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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his% u+ P; S! H+ f, q6 X6 P- o' f; K
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# V4 g. I) _7 p3 H1 }perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 f- c9 a7 t- D/ G4 d
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
, y2 C) i. r( b9 K+ m! {0 E3 Z- J$ ?is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but g* \( E9 H* V
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
1 J3 t ]8 Q( E& s# K( @fight, in a small way.5 d' |3 A1 w t+ }8 x
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
. E8 a" I, O# O, ?3 _$ iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
2 M: z$ L1 I$ i+ O# Nfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 W! L% f; J C+ [7 h" b8 A
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 [) N# `8 ~% H, a/ i! L& X9 ? \9 m
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
7 d. j0 K C* X8 E- p! M. z8 hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* S% |8 r! w# y' D& y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ R% z. ]/ w' f; [" |9 X# zhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it. U \( l/ z8 ~. } J' C
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 U6 X% v/ r, ^9 B. s* c* W
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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q7 }1 }- s( b+ m9 B2 l; x'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
# {/ t; f. t& u! qit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
4 X: q: t* v5 Lparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press6 w# H4 k: U: d I4 z; W6 ^8 `
it went x-ed.
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& `: W# ?& Y. e' J. ONext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
9 w0 o4 E$ Y! dreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:2 E4 G6 q/ [& |7 T
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