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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ j4 f+ p- j6 j
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,# i; i( E& G# A2 p
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their$ s, L. ~ H1 [8 _6 j
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
! N4 O4 P9 ]8 q7 n5 Z/ Eis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: s: t) N: Y8 U$ T
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of o* o4 ^ l5 x Q: N
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& V: Y+ k7 _1 c% M, O3 w
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
4 o2 L' j. q! Q% |& efact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost& m+ B, b7 ?: v. g( l7 o
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter6 h( o; @0 S+ G. U4 z' A9 J
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most0 H. T3 {- ?/ L/ @
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old! X6 y: R4 K8 A% u
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an* d0 L0 b. L4 h2 d! C; u! j, |
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
( E' M1 D$ r) B, pheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
* E0 y# C: k3 b6 `7 c- C- gthe x to which he had been accustomed.' d; T! v8 x! n, {6 [9 U0 K1 a
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ {6 s: J5 ]' p3 P* Uit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy& X$ K+ x H( m9 J/ d
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press! Z6 N& ^/ f, B& f" ?) M6 Z q7 p
it went x-ed.: i% ?3 s5 h: n0 c; G: ?: l, { ?
/ K$ v: y9 t) j3 r/ C! g8 WNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; H+ S9 v7 ?9 l1 Rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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