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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
2 v: g% z5 ^* b& W* B) Ocase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
7 ?, M+ p* x0 y' Y; U( |perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
+ r; L' @3 w5 k; y$ J2 ^3 feyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 e1 l, x) c4 E9 ~' b! X4 Ris just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but5 [3 l. _" o4 B
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of0 Z9 p2 r! j: n7 _6 k6 T) _ s
fight, in a small way.
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( r/ F' E$ S, ]3 [The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
: l. U' X5 {$ z5 L! l: ~- Iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( c0 H' v" S8 |fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost$ {0 [6 ~, ] r
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter( w- ?3 C/ @* T2 [ q
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most* M$ @9 J; Z" c9 h% ?9 W, u$ b
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old/ v* R8 I9 _8 J/ L3 o3 P$ M+ u) U
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an' F1 p9 g* \# y9 F4 [, V
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! G' a1 J$ ]& X; A* |4 Q; [heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
2 @7 ^. u' B" }$ G+ z: cthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
' H6 k& t7 A" L2 J+ }/ L# Wit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
% K# r J, k; C+ v2 Zparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
- z. S( B6 h! n$ o& d5 z3 pit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by6 I* Q( x, [. ^
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:, R* K. b/ z0 o+ y! n4 H; P( Z6 v u& l
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