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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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/ Y- Z/ j- `- C, o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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4 R- i9 d! I9 z  CAS 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.2 a) H' N7 ?8 O
   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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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his% i& |  F, p# y
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that5 o; u  f8 W3 O- `0 [7 Z  z, g
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular3 D) [1 _2 Q- |" M8 F; C
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to1 l5 R( {( t" D
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
/ z  \% K0 e+ H0 Ddreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
" U; |2 U7 g- N+ hhad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived6 b$ v" J* S  z$ d: ?9 x
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
& o& L5 r/ w  e, i( W1 Syears had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
% k/ i4 c/ @5 S" r8 t2 n'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on
' R) ^  G+ |+ x1 E7 B7 ]" Oaccount of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found+ |. a' [3 i8 c' w3 c( ~" d& _
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he& m0 j1 n/ I% s/ c: ^
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
5 S# T3 L2 y+ d$ |" Mobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;4 ]% E9 q  n( @1 Q" E
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
' o9 D( U. C6 @9 c% D2 f! E. B; Sopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
. J4 }0 ?7 w; L$ }/ w* C, jhis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
: a, G" {/ w6 Y/ Isay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this. o& V- x& z* O+ i9 c
was the name of the new paper.
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say$ ?) G- @" P( i
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
5 L) `. d& S, efor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
/ w( D$ \" K, l* M& Q. T* o: uparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I3 C6 P" N3 |2 |% n0 l9 e3 h0 W8 Z
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
1 x: j: S7 V' u# M6 X# Dwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to* O2 J# z" ~6 U* E
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs7 V$ T' I1 A$ j9 c
thus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way6 q* R4 n  }# ~1 N
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world6 X8 G: Z: x7 d2 k# L
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
9 s3 O$ u* Y' [' w7 [bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of% O' @; N0 x7 s, Z
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one  q7 u9 J7 f  @
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
- L! a- h( _5 U! L( L$ ~; dNext morning it appeared as follows:
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
% K. [- O9 @1 C7 {  F7 ?& ], i"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
9 U( O' U0 Y7 j  h) C; btempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his' W( ]. T/ J; n: g7 \
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning) ?7 X# B7 x' _4 ~
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
' H1 ?/ ~; z0 @7 F# ivagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
" u4 q: l6 D. n5 @; B% cO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
$ J; w  s! o) e( t( Bgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it* L- T( Y+ A/ b
is pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
4 t! @# [* b, P2 a2 k, ~* WI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,6 L. X8 J, J- ]6 Z! [0 Z
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
) m+ s6 P9 W4 i# c9 \his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his3 r/ M' \1 T1 ]; g( v: }
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go% J0 X' r, t& |6 d8 d
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would. E' h: K! z+ g0 ?' j3 }
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
$ G6 E( ~  h" ^him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go- Z& l2 P- p" ^$ e
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that: @) O8 U4 D1 g2 X) s; D. w
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole1 j) s7 g! t- b4 b6 E1 P! L
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel. O/ j& H" ]  ?5 H% a
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
: f+ c3 Z! P" \7 V' A3 c. Fthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,7 R- n% o, d3 O: v* p6 u
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
# q/ ]( Q6 S( d% d9 Ucaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
0 Z5 p: f9 h7 K4 t+ bThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
, D6 k% k5 ^) P( Ocould be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
$ N* K/ J2 _3 e. Z; s5 k1 x" e$ CTouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple/ T( p& L) S' w! H$ m
but 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* I; a/ n3 x& l
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in( F  l! M+ d8 q2 S9 r$ y& ]
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he7 S+ q3 r  R3 X/ M8 Q" ?* c* G
(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
! c( R% ]( O( ?! |4 Z5 g. z2 Z5 v: @' xstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the# _* x+ q5 g6 Q- Z. y3 i
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism  `2 Q/ ?0 ]* u5 D' Q6 H/ _: S7 @
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the- U% D0 L% n7 V8 w
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the6 k/ z- [4 z3 k. W( ?7 S0 B
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
- z7 B. _/ w9 s" dvowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
7 T; V) |9 ^% s* u1 Jhyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly, n( j9 K# s1 p, f0 g* d% b
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble5 w2 N- _- A, K& s) T) W
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'. H" e: f4 j2 Y6 \) O. f

0 P; z8 m% s" C1 d  Q+ qIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than  A( `! B! A. N5 |2 Z
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
# M) k2 a" X7 H8 Oall entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
+ I9 ^# w7 e1 `& nto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that6 {  j, x( U% N2 F
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,7 \0 G9 `0 b( p( z" l2 |% m1 h
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
1 a! f; q8 ?2 O' dmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really4 x$ u" H4 s/ B6 f4 k$ F
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-( H8 f% r' e/ V" [% n) Q4 J; p; Q+ v. W

9 x  W0 q. g. p9 l8 [# C'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
5 C0 v% q/ z! q& \: @* k: k; Stime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're% s5 W, r" r. Y( H
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
! U& o, W" Q' f9 u/ y% V# K" jwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
# ~: t" E: r8 J7 COh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,5 h$ q+ v# M) V; v6 f
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,6 K2 b% i0 K! X" {6 B
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an- O' Y+ ^( c& C0 A
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
' i$ K- @, u) F) D; l( A& G( H( X! zgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
) U; h/ r# N' p6 y# H  V' B- nConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
/ t# ~# t& N0 [; B/ [3 K/ wcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor+ j# @5 M' n, t
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you; b" [8 K" }+ y7 z& k% c
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
' g. U$ k, [; {  Eand 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 great1 G5 Y8 m5 l! T  ]
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
4 B* @% z3 m; r+ j( ethe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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6 [+ W4 a( x6 f$ q) p$ I( JThe 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% }. c3 Y0 @9 V" n. v: R
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
, U8 r9 d9 L5 Y6 ^/ w. |$ @! Pdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
- c! {$ B" O; {4 F8 [letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
" N" g. ^) S. N, k" l% f. n+ I" tlittle-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the& L0 M" ^4 r2 C. J' e
capital-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& f  |7 |, i( r/ E. G
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a  \) _( k8 H$ I; M
little one!') e6 ~+ l% v( }; `( A3 |% |( l* O
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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'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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7 ?+ q* N* L: D7 |& r, P'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning* ~$ t  T: f) K% g5 G
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
) I4 m" w% b* {8 Z* ^8 `: Y-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their( h* C. M% s6 q! B
i's .'
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' l1 L- |2 r& c+ k2 m'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
5 D! k. i; }/ \4 k% uI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
% O/ T: ~) o% O) l/ @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
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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' z% ~, \$ w1 [  V'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
7 y/ Y! U* `) g6 [said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in' ^8 z1 r8 ~: W4 s& Q$ L* d! w4 U
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
2 Y7 m' c1 i2 v) d- qcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,' L2 F# e5 W& f8 h' d9 R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" e! e5 n$ B' Ieyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# `7 J3 H% ^$ i. Z
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
" u6 `( {; B" ttwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of3 ^8 J0 u' Z* C1 |3 c5 o8 _2 D" d
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
+ q% s& L# j) u( `+ A2 Pprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the; G* M6 M3 `+ R/ v. D. R
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
  h4 p) R( i- q# S8 _* Q0 halways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
; o& K, n6 d, s1 l; u0 ^" O/ Ideficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
7 G9 G1 k' c+ r( Z' N& o- Psuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, w- Y$ \0 g0 J; @, W1 G! }times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" [) V) ~* P# M) F5 Rhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
9 x' D6 S; P4 X+ B% Yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than7 K" }- Y3 f# {2 ?
the 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 read9 S6 f8 S4 z' o8 j9 w" A
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy( |4 `% \) w9 d9 a% ]- b/ l/ P/ Y
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 s, a! b7 w3 c( e
it went x-ed.1 N7 A7 ^0 z  n& Z' B

8 O7 D4 q% `7 w$ uNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by* X# ?% w/ _: ^2 c
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:: X) U8 n/ a/ U8 |) {
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther8 {. _1 c! F% k
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
. ], L, A1 r+ P" }xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
& Z2 [1 L0 M; q  l* S. V: _% m  {- ewxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
# C2 d# v6 J& c1 d  fXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
) k# a2 @9 E. K* s* i7 Cxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
# a& z/ Z( q, b, MJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
6 o0 B7 w' J( m9 lfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
+ V* _$ j7 A+ {, Zgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a" Y8 D! k8 M: F- N
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
0 S* K9 r" |; F+ C) g1 Ocrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
8 v7 C2 Z3 A- Y$ j, @) ^nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld0 O4 D: h7 k; U2 M( |/ Z5 b
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
& R8 X+ I( k0 Q# @sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
. M" d; e# o4 m, f3 rnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the. l; P: T. ?: N5 g1 M
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
# {. L% U' M5 zhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
/ ]) u) z0 j5 T7 L" J4 Hresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that7 {6 x, Q9 X3 F
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell( w+ }$ Q  z8 h  O
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since." |& D& |' L& Z; I- _) P
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length1 w8 k+ j# s( z& L( U
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of/ ~9 W9 S: ^3 R7 v6 L
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of0 Y! ^8 {  }/ n% j  M' q! U
fancy.! w4 G) n) I: ]1 m

/ b9 \9 {: j# y3 BA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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- {! U9 Q* q: A3 @# @: e0 BA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a" e( l6 A7 [# y, ?  M& y
general way, his X-asperation.1 P2 H% R0 |4 g: v
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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( B( }8 p9 z6 ?& zThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
* f6 q7 D2 @5 k2 {0 Kand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some/ N( L: E' B" H/ G7 q) F" K
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
6 T. w& Z6 ]$ ?1 ~6 hX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician8 l  [9 D+ V6 E( ~' n( Y9 a8 W
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
0 M* a" M7 Z# X" A( c7 Fbody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
! l2 V4 b# P4 g) S- y! _' b6 [0 R7 t% Yobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.6 }7 e. }7 M4 b8 z3 Q" o& f

" G% |' I# \+ s: v  J0 ]: KThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed6 c' D# w- N; c+ G$ L3 y9 K
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it( S$ Z3 b3 W6 A4 T% X5 o, {) K3 `7 O5 N
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.; Z4 B  U4 S) ^  G" b# e( p, i
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
( \; j7 G, p8 _; Bthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
" d; i1 Q& ]0 m4 _" }8 {7 Rpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
. O0 M) i; G1 |# s& t# Ea-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral% o! l2 {, G- c& _  R
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
  r& T7 R7 E( F0 t3 M/ s- e# Dthe X-treme.'
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