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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
3 S3 Q1 [- r G3 D+ L3 rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
4 w1 B. b. M2 s3 |perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; U4 A$ j& O0 R9 e0 Y/ l
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as2 t/ M+ F& z' b7 k1 L7 L9 B: Z8 _: |4 w
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but! a; y# H# m6 D3 g6 }
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
' ]+ G: X3 L" ^4 ?fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
/ u. G" }, ?9 cprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% L( w/ [& x+ a& @. _fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 U( Y3 D5 n9 W$ X5 H- k
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
' G3 u; F% O, q/ B7 R7 k- @deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" \0 V& V$ \' z! k0 D7 ~
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old/ @5 b1 W$ }. n; b- ]3 n4 H
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" H) u; i6 R! V( w) r9 f8 U, Vhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ K1 t8 I. _( S9 a( ~heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than/ R8 p7 S7 L, _# y# @- @. g: |+ h
the x to which he had been accustomed.+ o1 w# N$ V( P Z2 x; @0 S1 f" I
; b$ \- P1 D, B- W3 y'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
9 ^ k X+ I b; l: F: z! O# x3 kit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy7 l: T' L; N4 w7 B. ]- [) \, x; o# `, }
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! x, f5 ~" w# X/ T b( _it went x-ed.
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, Q9 o4 Z! U: l$ I% K, V6 u4 \Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by4 Y" `. ?9 |* i! t1 p; n
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" J7 w R# n) Q; Z& n, D
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
' q) `' D* z) ~1 y/ W0 a* z* lxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld# y4 O! b6 ^: U3 Q
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
/ @ Z$ `1 {9 } Y( g7 w/ }Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a" v; V( S. C' {6 k
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
$ L% t4 F9 |: cgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
( R9 j6 M# |2 I9 h0 TCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur# O) F+ ^% {& T' U& w) `( ?' I4 q- ^3 Z8 ]
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,; @6 J0 E" Z# m, n2 R" Y
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
7 f4 E9 M# r$ n+ v( H7 `/ \yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut# X7 E O1 d) p D3 y
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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