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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his: V# N, Y8 |3 ~8 k
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 _$ C; P" e( E: uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 p' ~, p! s- M6 B$ Q1 Keyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( P/ k1 f ]- W! F% [
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but8 A5 `5 f' B3 f& u
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
5 t$ R" d9 j8 \3 l. g7 R2 dfight, in a small way.0 P& q* O: A9 F5 X9 J
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
9 P" S5 r; Q/ Y6 n2 ~+ Vprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the6 n- V: _* a9 J
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost1 N) i. t; T8 T: A4 z6 e
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter) z9 `- Q2 R, `' ]$ Q
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ j7 ^8 h) l! G) e6 d) Csuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 |. @3 P" c$ `
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
3 d- I8 j5 u; W8 Y' Thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it0 C- T+ E( o! g2 I4 c& N
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( K4 `; r6 @* r9 q' V: x+ F2 Pthe x to which he had been accustomed.8 n: _) S$ |0 U1 E8 o& l/ A' ~
/ k( w: D/ s5 Q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
% k. L: v* N: I x* Wit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
% L0 z- G/ Z% G3 i) ?paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% P: L+ t% c+ n+ i) k
it went x-ed.
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/ w P( j6 P4 @7 Q' E9 vNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by& _; X6 o+ R3 c+ D: T: k
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:( _3 C8 C) F0 j0 n
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
9 P$ w3 w: T* Q# Y2 S6 k+ dfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld: x, Q3 M) c( l4 X
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut+ H# y9 k% R6 E9 d4 K5 j9 k
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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