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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his1 k2 R' m$ {- k9 q/ i
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; X5 q* L- x) ?# u5 R3 ?
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 j# e% j1 [7 S4 i2 teyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
5 }% Y6 [/ K8 e5 D; [is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but( n7 X; ~$ ]/ f. ^
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! ?, r0 E6 ?5 U6 |. i% p
fight, in a small way.9 p3 V* M1 M2 @# m
" u( c& y; q% lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in1 s) U/ C& U/ p' C& d2 U3 s2 M4 R2 Z
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the. _) A4 k* e6 |; V) m3 n u
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( m2 p3 k. E: F' B0 g+ g' Ralways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter4 X* z8 ~* Y; D! f
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 b( E4 {0 C6 [4 U
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% ], l3 C- C0 d
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
. A: ^) C6 x. B# D$ X2 i, r" Z; nhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
% a4 G2 Z' c# d9 x Z9 Y4 m+ i1 Gheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
+ l$ U* o# S8 Vthe 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) \0 m1 i K/ O+ z. d2 d0 d( m
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy7 I/ Q' Z, D4 |# i% I# e/ o0 u# K3 I
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press2 f; D: i# p F1 L. Q3 M, s. e
it went x-ed.3 e+ I8 P3 p6 C
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
8 L6 G7 M: F$ l9 l5 ^& lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:. i) V# r; R) Y* R* L* R0 {$ C
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