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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe- Q( t  f, A5 @6 d

9 C/ l* P, j# ?一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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9 R  E, a" X' BAS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point." y% W+ Y/ t0 X8 b3 ~; [
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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# a- S6 \/ M% j' p  II must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his3 ?3 s, J( U* |) ?5 G
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that  G; f5 s% ~+ ]
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular& g; t- }( e, B0 {; L
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
# |  f" a9 F5 k6 E+ b" |have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
( M0 s  @9 g. p; Zdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
- i5 x7 b5 H0 F: j5 ^" ohad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
. J2 }- {8 a! i* Q0 y3 Na gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many+ G3 R9 ^# U: m8 h! `
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
. l  j; F9 D2 t( A'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on# M; A/ d* A# a/ H+ \1 v2 N
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
& B& G7 T6 c1 u& o! Lhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he! |2 l! k8 d* S6 z
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
" L8 k4 _; L: O' N- {; x( uobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
2 Q- g" @! R% R$ N7 Z, ?3 _he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
9 J0 M' v. @3 Z: `* Mopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
  ^, E4 [: w, ~$ h3 i, shis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
9 F) x: W4 h. R5 d0 h6 Msay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this- m( v: ?6 K3 V3 G" C
was the name of the new paper.7 s7 X, L" \/ j8 k! I

/ ?. E2 G$ A4 Z2 E  }1 aThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
% s# `. H5 Q! E- t6 T  {severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as2 d+ Q8 i( i9 m& @, a% ^
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in! y: t6 Q1 e! t5 W& d+ g9 E+ W8 I
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I% @2 Q9 O( j/ m: u1 j0 @
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,6 s# F9 S: {( b# D/ I
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to2 L7 O* c& I1 }4 O; ?
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs  m) {0 W' s( I5 f$ b" K
thus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
* m- N8 @  O+ Q' [is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world1 y: N: B  s! j  c2 w3 ?
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
+ h# [! k) b; n, t# Hbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
, P% {, M# m" {, @* }excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one( ]3 h3 W, ~+ e) K
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.; a; T, o/ G8 \& J8 a& K
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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' ^# Z3 I$ g2 p. I'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
9 N0 I$ Z, S4 |. M"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
3 I6 P  `1 ^' @2 |7 T! j$ w. Vtempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
9 K/ h0 F- n  }3 greasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning" g4 P! R/ r' F: K  |7 O
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
% O5 V, x+ d* r$ Svagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
6 x! Z& @+ Y7 X6 g- lO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
) E  t( f* Q# v4 w5 Fgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
  S7 ?( O6 K5 V- N$ j* eis pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
: t- Y) m1 j+ S% ^I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
! G  W4 ?; o$ M$ |* Zhowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
) c  d5 G; l0 E  xhis integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his. E# ^9 l  g4 q9 |
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go( F# h! y/ k  ~  z1 a  V
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
$ k: l. n. u9 Q2 Gsoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let6 i+ f* H! m8 m' l& M  b: [8 ^0 l) K
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go/ k( G  v8 y/ E8 P% {
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that* p9 C  c' ^' P- Q# \& @$ y
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole: f4 d2 l1 J3 N% {! f
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
# y5 G, P! @6 oshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
/ f7 N9 U& }9 a) a; @8 W) ~: Qthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
4 r' F, S5 f  Q& tBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
; u7 P0 ]# P/ e5 u! ncaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!( ]5 V2 W/ @3 H# [! d
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy1 n* l6 p9 @2 j% k) r: o- D% H& t
could be.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑
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# Y1 {$ S1 c. @1 [3 e$ n6 d/ o5 YBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great1 p+ r! _' \0 S6 y
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple3 Z2 W9 N2 B) i! E
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:! I- b' @/ m: a6 D/ r
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of" _7 M$ {2 Q4 S; ?$ O
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in7 C5 g1 j4 m; l. V' k
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
0 r" s  u* x$ H- ]; H(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards3 H! R; h$ |2 _$ T
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the- P2 q4 F; P' P6 F
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
* R/ @+ n6 n! j( X2 Aof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the0 a0 S) X" p0 k- D! y
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
2 u$ c- M) X- D"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
4 J% d# P+ g% S  J% @7 ivowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the6 O3 Q6 c! ^. z, O6 O* L
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly- k9 E! Y- @. i5 H( G
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble0 J2 P9 J+ Q3 F0 o
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than0 M9 Y& P; U2 u4 p, p9 o
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to: W5 [0 M  {2 q' [
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go. q0 O! M: K+ H2 d2 D' ]; E% L! c/ t% Q
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
2 O) \. s# |9 K5 Q; z6 Eit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,& n, V3 n% T, ?' a' D
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
  A2 z1 O0 J( H) ~) B: A: I/ Smidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really( W# |! ]& |2 P0 t- @$ ^
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-* g0 ?6 S) w9 v: n
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
. J; |2 R1 {" H, F7 Otime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're; b8 I9 E# |, }. a; ?( f8 I) w
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
5 u7 \9 }) E, }4 E1 Nwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
8 T! M, U6 \: O5 o" F* _9 QOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
" e- \" c8 }* }, a8 band don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
, Z2 O& C6 s6 ?& e. ?* AJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
' o" D, y$ V, B1 cowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
1 s: r; E! o' J1 c' k$ P, [good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
0 C, M) Q/ [2 h- N! g% WConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your/ r% O  L& L1 k
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
$ Q: ?# j! D, X$ s9 u# Zgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
0 d$ @5 X- q" Fso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,; L4 R+ t; [) C3 A- r: R
and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
/ ]' o6 d: n, Z/ k- mTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to. `1 R% \2 o* \( D
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.; ^+ C3 M$ H8 n6 z9 D9 y

( ?* g( A, \# U7 b, n* V5 V1 ~The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
$ W  A0 r$ p' w$ C$ h8 ulooked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can
" I$ L: h- n0 r8 Q# @8 bdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a( f* X9 G6 Y" {, H
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single% {! m0 l0 l' ~0 z  O
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
5 e6 d. t9 ]: D3 L" c; G3 G  z! scapital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
0 S: h6 A5 u2 i* b1 o: P( d" Wwithout no o's.'
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very  @' J1 r( y! g3 c- I
angry at being kept from his bed so late.0 S  Q, [, f7 ^, ]8 x0 S# v% F; Q

6 G- D, {. g# @6 |  l'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
. D# P  m& T3 P7 z9 N, clittle one!'6 d) p  z2 t4 j2 O+ t. A" I  I7 O

$ v; v9 {" u8 n! h- A" t* z'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
; A, m4 T7 |1 u/ E4 g9 p# c4 }, `& r2 f! A. F! c! s7 @- M. |
'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'2 X* ~) Z# ~0 Z% n* \

' F1 R2 P+ I2 U- c'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning- N/ i. U7 z7 B4 G+ x
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
1 \9 T2 ]) k4 E. v( J7 |, U$ {7 o-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their5 Z! n  J1 C8 Q0 j- D6 y  l8 T8 j
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,3 b( ~3 H4 r5 C. y' A
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that+ R9 K8 Z* k3 a" b) U+ d
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'% H/ E! _" h" s9 M
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
* Y8 E) }7 ~' T" ^, vsaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in1 ?/ Q, k$ R4 }" ~+ x
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
1 K4 f% V$ b7 U$ e7 t6 gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,# t- P9 o0 ?5 P4 _9 a( B
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% g6 l7 V" s) i9 @eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as3 m  u7 d3 E% c. g9 z
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but& _% z: ?7 f5 L/ Q3 c
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of7 T) ^- j/ u. t$ H7 ]8 W0 Q
fight, in a small way.
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  H& N& H4 G# oThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in0 P. B: r$ ]4 G7 n  r
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ f# ^! J: K3 q& p& w$ n
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
. R8 w- ]4 d! z1 talways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, U. E/ v4 u7 u* M2 _
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" ~, _3 \7 A/ t/ `( y! J
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old' T0 u0 ~3 B+ u
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
. L* l- d7 Q. s1 whabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it6 _* e( h7 x$ u6 S$ k  K% V; e1 v0 a
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, |3 b5 S4 w% s% ]
the x to which he had been accustomed.7 {) d$ N  i$ h. H. M6 c9 l8 ^% ]

2 q. Q) [9 z" j8 \'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
+ G0 \; Z4 U  f/ A; d2 E( W; ^it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& B) \* a" \7 P. `+ q. F) Iparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
# Y" {( y! C! b  Cit went x-ed.
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2 n9 V6 `+ f6 ?* u+ X" a0 a* GNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by7 Q& f: g3 |6 V0 A# }2 G2 f
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
" R2 k; |: n6 b7 }time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
, l$ I* s! T* X% Q& Z: Gxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
, O- d* \% K/ W; Jwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?& _' P) J7 u. C  v) V3 d1 l# C* B
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at( R+ P. I& B1 ^
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,; T7 r4 F; G4 M9 Z8 _
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a) _3 y! S% C2 m% T" h
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld1 ^, F- [% d; y6 u! r
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
1 @0 r  X$ E+ q6 @) a+ O+ wCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
6 [* v6 a! z/ V& G% b6 icrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,* l/ K7 \2 k- M! Z' ^; [2 J
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld7 [9 P3 }) |( }$ j: S9 B, P9 R
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut( ]: i3 H+ W/ c( k
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is" R. R4 Y& @$ F4 s  o
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the/ l: b+ O% v: V+ E. E: h, q0 s
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
1 J, a# H- v' G7 b& V. {% nhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
+ R: e" D9 R# W2 \) c$ zresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
3 i8 d" J4 r1 Lgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell( X$ n& U$ X9 `0 l$ g; n
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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4 ]: i5 M$ T0 A# v2 L0 I4 uUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
$ k# Q6 H  n' k1 w& Y1 asubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
5 m6 S' B* m3 h7 A  R! m$ Fopinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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, F+ {6 a0 y9 T* ]Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of0 u, ]7 V2 M- U
fancy.
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.3 \; E3 t. ^' P4 n! `  o+ _+ q* ?/ I

/ {, Y3 C! @3 a4 IA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a' X9 J+ a+ I2 ~: ]
general way, his X-asperation.1 g! |8 Y$ ]( g  {4 c

: a/ Q9 }# Q$ A$ d) |8 V* t1 L'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;9 \% N* o! d4 A0 h' e
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
8 U: A# z! J: x# ^( N* d5 g: stalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
  H" }, s8 ^- t# xX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
- v+ B5 Y7 z4 K0 B; I' Bconfessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.) M. X( D1 ]1 j9 f
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
- Q+ a& y" L. t; q3 U9 K1 p( vobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.9 C2 o9 V: f: I1 ^* i4 K% m: \/ s
* p0 k& g$ S1 @7 n$ w9 J9 s- t
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
+ \' _9 W7 s8 B; X3 ithe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it# H, N0 u) F8 O) o
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
1 x$ ^4 v- p; P. Q' g+ Z/ U, _He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,. M, ?' {+ l: I" a' g* F! a
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be- y4 m. U2 H0 D( p7 F
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually; i  X! f2 o9 T; K* F: N  g
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral; i" u; N6 ]' u+ D0 Q
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in4 @" Q1 U1 H5 U
the X-treme.'
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