 f5 B2 C) Q% q- xbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:  B& z9 `% E( ]6 t( {
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
2 D( ~' x7 I  mthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
% u1 u  n, n+ ]tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
, M8 x( G4 z7 J  \(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
! [9 `) O/ h; t' Bstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
9 u% n+ ^* V1 |# f# U# b; q3 csupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism, Q  y7 T4 S1 W. X7 R3 r
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the3 P' t7 q2 r# ^. {: I$ Z  Q, @
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
' S6 w7 O7 j" }& o/ f$ f1 ^, b! R"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful) z  b$ x; X# }3 z9 z
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
0 c/ _9 k8 {7 E/ D2 T/ ~: T2 Chyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
7 x) j2 F% d7 A* O( u5 qnot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
! v' U/ g* n/ Z: g6 K# x, M# I0 S- V& i6 [servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than; p' J1 @. t, F) o& k/ a3 M
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to+ E5 ]7 R9 \  {) b# u
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go$ m7 c' Z8 o* f
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
; k# Z; G  e4 s1 L4 W  P/ Sit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,7 w2 V% K1 c1 s$ o* j1 ]
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the: \0 }# `, w+ |! w5 I5 c( ^
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
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, v  ]  N# k, {$ D9 L' P+ U'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another, X6 T4 G5 o( i4 d3 Q+ w( y7 [
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
& n1 Q  E. L4 ~: D1 Q4 tout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old  {! r6 y9 j( o, p
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
$ ^7 ]1 Q/ t) yOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,& _# @) p. _% ^% c
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,# [) j" P/ B7 `, h5 m
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an. p. o- K  v1 t* J
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,+ I1 @8 ]: w2 G! s, I  I8 H+ J" x
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a" S6 ^8 z- ^6 y. f( x# O
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
, c/ v+ @) B2 U4 C& |6 wcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor8 n8 M, h( Y( ]/ Y$ b  v8 ?! [
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
- d/ Z8 R9 `0 v* W9 tso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
3 k" r5 s' T; z" Cand 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
# s! Y. T; x  L3 ]Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to% X. @0 ~1 h4 V/ i0 g
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.& p! e4 K% Q8 Y5 R

( ~0 B4 [+ [5 G4 z7 b8 G. DThe 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
3 ?0 T( [. D: c+ P: Olooked 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
  ~: v3 r. x) i" Idescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
) X/ r$ f: q) S. y1 H4 l* g- rletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
1 }4 s# q" I  c4 |little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the+ d+ P# s0 b( b7 g+ P5 m
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
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7 V8 q3 ]* B, o& s$ _! W4 L2 ~'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
) r, ]" R- z4 O/ t6 M) X$ G: yangry at being kept from his bed so late.
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% i. s: E& }9 c9 R'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
7 u+ z' h+ m( }* i6 v& }, clittle one!'
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2 M# `6 j0 T/ h# V) D: ^'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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'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.'
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3 \6 O3 m9 t) g. i'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning3 D( j% V- F; m0 J6 N# U; {
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
1 P# w3 h6 U: [- j1 z; l-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,8 G! o( V- V- p
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that1 }9 {( N4 o1 Q5 d5 T$ c/ v! Z1 a  i
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
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'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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' E4 u; i7 V$ Z! u9 f7 u'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
2 u/ }" G$ b" fsaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in& Z7 K" X+ d( t( y: X' d6 P+ X
some 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
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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 his( ?$ }! K+ J/ m; v+ f( Z0 f$ `- v
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,& R& n) B' h3 A% Z
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their2 q1 s0 |5 Z& M. y' Y
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
5 N3 u9 X' R- ^. @) His just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 C8 B) j* x" _2 ~0 b
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
9 f- T# s3 h; }- M( \fight, in a small way.
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& U& S% x$ s1 S6 h# c2 K- }The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in2 E6 Z2 }1 `% g: m) p
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% `" h; B4 Y4 V. r8 B( F+ |' i! [. wfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 L+ I6 m2 s8 Ealways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
- T, B7 g0 `: C/ w: f6 A" Tdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most3 h* U0 l9 t( ]1 ]# f) E$ n
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
5 }1 J& h+ g& P4 o; a- t% p6 Ptimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" H+ a' Z& p7 y! ?habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
5 ?; R! g& Y: T( zheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 T2 _  x' l* s& F2 Tthe 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
. n2 t, ~$ C% d/ R. Dit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- u6 v. `- M/ d5 h1 E5 ]
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 E! s& ^  l7 S  i0 H& {
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" r# u: R( Q5 b$ ?! U+ @9 A" I& ^reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther* g0 Z: t. b, x! H% T& j
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
! ~! u: w5 v- v- L. Gxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
0 L1 o7 H! Z6 G# e0 |wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?* O( b' f( x: M3 ]$ ^) o
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at" U. y/ m3 @/ ]* f% g# U" c  L
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,3 o7 E7 s3 z, p3 E& F5 ?
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a" {5 j- ~  ]8 y" Z2 x( K; a5 B
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld4 \, A  f4 d; _9 ], X+ W) O
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a- |7 j0 _: T7 O- o
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur  ]2 H& e/ O# P, K) F* R" b
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,) {, w$ L) d4 s) z: h# v
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
7 R0 S) v4 i: }' G, [yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut. |4 f/ U% S8 Q% {
sx, 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
6 _) H" R, [  X  P( c8 Anot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the' l2 _  w2 ^1 p6 A
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
! o2 X" O4 w% Bhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
; D2 s0 F' v; d: a9 V; Kresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that/ Z; X( }2 F- u8 D6 C
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell: D9 A7 _! b; B' c1 m5 Q$ ^. \% T
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length: W: n( t2 ^' T/ C2 E( ]
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of+ p6 g" O' M/ N# o& ^4 D& O& |! n
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.. `+ _8 Q. U6 {5 {* E/ p, k" f, @, r
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
! [4 C! q& J, m% p$ K' w5 f' Yfancy.
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. |  Q6 F2 _( ?5 D7 R" A% A4 TA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.5 _; P2 M7 Z0 {: N5 y. o
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a! e4 U- J% M# s
general way, his X-asperation.( ^- n9 W, x% w3 z& G- R
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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: J5 ~/ F+ l1 @7 f0 Z! N( C" Y$ W3 ]4 UThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;& n1 V4 H! m' k! t3 l8 w! C8 D7 \
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
3 {/ F3 G+ X5 ]7 y" Z' n0 s* jtalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,0 P- S  s: v" `2 d7 ]
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician9 ^. a4 L' K; V' l- b5 m3 U1 ~
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.# L# T# K) R$ W) `
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly2 k. J# v+ s- _  f
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
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The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
" i4 L' ]  P6 B% c5 S! sthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
% |& n* t4 `; |7 Ldeserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.9 E% o  t' F4 B) k- a4 G0 B; g; o
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
! O/ g2 P0 l9 ~0 ?! vthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
' u" [- p9 T& p# s% ]+ |: s+ ]persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually. Q7 Y7 ~9 }! K- `2 g
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral# W$ j: C* j/ C0 w3 U6 i. E
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
4 u: x; y( H0 @, Gthe X-treme.'
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