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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( W. ?+ ~0 R" ^1 L5 q7 ~4 y0 B
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# b- A6 G4 Z5 n) W! h9 _0 }perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" a% ?9 c7 Q; u4 B4 {0 qeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
% Q5 v) J. A _9 b" tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but4 c% e4 W3 @3 L" i9 X( H+ u( E
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of& t' _* t7 f, a# M6 N, c
fight, in a small way.
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, }" |+ A: j. k* `The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! o( s( b6 O' Z8 O
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( l$ [8 J, V5 P% v
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
$ K) Z3 n2 C6 S" \6 @7 \always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
2 `& M" E6 r( n4 n! o }deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
6 u+ _0 k. R. K) @+ Asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
A0 G. U$ m( K3 _/ N+ [0 Vtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 I4 F; p* n! ?8 t1 B. Shabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it0 \8 f% ~1 O/ I6 B; g( G* A
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
\+ E. w9 S; M9 qthe 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, [& @$ d. s6 ?5 I) q$ `; q; f0 N/ R3 |
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy. V% A+ y& T5 p+ u7 S
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 {7 |, w! y( |' I- u6 iit went x-ed.9 o. |6 C( y8 I# c
9 _% } w8 a, D7 eNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by% C0 b: d' ~* |4 f
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther6 _7 {7 V( ] @8 \* I& z
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're1 l" h2 i6 @# W' |( J
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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0 t9 B5 _( s$ c+ r0 a- bxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
, H4 T% V4 {# n& R4 ?2 j1 ^yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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