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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
- e& G0 O) D' Lcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( Z% E. i5 U4 o: ~2 q7 xperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) l$ I9 G `' i! meyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as C: U+ B- |; Q( E
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 j" O% F6 U; M8 p9 rtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
% p' ~- ~! G0 z+ b( Y4 Vfight, in a small way.
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+ _0 A' k) `* n* x7 P- U' q' QThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 u4 V! @" z' n% F1 c# y3 V! ?printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the) z5 y2 H ], v* ]
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( f0 c' I* R& |. W# lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter' C3 R1 U) A. l6 u) F8 P3 i
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
# V4 U/ ?* i! C p6 W- r. F8 jsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* Q- m0 J7 q+ z6 H1 @7 e
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% A, E. V4 M" B9 [$ S( u9 n
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
* I. {* m7 F8 _8 J! X7 ?' s4 Gheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
7 O& u8 k) U' P+ Z8 ^the x to which he had been accustomed.- X8 x' A) I* i
& N- \ Z) ?9 c. M: Q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read7 w+ `& X) o( {) P, _% E
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' U3 `0 v( |5 X6 [3 \" K
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 Z" W3 h$ i* c+ V3 o
it went x-ed.
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; \; N' ?; u! k; g$ c$ i4 @" rNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( O% ^. O! k( `8 ~! s+ z, L5 L! t& d
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:% o S7 v$ T$ f" Q) ]) p# \
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