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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
. a0 T9 D: o7 k: d. w4 Qcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; D/ e; t% _) a3 Z5 @& o
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their6 K, A8 `4 m, y" K5 n
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( |* ? o1 A6 Y5 `
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
' l5 U+ a+ X, l/ B' l) \twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of/ b! X, w9 e! Q" U& ?3 f% Y
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% f; Z! W3 g% F. C' w! w) Q1 qprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
# E; [; e& r- n( ?: Q9 b% c9 F+ @fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost5 Q8 V& I3 L8 l3 a
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter r1 D' T# [5 ]% B8 R
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most+ o- z7 e/ y4 m8 b, f
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
4 L, n& t3 T* ]/ ytimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
. ?$ `, N: B7 [8 Mhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it5 d, ]; y0 s, Y* n: U$ [+ v
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% M+ L' G5 W( o' I1 o3 V" U- l
the x to which he had been accustomed.# }0 O+ q1 @4 ]# W
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
# t i4 t1 v) pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- A) v7 ^- q2 S: ?0 V/ v6 o K; \
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
+ r$ F8 h4 T6 G/ zit went x-ed.% i+ `6 o- B! C2 @8 d: p
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by: X5 H4 ]/ R# @/ D0 w R: d: F$ s/ f$ C
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
# g- w$ X% o' W0 Rtime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
{/ E, Z! Y9 x+ vxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
0 w' N* s! z, ?7 X* J |wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?5 T& M: f0 {' m r) \! M+ x
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at3 a0 [3 H- E D" W3 J1 O
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
& Q; w7 L' i( }% q; T& [0 kJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a8 q! W+ c" a- i
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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/ H- {$ o6 v! w; `Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
/ B$ _ t5 s+ K4 g6 N }1 Ncrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,% ]6 e4 x' @1 b' O9 ~% _& B1 L
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld8 m0 K1 g" L1 ~5 Q7 W8 ]& @: k
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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