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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
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+ f5 J/ {+ }4 c: F! c/ W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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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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AS 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.) q* K- H, |. u; |. P
   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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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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2 Y9 @6 O( k+ CI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
. v8 e0 V, J( h0 g# E1 `+ \0 ymind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
: v9 |* N) r; q) wno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular5 l2 j4 S# c6 a: }  l( u
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to% V& d# w; u  O/ w2 C
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have! E4 T' u: Q8 Q8 }
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis6 l/ J- u9 R2 _) t" h
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived1 H+ l7 O: S4 f( \8 `" F/ T
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many: y  T% L. N4 k1 Q  ^! e0 r
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the6 r2 i- w4 a* i% G" l8 p, Z, j; A
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on0 [- t! q7 O0 r: ~3 k6 \
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
' l9 X0 d! b9 j+ Yhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
) ?! \6 ]1 L/ F5 l( Vdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
: u! }( e( E3 ?& g* f8 P0 Iobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;* r1 `  m8 U. E% X; L
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly0 c7 @2 @# D6 d* q5 V7 a3 Z4 q: W
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
9 |8 M$ D" l! r4 u+ qhis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
; t% z! Y# G4 V( ?say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
7 X% x( e- Y. L1 U& M" ]8 q3 Vwas the name of the new paper.+ h- c& }+ z' E/ k" X2 Q0 j
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
/ {( u! H8 f  s8 X0 T+ ]severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as' n! }" ?6 u. R4 N: N& b; d
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
# z2 e- f2 j' t9 oparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I0 Y+ ]4 C. _. `+ s# b2 n# A3 X' B
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,4 D/ F  E& ]+ A- w7 A
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
: W- c0 \: h0 K: Y7 L% U" O4 Rgive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
! S+ E5 J2 m0 q. gthus:
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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
8 ^0 e3 s- ~+ qis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world9 U* a/ ?9 [: H5 J4 c/ A  z( N
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'6 N, Z  h/ i0 D2 w# ^8 Y+ S/ ]

. D6 C2 Z. O0 ~$ t0 G, nA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
. c) T4 S6 J( \$ _6 z9 ?' e) fbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
' |% _9 B5 |! r/ X/ B2 Kexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
+ x% k1 `' E4 q/ Eawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
  K9 Q% u, P3 O3 `8 \0 qNext morning it appeared as follows:
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- `1 V! G$ o( f/ @: e'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
1 i9 G- w' n2 w9 q" w" Y"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
: R: T$ P* W) \/ btempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his+ z2 t% ^+ T( v+ \1 n" u" z
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
" w9 Q( S# A2 t( A$ t9 Xnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
/ b, R& X. L* q/ a+ \. s. p$ {* L3 W4 svagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this% W4 ?9 D; V8 ?- x& N
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
6 ?1 z& ?# d% B3 pgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
( O+ m5 w' _- q  y7 Xis pitiful."'5 s$ X4 l) q: |8 k0 w

7 _3 h: w, P+ DThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,$ A0 G+ G: C+ `1 m& |/ j
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,  r4 O! B3 P9 m5 F; R9 O, [1 n
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon+ V+ i' b" \# G2 D
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his$ v2 N& }/ O9 d4 N1 N  c% d
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
7 w0 B! ~- X& M" uBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
5 f' q$ A( r! ~soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let2 y8 S: y7 r2 n0 a- g$ ?
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go$ t' L9 ?1 @4 o7 P
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that
  z# b* Y, S( W# H$ i4 |* ]he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole* `1 z+ p3 {/ e
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
' w& X) H% W9 `. H; vshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
! @! d8 e. e, N) |: j' s& J. \) Wthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
! p$ s& ^' R- @# U. BBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the; v$ ?6 M. O5 h! W' R
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!- Y* T3 N9 L) [( l# _
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
% p& B/ R. W* O1 a/ H1 `could be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great0 G2 b: s! p: u' ]4 w6 T
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
  N) Q8 j9 }" k7 Qbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
. s5 D, c3 F* N9 l+ ?1 \9 p$ F: _the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
6 S. ]2 g9 a* o* z7 ]tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
1 `2 }+ S9 P: W! d* |4 A# F" G(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
2 p2 _* @& f' T. L% c5 P9 qstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the4 G9 e+ W/ f, p+ j
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
5 `8 u. a2 V9 Gof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
8 \5 \5 Y2 n6 h7 e6 z  X+ R  D"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
& H0 _1 _6 Q! y- E% ]" f' e"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
1 {0 H* E% K, pvowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the' S' W) D2 C. p
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
+ D$ k) `$ G% t& J% I( g/ `not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
/ z; r/ X, [$ f, J  U2 I, f3 K* g5 Rservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than0 c5 l: b5 b0 k& e- Q9 l
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
) q; P0 U3 k5 O1 ]1 }3 `all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
2 v( ^% R8 G  W, k9 N. bto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
% A, f8 x' q8 A" k( K8 P5 `- Git was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
, p- b0 c3 s( a6 _I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the# ~1 E: x+ ^9 y3 i, l3 F( \5 M
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
) ]' g+ ^4 l" \% g, uunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-1 c+ T% A, [3 h( o+ K

1 e: S7 Y4 J7 w$ n8 ]) k'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
/ U8 I5 Y+ k+ qtime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
, |) w0 n2 S: H6 ~# ^2 w' p6 Pout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
: t0 U& D5 x6 s. @( _woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!8 v9 p$ B& m- g/ v* X& ?% @
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
1 Y; ~! W  C" nand don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,3 \! c3 ]. [/ E* ^2 z" f" s
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an$ p* F. ]# l1 s7 W
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
8 G$ p: U$ n/ _, ~good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a7 v; H5 a' G: w3 C
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
5 M; n3 d0 r* P$ q- U& J4 J& ecrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor  D5 o) H/ N/ ?' l+ o, J4 l7 [
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you& K  C# G( O7 x3 G/ S
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so," b* R4 X) u) @- R% N
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 great9 K5 ^- T: O- v
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to- R& e0 k: E8 x0 A$ G' y
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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1 t1 l2 n. z! k& ?- P2 }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  b# r1 \- v7 ~
looked 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
1 L4 Q, A7 d# j( m' q; u5 ddescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a5 f- g5 W: X5 m. t+ d8 X
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single" h9 `8 T- w& x- |) o0 d; r6 Y
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
! R) I9 e1 Y& l" Qcapital-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
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
- n7 ?: W- ~. B3 U0 }angry at being kept from his bed so late.# H/ s: x1 w; m! a4 d( M
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a" t7 m5 T& R, X8 }
little one!'* i6 w$ D3 G5 l+ [. K, ]
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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1 C- L* X4 J3 p8 M5 F5 `8 X'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.'
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# ?3 Q( _6 H9 @5 W5 J'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning/ r- h6 @( Y0 }$ v* ?
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy) H" T6 Q( g' s) x& B' Y0 N- L
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their5 W5 Z' W2 s$ x/ r  |; G
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
" g( ^$ S: L# SI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
" f% _; Z! P" Y1 Uparagraph? 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?'
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- O/ c9 l& f4 T'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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) a( V# C. i2 c* y'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
7 E7 m& X: \( u5 c* Psaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
, ?( W# k$ x# j6 H/ T$ ~# Psome 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
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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 his7 c# r- R, F5 |; i1 x
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
% |5 ?" Z0 I/ w  k, Mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) G8 \1 I4 \, x# j7 M; teyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as8 p8 k4 `! i6 d* V( x3 x
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but- d/ h8 A& l& ]& D: S8 v3 M
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
( E9 A1 A9 F% `9 [% r- qfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 I! B/ K7 p/ d; Oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- ]1 P0 @; u/ |fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( t( h$ r6 G' P3 ]: {always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
6 l7 B  _" Z9 Z' N5 N3 {deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
) A, _( a1 C% A% }5 h+ Fsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old2 N: B2 I7 Q# U
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an0 N1 k# w7 N* b
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
* w  e* d+ g; @( Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
  @& M- L: M4 M9 L" [the x to which he had been accustomed.2 c9 M; O( n! d- P* Y# J

' k" H- k% a: }# [6 y6 v'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read  y7 S% _/ F: n# U
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
. Q% {' @8 B4 o! t5 j% hparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
- k: `* R9 g# qit went x-ed.
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: A  x( o. J" }- c8 WNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! F" r5 V! y9 t8 i
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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* a, h4 n9 q. p. l'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther: S! ]: F" E' ~
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're( k3 ?0 c  {# g0 @7 U/ G! G, s
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld! V! Q5 i% Z0 [1 s* J/ ~% z: U
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?$ x5 }3 F; S* r
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
  n& x/ L; l" s/ C7 q2 jxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
! U( [. V  I& b- P' DJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a" z  [. M$ e+ j, Z
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
/ e8 a; W( w# n0 w+ v7 Cgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a: O7 n8 v; k4 h
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur0 X( n9 ]. q' r) c+ ^+ r( B
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
, X! S# a, l4 [: y* Rnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
' b- O* X6 G2 l( u% syxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut8 r* g+ M5 k$ w3 h( K; n
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is% x, ^2 I* \& V. T1 f8 D
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the1 y1 Z' g, `  d) X5 |
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
, L, M$ l: y! B9 H2 c' c8 [/ p8 n5 _hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's) p( x- `* p) N( Z& e" _! L
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
: o  w* T7 n2 [: a# |' h0 |. Jgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell2 Q- b$ d! p- ^3 m
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since./ u8 m: ~- t% o4 a" |7 |$ ^# S
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
) [  G) Q9 N6 U2 @subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
3 {) m/ @8 C; C% u0 a, F" c, _opinion about this unhappy affair.
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4 }! Y! @0 S2 p" y0 }  }- o9 IOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.- X4 T  z. g8 i; S
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
* g, y4 J5 c5 ^' m! }. \8 Zgeneral way, his X-asperation.) X+ |7 d3 F  V% M# h
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.7 f& ?  a; {/ W1 e" q& ?4 V) I7 o, W" O! ]
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
+ T2 K* d  p7 k3 a" Y4 Band in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
. o5 p; K; v  l; Y) ?talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,& V* U# T  c8 i) `1 l* \+ y7 x
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician4 y& Q; q9 X  B* D
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
0 a0 x7 f+ K2 s; d5 tbody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
" Z1 t( Y* ]! D/ t4 _observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
. a. }1 z; Z( p6 a$ H. L3 j# J8 I
! `3 q$ G8 I& i, ?3 k, PThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed$ p0 p$ A& l) J$ A3 r- H) ~
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it1 j; D- z( P' S! ^! V# S) _# z
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
8 z8 R& Q9 f9 n/ ]He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
8 F. i0 @% o* d: Sthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be3 j0 x- F# P  j, s- Y
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually; B) I3 X5 D( `/ F7 B( U
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
/ l9 l* J( T, i- o  T8 Nconsekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in" I7 e+ n2 F, _3 z& \
the X-treme.'
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