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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his' w( v9 }" }+ S$ U$ ^
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
1 i$ I2 M9 D' G uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
0 u4 K, [' U" `; x3 l( H+ R. neyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as0 y5 i7 S( Z4 C+ S6 }% w
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but' f3 G5 S5 |0 ?: {* O3 B) h: @/ h
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of) X5 {" ~% h6 E$ C
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in' l" ]+ c9 D" J* B7 X
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
3 k$ Y) Z6 W. q6 w+ ~fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
% A2 V0 }* S9 e4 |9 H% ^always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter- X. w, m2 w1 e3 z
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
- w# v+ V3 X# gsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old/ I# ~) s- `9 z1 [5 `( K! q6 n
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
' i. _1 p6 X& K1 O C! Yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
. F6 x$ @$ e4 L! S+ P) r8 Mheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
/ l- b' C" y: T4 \ |the x to which he had been accustomed.* M7 @* h& L7 ?8 [5 I- w* E
! A( }( ^5 \, F5 m4 w3 }'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
. y) ]- t% ]4 p4 R" r; Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
1 y# T6 H s) Q, g( P: ?paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press. S% \5 r- o4 ^+ A0 l
it went x-ed.* ]1 S. ^. H3 T* r& n" M+ N
, V, K$ A4 U- E7 w9 a3 G: ~; q' mNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 V" |% o8 Z9 f& {
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! V* k) Z( ~8 X8 y- k
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