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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
) n8 }8 ~4 n/ jcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,5 v a. j |2 Y) ^ \! W, R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
2 h( s: A- E( L( Z8 r& h! m9 c, deyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
/ J& ^7 D$ h' A6 O2 Fis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but6 O/ r8 q+ @0 \0 ^1 X# Y& V
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( N6 c! F3 h8 F+ A' R) }' X! o; X
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
( P% Y3 r7 }+ sprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
/ [* n+ ?6 F+ s0 {4 R/ k$ L0 @fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
$ ?" I/ T: x! h3 r0 D1 w6 \/ g$ Nalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter) G) W* A j: c9 ]0 `
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 t d) T1 P3 y/ ]; e$ \8 s4 Y3 asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ y2 M& O. g6 |& f' H* Z+ jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ t4 J0 I, S4 a9 V2 e. rhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it& j" P& K5 Q& L! D' J4 R) \5 }
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
- R0 A- ?; Z9 F* g; R$ Athe x to which he had been accustomed.3 ^4 _! ^+ P# h6 k8 K; G% {
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read8 J/ B5 g" k6 w7 V2 G* s5 e
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 E, V4 b+ Y4 j
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 |. N0 o% V8 K% d5 j+ [# y
it went x-ed.
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) M. t$ f% T' C% c u+ ~$ wNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
1 L% p6 b/ Q/ o' k/ \$ Rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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