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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
" s% w2 K( s" V; Z0 l0 f4 Y! o8 ^% Z. Xcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,6 L, |, G, W) ^2 `9 Y" B$ c
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their: B' _* U' z& K* c: C& |; h
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as$ X+ F$ P, k& R6 _! e+ a8 K
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: f: V) U% X) k
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of" _: r& Z4 j9 I9 d/ W
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
( }! K6 n- n7 b+ xprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the0 ?2 I1 }; a: R& J/ y9 A
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" A1 e' B4 m! R5 n% J! \2 w @
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: i7 B7 C8 q# q
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
) \. ]( ~+ ~$ y# Z* Q) |superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
# Q' \1 X8 Z7 L& u4 ?times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
8 d0 r) N7 t# ?7 [7 uhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
2 v5 s) G* {5 [* k4 ?% X# Sheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, b7 U# T% }1 k( _0 F& _' U
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 read
: d, d5 p# R# @- Z/ Y: Vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy2 r4 p5 l% s+ d" v* c
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% {5 k$ S- z A! \! U# O3 ]. C# ?
it went x-ed.
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4 [: T2 M( s/ BNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
0 z7 h( |: ^3 zreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:/ c2 e8 f8 i* {- Q5 k" t9 d: y
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! V7 B2 s& S% R& u' Vxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,. |/ K% m3 Q; d
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
% R; N1 Q4 I' Z$ usx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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