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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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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 4 Z  k# ?: c2 @! A9 F4 U9 y
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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.
# p0 B1 A, g9 ~2 x0 W9 T   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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0 k" U) W5 v5 \5 t& o1 j4 ?; N6 PI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his6 b4 K/ w$ @; \6 [. O& z
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that6 z7 o4 A2 e) _1 K1 `1 Z8 f
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular% A+ ]. y/ N* B/ y
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
9 {9 I$ ?$ E, @have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have. R/ _7 v, _; C6 [4 J
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis# W4 X* C% e7 H$ V7 K
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
3 }7 `& v( W) o7 r0 {5 c; Aa gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
- `# m& h8 R2 T" W0 @) J0 P7 @8 _years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the' y7 L  a  S' ?
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on
! F6 u) y4 i9 xaccount of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
) }2 c6 T* j4 A: Uhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he9 T8 H. e% ]$ R
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
$ j; q% Y5 X9 @3 ?obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;  l. l0 J5 X2 D6 l) f  f  F
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
8 V7 r% t# e1 X( L+ `opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after  q2 j% V; ~% t+ y: j
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
+ @$ S+ f1 B% m, Osay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
- |' |" R$ W+ X8 `# L) nwas the name of the new paper.& G! m3 s: X# u( e3 {5 R. ]! T
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say& G9 G2 q+ y) h* |: n, m
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as, c6 |( b5 q( r- ]# j
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
7 Z( c- d! f4 {# Kparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
  v  c7 Q9 d- _( U( }have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
' O  |* {; q9 C6 A: z5 Zwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
$ K# L, a4 V' Q) D2 vgive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs: P4 Z+ u8 ?  O9 x1 Y) t! P8 \& n
thus:
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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* w0 [, [9 t2 h
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world& A2 ~7 a, v* k# k& j, e
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'6 S% P( R4 K! V* _- H- M
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
  T, _+ `+ }( `; r  fbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
, W& F0 g8 {6 z8 c8 h) e" p% Rexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
1 p6 d+ H3 p  y; v/ [awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
! \( J9 O0 b$ ]; Y9 d1 kNext morning it appeared as follows:6 }1 u4 L1 n$ K/ }

/ v! Y& O% A9 Z$ [6 ^" E'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:! Y) f6 G  S) j6 X3 N# }
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
- P2 U$ w% t! o5 f0 qtempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his" |+ k/ R5 f7 I9 W0 L% I5 G5 b
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
4 `4 {' `! I' @( e, f) q3 wnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the/ n: \2 U' U1 F0 E" I) _' ]
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
3 B- @- u% |/ w! L6 K- f- oO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a/ x5 }: @7 h8 c% c" M. h6 e6 _
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
7 ?! I! q0 |3 L8 L- Uis pitiful."'; |+ {9 h3 [! U! B( l' q
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,2 j7 R- B1 U' t
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
" x- W& R) ~2 C0 z3 khowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
" s$ A4 b5 X  Z! E+ C( ~1 B6 _his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his1 g' Y& q8 R$ O) u+ e$ P7 g! E
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
( J5 ~3 r, T; k" iBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would' m8 o5 S0 Q3 Q) k1 M  d
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let. _5 h/ z7 a0 r# s, b
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go  U' j' q' h6 i  h- A
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that
3 x) \. d! A& |. z. Jhe, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole* o" b6 P  e9 a1 Q/ f
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
3 G% t0 q, O2 n' u! |7 {- }should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
' @& ]8 t+ S# C% I2 C/ G+ E! ~that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,  [- q8 u& J# u, k6 }0 b. l( Q
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
6 j3 C) ^% ^# U! l& P  x7 Jcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
3 j  w- `3 O7 w$ pThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
3 V0 v! O8 I7 acould be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great' U0 d/ Z, l% z. f% w1 n
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
/ M6 q/ Y: g4 v' Z: s& D! lbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:2 l  P# {, C5 X  T/ k

% A% Q6 N  ~9 T& \. L'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
0 s* H: J. @+ h" E6 kthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
( ]/ B9 y& r( U" e3 r* Xtomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he# A4 G% l% w, m  p
(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
) R+ _# U: j* y2 nstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
0 u  ~$ J% R. i. r8 Q& Gsupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
4 s& E" k; G" S2 B9 Y7 d$ pof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
1 q5 H% z1 f% K( N' ~"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the& M9 w+ @2 D& G2 x2 q. }# ]
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful* t% \6 ]+ V- Z$ W9 K$ V
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the+ e5 y7 V) F! o( w* A
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly9 H3 {; x5 f! q% g& |
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble  e' t6 `/ h, ]7 ]
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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$ U$ Z4 N" {5 v* M' o+ i5 KIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than" m! [9 O$ Z9 `. X: Q. e" z
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
; m5 E8 r" S4 m; f3 ball entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
. R4 u" ~$ L$ b# g) dto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that. H5 Z- l: H; E2 L) ~% P7 l* @) _
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,3 d# Z7 L6 k. W8 \+ w
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
. U6 p9 H. a2 S+ R5 v: d) jmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really: V" T  Z0 p8 o
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-  I9 o: n/ H( W: Y# {

/ E  k4 G7 u' N6 b& e'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
8 v9 X: [3 J4 A0 W, k0 O, A0 I+ atime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
' T) U/ \0 B1 }/ i; B" wout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
3 j! X% y/ Y* p  I; Y) t" fwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
+ L1 p' M' u; ]1 mOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,9 Q' C: ]" V- e/ E( Y% S
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
; P! @' `) N( a$ SJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
9 L4 T- o# [) m8 ]/ K, x- `2 T$ Qowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
5 y) R, H" X; s# I0 P2 ngood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a! t8 I+ R% T: t
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
3 Q' L: W+ z  [crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor* v" `' m* h3 q. [
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you- t2 u) e) v. w: \3 J1 B( N
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
9 K$ T$ `( N# [$ S5 b- y, Q9 jand 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 great
0 C  Q) R4 G+ P, }Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
3 H4 N2 ]9 z! Othe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.' |5 K) V& _; x7 Q7 U5 q/ z% E- N

; g" u0 t$ h7 L2 `7 eThe 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
! g! W  A+ ~3 V5 T/ z* vlooked 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
2 ^' \! U* }) t5 Ldescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
/ O$ V; b. C* Z2 N/ Y' E+ rletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
7 g) {5 f# o, Q( x0 k! K9 I6 F" blittle-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the/ m* L6 w% n( ~! X5 c; F
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' ~0 E% X+ W3 A
without no o's.'/ Z( z9 J% {  n. ?5 o9 v. u

2 y/ e) y0 k. G: i9 q'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very- r% W1 f3 E0 R, b
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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) w/ Z" r2 g/ b2 g6 m  h'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
- q3 S+ L0 z- y9 W' dlittle one!'
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6 W1 S2 z' B: M) |, k. M% n& _'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'# v9 N& M6 m$ d

9 C( D' i# |( \0 ]2 O) n'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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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning8 h5 p2 @% \$ Z: V
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy! j3 J/ L, S$ [! U& f: L
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their0 ]/ X' }' W/ R, Q- J, Y/ l
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,: X$ ~) A" f. b
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
; O( S& z4 s# P# x* zparagraph? 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
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'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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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'- `! X" G. G$ F6 x4 _: p
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in0 _8 B3 j; N7 J( y  `* K1 G+ @
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
  _4 a+ B( z! W7 A1 I2 [case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,& X6 s% u% \* [$ B, A. v- @) P
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
! C6 ^9 N% d# {( reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as" y- Q' y( ]) q+ I1 k
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
# T/ V) _' Q# E# Jtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
2 N$ p& F- q7 kfight, in a small way.
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/ L2 f7 s+ I$ ], P5 p+ I/ Z, _The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
2 w: [- u( z+ v) f, q$ D1 Gprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( q+ V5 O7 j, jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 B3 W# O# \& ?4 m6 q3 v6 s( Galways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter- D5 H5 J5 r3 m( L: `! p' Z) ^' N
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most! I- g! m+ ~$ _+ }9 s. u/ e& Q
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
5 m0 s0 G9 g' Qtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an, [8 x, L4 a' m6 O. U; ?
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ ?9 ?* Z  d1 n# M
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" ?- @' t5 U8 d3 z& K2 G; q
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 read$ i0 ^( i8 ^# A( i& m
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 R( P0 b1 ^' ~2 D
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press5 I: O" L9 v0 q/ N  k# X. f/ h  s
it went x-ed.5 D- s9 P: G! z- s" j3 q

0 n" w7 A% |# n! `  cNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
2 \- R/ C4 L; T% ^/ B" Z9 Jreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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% s7 P- c$ U- u'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther& [  V2 y. A' A2 _- I- r/ V
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're" n4 W% F. Z/ L1 C
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld8 O1 {7 X8 K/ d2 S$ ?- ^% y$ H
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
" l8 Y8 ]2 J$ e7 h' x5 [2 qXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
9 w- i7 K9 d( g6 D; Q' `+ L; Hxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,: [& J& {; Q% I7 C1 P: v- b. A
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a- w) j/ p1 Q" R; B; p/ x0 Z* G
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
+ s6 j6 J2 V/ `# J3 F2 x8 I; Lgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
" J: |3 [7 e) zCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur7 K1 d5 Y# V# a  r
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,  k( W7 }  |4 x; D6 L6 V- C
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
2 h* [, H6 t. V) c3 }$ Ryxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
' b( p( ?4 A9 Zsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
+ |! v2 P/ [" Anot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
2 V' |( F( x& o) @. M5 Jpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the* |: i% h  @$ _' s" F- G
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
$ c  N! p& P1 `% x+ uresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that, L" Z3 w/ o; i
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
" \5 s6 s( X. Q& ehow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
! X8 ?$ U* A" usubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
' x3 m$ n, w$ m( s" `opinion about this unhappy affair.
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! U5 |; {" S5 O) r- zOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
! ?4 ^+ h' ^0 Z" `. ~fancy.4 |* M7 X0 u7 Y0 H9 i
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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
6 _, ]: J* [- H8 t% ~! Cgeneral way, his X-asperation.
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.; x+ O& |, G# _/ b/ j2 w( P
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
9 V1 C. C# }6 N  @8 b" Uand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some( D* p6 `7 G8 \( d2 t1 C/ o
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
. c* M4 F6 p* VX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician) m& a) k; z$ Q  k& ?$ g2 {0 r
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
! I( L6 l/ r2 E% V' h# `body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly' z, U( l9 _/ n4 k/ X( U$ U
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
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The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed0 J! p1 {5 I& ~4 F
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it2 T, m: y. m; C: L( k9 s
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.% c4 x7 X4 |/ g" Y+ [& B! q
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
9 ^; S5 U8 U; Gthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
5 K" h. O! r2 F" `persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
7 m' f6 k" `2 k0 M# t, za-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral4 G3 W8 N6 A2 c" F7 P
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
0 O, k4 j& W4 v# f! K: mthe X-treme.'
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