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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his2 P4 N( K+ g9 x
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
* Q. B, q& W7 E& ?perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their$ X( O( ] q" s/ p* n
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) ?/ `$ K8 [3 ]- g8 ~- pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, R& Q( s" V j* j q9 }twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of7 y4 Y& T0 N# [4 h# _
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% ], `, f. F' L9 u9 ^$ ^printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
4 Q" |0 U% L: q% \" j" Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 X# k: E) P) N* [7 k5 f6 X$ i. n
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter. M& F9 e: F5 V$ l6 \
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
0 c' D4 D E9 ~. f$ z! |* j4 X7 \ usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* U- ?; Z$ {1 C' p& a) E0 D
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an2 h/ p2 M; J# h/ A8 S
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% g( D- J9 |7 Y, {
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 I: v( `1 l, V) t8 ~8 S
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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1 d* x+ U X( K7 Q0 }$ z2 b'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read' z2 y, q+ }! P# e# G$ g
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
$ s2 d6 a) ~1 u, Eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
9 V( }4 |* u3 Q1 l/ c+ hit went x-ed.9 w0 e" N7 D9 Y5 P- @
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
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