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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑 . s0 L& v; e' ?/ Z3 K* }& Z

+ ~& O$ a5 a, P$ ?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.
9 R8 I2 f% O# Q2 V: N' C   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 6 F6 b9 z5 W+ `- G7 i2 X' _4 w

& Q4 J  a# F& f+ D7 R3 s, D7 X* XI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his. |; B% t9 @) u, Y- D6 d
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that0 G& q& {& C' G
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
: k$ w' j, M, q( {+ `- K9 isection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to5 W8 ^3 s0 `- ?- O" C$ z% ^# d: Z
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have3 }& Z  }* J9 m; B& H; R& N5 v8 u, o
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
& c% e5 K0 u) Q0 v' t# O7 [had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived6 p- b8 x; h- k; z/ S
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many4 q- {3 r! Y( {5 j7 ~
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the; g- b: q  u# z2 p
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on( K$ A6 N; U5 S9 Z# Y
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
- r) H1 _' Y( Q7 B8 {. [himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he7 A1 O: h! o+ e2 j- I
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
1 |0 R8 u' G7 w: S$ m8 V" ?3 }( ]0 eobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;: f! {5 q- ^; e; a: j2 J# g/ d
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly! Q" ~, {: g3 v$ G
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
' _- E  L3 {1 v" Ohis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
1 i* D, w7 i  ^; U& Vsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this; o* _0 _3 W- {! F
was the name of the new paper." p$ [# C; g% B8 ?: e
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say$ |8 c9 N. j# ^5 L! S9 P
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as* R; |* J. J0 w1 l
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in& v8 d  d# H! a$ v' }8 Q% A
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I4 T# o3 N/ [% j& r) h1 p" d7 L
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
6 A* f" k* a3 Z3 U) ~who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
' \8 m- I& t* \* I1 jgive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs6 v2 ]5 B  D1 T+ k& G, U
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
/ C' G8 I. x( V; W7 Kis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world& Y9 P; Q0 {8 J0 S  J
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'" F( ]) G  e- g0 N* X8 N
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a+ E. s4 P5 G/ l$ u) b( ^( }% ?
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of) t# s) \0 ?6 ^* C
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
- F1 n4 o+ o- ]8 Eawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
6 U6 v' @' z% r6 ?3 m/ \5 Z& fNext morning it appeared as follows:# s* l9 m5 L) H( _
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
( m2 H0 e% `, m0 H: V0 [4 K"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,) t2 q; r' u+ k: \. [9 K5 \
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his- I+ e$ t* E+ Y/ S) ]. I
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning+ `' w1 T  e: Z5 I: D! s' j) i
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
$ w$ V+ e! P( q4 _vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this, q  [) T# L: |; L% v% K
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a4 \* ]+ F) R  u' b. b
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
% j( k" q- b$ m3 M! B$ a# c8 mI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
# Z3 B1 l7 J: c8 m3 Ohowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon/ M' P  G* M- L( t7 ]2 y
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his  ?8 W, ^7 h/ `0 \5 v4 r1 a3 A
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
4 r) ~4 C  a: @; o8 A  bBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would+ M* ~9 L* v3 C& `
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
- ?! N" t- w! H3 I1 [' _$ K2 shim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go4 A9 X: L+ E' [5 F
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that2 w8 _/ R, x+ [. m" p
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole4 n, D$ l0 d& a& ?. h5 E
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel4 Y0 g, E1 x4 G/ M8 M$ X  [* L
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --/ ?+ c0 O9 G/ z/ M
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
4 r6 G- s# j1 y' |Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
" y- X3 ?; V/ _& ~caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!. }; l# q! S+ B0 |
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy1 K% k; O7 G( e, _, m
could be.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑
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) m% {8 {; c/ h" H0 {# BBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
# b# o! p4 X2 R' ATouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple2 w4 `- \6 L, n% z6 ?5 h
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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; [7 ]+ l: \3 H' w'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
, e) s) g0 P# G# {$ y3 Uthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
/ s6 i7 N9 J# H; Vtomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
1 \0 T5 s# L! B(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards: _$ @9 E' s0 R" w3 V4 M' M, F& t& ]) b
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the% X  V6 A! O7 ]3 a! i: a
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
7 h' d  c! q, Z0 xof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the/ o9 B& L: ]! l$ M' L$ L# I1 G' {- ]
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
) U. K% @" a" U* Z"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
. M3 O4 T; }& o& {! _- K' P3 _vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the% e" d! w% w0 Q9 B7 l, f
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly# J$ ?7 [' H/ C, \6 Q( e+ r
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble: {# F! I+ h& S( M( r6 v" H1 j" M8 |" t
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than. e" `& c: o+ P* A
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to) ^. y: G' Q- B" N0 g1 Z# T& J
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go. o, V6 o2 p- a& e" t
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that1 H7 o$ U3 W" [1 s) C( G& m$ u
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
6 z: B& m% [7 C9 H) ]I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
- O2 K3 e6 N" i* Q* H' j- \midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
' Y8 w% I" t. }! Q- Runparalleled paragraph, which follows:-' K; I( e9 `! w4 S2 H3 k
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
7 W2 D1 X" K; E8 n& T) x1 etime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
% f$ R0 l, ?  ?( M( |out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
7 S  r, z3 e  w2 n+ nwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
) {! u+ X+ V; x; `Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,+ U; K" M/ O& A, j6 O
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
4 L4 g) C! k, `' gJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
" z& @% ^+ l  Y! B# D: E2 x0 ^owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
0 S% W7 ^( S0 I% @0 v8 ?2 p, ugood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
- k' T. D. b5 d% e# q  U$ bConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your% q2 g8 O! O4 E; Y: V
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
; \5 f3 X8 p: `" Z8 ~: Hgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you0 W+ _: ]1 X: E; s* e0 f8 l2 |
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,4 O. \0 j2 S) K" T; N5 d' D  B7 ~/ B
and 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
; i) h7 c9 a* W/ TTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to* `' m- Z7 h+ l' g' j0 w
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.! I! h) s3 q1 P7 }$ i9 S
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The 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
9 b- [! B% S+ G6 j, t; q  I* M2 F% Nlooked 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
  q- Y' F) d5 x7 k% _describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a3 |% z  r& e5 L. Z! C/ T
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single& Z8 P# h0 f/ ]0 n
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the0 D3 l7 B: {( _; R
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# c, l# |# R) y% }9 k9 z
without no o's.'
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. n- ^8 @9 ~8 n8 R" i; I" `# u'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very! M7 Z0 _; E2 M* Z  V; v  ]
angry at being kept from his bed so late.* a9 I% K4 E, j( {$ I8 d* j

3 d2 a- T7 j+ s7 m'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
& R  u, O) p! R7 F" _4 j2 J4 Plittle one!'
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7 I3 b6 G& f( x8 a7 s( ['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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9 s' @/ J( z! Z: \1 E! j3 w' U'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning9 K  e: P; F2 W5 M
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
$ F+ C1 O: z6 W. ^-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their( ?+ ?$ Q5 o5 c; y9 z* ?
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
- v  e6 U1 y# L/ I7 t, lI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that* V4 D9 @7 e2 {- H1 D
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
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'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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: i: c, `, l% r+ \$ `+ O'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,', j$ x, Y" X3 Y: e; o
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in3 Y" }) R; i+ ~# X4 k& Y
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
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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
8 B8 x$ [! t9 N9 ~6 R  Q6 ]" C6 Ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& [* l! F# B* g& Eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 Q# Q6 V1 k. m* r  s0 U: s/ ]6 e
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# o+ Q) H/ @, U2 y& U: K
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 @1 `+ W  t, c2 [& _* D# `
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 m% Z4 H% D: t; A
fight, in a small way.
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' d3 O& _2 J3 V% {The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: W( x! o# N- `( T4 C( O" Z: T
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the. Z; u2 [& p  [7 q5 n- A# K
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost+ Z! N( c( ~0 V
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter* ^" s0 X+ s: N$ c: k
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 u) {/ c  e; i
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
# q, V! F  G6 l) p; V, J3 vtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an5 n3 W4 |# s3 H% y& U
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it; c8 b$ i( I: i* i* t* M
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 k. l6 h* h& O2 ~7 z1 Athe 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 read5 C8 O! D& ~% N+ i$ A
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy* p% h% H8 f2 o3 r, }
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press( l9 A3 R8 t% g4 ~( V; u
it went x-ed.! h/ a- d; \; p

1 o/ D) s" a& C  fNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
, T1 z* t% b; X1 M9 Lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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+ d$ T' L; s: l'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther; _5 _/ X/ c7 o. d0 k! W: j4 n
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're. |, \, M: Q4 Z1 f
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
3 Q0 |- D& @; T# A! ^wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
) {  V; @  D& Z- e2 c) M" `Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
0 r. o. R8 j& t2 k0 `5 l* C, exnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,: F. X2 W, g( Y  u0 m
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a1 c/ [% m% X0 f# a! m+ @
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
/ P% g/ @* u2 l2 @, Ogxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a, i  q8 z, M6 v4 C/ t: I
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur! o8 k  k0 [; _, ^9 K
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
8 v4 g, f0 ?& @: Cnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld( B* Y: W! S) H" q( N
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
. ?" Q- B& R! ?sx, 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
$ @3 K! R* L: tnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
/ ~$ I1 |4 b0 T2 cpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
( \8 ?4 L' B% T5 v* y5 i# Uhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's/ V" R! e& Y6 x3 `) E
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
# }+ {- w& |( ~0 Xgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
/ D+ g) w. f7 Whow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since./ [  D6 u0 p* N$ g

3 n) M3 Z' p# |) }( F  Y; IUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length) Z& j) l% l! k& [+ l: d3 `1 A
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of2 L% T# B9 H4 j6 X! E
opinion about this unhappy affair.! Y0 v3 a5 ^6 n& ^, {, E& `$ [

5 _7 r! I6 E; z  P" J- TOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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) Y" y' f: r" p) Q. V/ HAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
3 U, F% Y/ U) |3 A1 n8 Sfancy.
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.5 a1 B4 k# _7 E! Y
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
4 n! T- W* m/ `1 e4 L' h& Ogeneral way, his X-asperation., K, h9 A& r! T
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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% t7 C  `1 C1 a% u: Z5 ~That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;, _* w; J, d- z, w/ V7 }
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some' x* t# ], O3 P9 p& [
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
- ?0 s* h2 Q% p# F9 y* e; `- VX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
- r' F) x# O3 r0 aconfessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.0 I* `* }, V6 I6 r3 f8 y
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
$ O) B9 Q( |; G) r1 P5 ~2 q- [0 Lobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.- O2 a8 G" C, Y3 q. a  R; _
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The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
# f" L6 I0 F" l  rthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it7 P9 J; Y- f) f" ]- Q0 Z: I
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
$ j3 x  S! t0 ]  [1 i. u, nHe said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
; y; y/ R6 |% A# T" ethat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be2 {& [( J4 C1 P
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually* m  I. t" A6 @9 U# w. e) F  p
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
( L8 S3 o5 ~# H) s2 c' [consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in& s/ t3 m1 b. d
the X-treme.'
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