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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
/ N" m* U8 h8 U& b( I# u( ~8 tcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& @* S: N7 ]3 h h4 G* l. tperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their7 m8 \6 m- {! N. x* g
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
; n+ P% M% S/ `* T3 X* A9 Ris just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: Y- E- e- J# \- o: x$ |
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of4 B$ G% B5 F9 C E0 X% U1 v% a/ Y( Z
fight, in a small way.
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* z: e4 s0 X' {- x BThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in. V' ?; G1 y' [: f3 Q8 @1 U! N( j0 l1 _
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
. X1 y a+ ~$ pfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
3 v0 E& |# q! I) o' R6 ralways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, T4 V% j3 d( v) r
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
7 V% N5 V$ |. bsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' g' i2 Q4 u" l. [1 H' u4 W" ftimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
* ^9 d7 T) R7 F$ Vhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
, _& Y+ y! ?0 x* p! _$ |heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
5 G, x; R7 X! I8 d$ z; Qthe x to which he had been accustomed." p1 J+ s, U4 H; P
" s4 E/ H Z6 S/ N'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
9 z9 F5 f1 x" Nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy* l% T7 y% l! G; D; B% i, c: g7 Y
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
X8 Q8 i/ x# X4 ]8 A+ ~# `it went x-ed.: \& z. s" U: }% N% T. [5 \
! b' _7 d8 T, BNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by. b7 _( ], ?$ H/ j$ |& L$ h
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:2 u8 w/ g, n) y6 W' C5 A9 w
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