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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his A8 [/ @, Q' t6 [! J
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
1 f9 C _ O( o" R; Z* Eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their' L8 P8 U$ x" |
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as, @4 r7 [3 h7 F, p m6 q8 L& F
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 O F) E* Q) Y9 ]" etwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
$ J3 X8 @ [0 ?% j& U! E9 }% Y: zfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
0 J' B# E- [' `/ s6 iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the8 }0 }/ q4 O& y- X5 k5 G3 }
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost% C: p. p/ Y8 ]3 g/ F. _$ C
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
5 `" `3 a# u! ]3 E( x0 d/ Rdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ M6 A p' J. Z% r' lsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
/ j: U, @, q5 z9 t6 y$ Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an! a Z% E- q0 A1 |( K
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it' N7 E! Q0 B% y2 m
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
A; Q" S8 o) R+ Z+ b' ~, ^the x to which he had been accustomed.. o! k/ G* d8 s5 F
4 a { d; j5 X( T'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read: E. B3 g3 Z ]; S. V V- b1 c
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
9 E+ T. T! {0 J* ?0 \) s* kparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 G5 p! R/ c9 f1 `8 C
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by* I$ w. R/ E8 i% A: x! ~
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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