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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his! V7 d1 g0 R/ J6 Y& C. f- n
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, S& s. z3 B+ f/ }0 |+ z( t" d
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& O2 n1 Y7 t5 L% C7 m
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as5 s+ d0 X- i$ ]( d) X" o% o2 O
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 Q: e9 h+ o# Y" X. Ztwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
9 q% [3 N" H6 V" C# J: Mfight, in a small way.! n- L8 _* ?6 C7 _1 g7 c
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in$ N; K" c8 p& c. S! L3 z* p
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% p! Z% E: X3 E+ e( M1 U5 _4 bfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost' w# ^+ }, b) C8 {- I3 n
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
) U' X b1 f/ e) R. ^" q; e8 Ideficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
3 J1 W1 m5 E5 Psuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 N. b8 B" M4 y6 V* Z' k, N, `
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an3 G4 T+ G" e& h8 G9 D) }+ e& }1 N1 X* G
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
* [% A# y( T2 W5 Dheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
* V- M- k9 D3 G- K8 mthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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3 m" h5 J; Z2 K3 m- ]'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read/ q' s0 p" B u% {8 i
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, k7 N9 e0 F* k) X( ]8 ^% K
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 b0 ~! z* j2 M, U3 R+ W
it went x-ed.. `4 B5 O3 b7 h, a! K
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: u) ^* x5 T& W9 p' o Lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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