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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
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# ^' R/ d* U5 H, p- V* B/ ?7 n# oAS 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.$ g' o4 B4 v2 N; A0 a. [# {2 H  R
   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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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑 + i% y' l# [. O# n: a- M  v7 Z
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his% z) w! e! B9 f& [
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that5 f+ m* \( V2 {& s5 `& D
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
! \3 N( `: ^4 s) U1 y, ]+ zsection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to4 [) Q( g/ p* {/ j: J) ]6 c: C
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
/ u( r9 p1 j( v. f1 {6 \4 n9 [dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis( S5 s& n' g+ j, E4 L
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
8 _2 i9 D0 a7 F& m* \% W+ `a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
  F* |$ k% w4 @years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the+ ?2 G! H* ~6 j
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on! |( s% M0 N7 _9 Q. U5 l  `
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found! _" p: o6 V2 K& _( y9 f- x
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he8 t6 m; a+ }! q  ^
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for* T  E2 h" n) F& a  @5 N
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
2 h% w2 b7 `- w8 nhe unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
1 S5 k% c7 h7 b7 Dopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after2 F2 S2 |7 {$ ?% q" V
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
9 y' b1 w) b7 p" p$ Y3 t( o! [2 _& F4 _say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this, w* z* H9 d. Y
was the name of the new paper.
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say" M0 z( a$ l& L
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
4 q) N: ]5 G2 z6 `" Vfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in8 ^/ `: }+ g. _  t
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I' [6 F) n' t' A
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
- L0 d4 n3 _- Xwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to  j; L' x# d5 g, g
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
- E% \' S" O! m' M$ Mthus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way7 n1 H: n# z  P$ A9 F
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
) Z, \3 R- T* Rcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a& m) b& h  t4 m$ w# J
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of' L' W, D8 {) u: H6 h+ j3 H2 C% ^- r5 P$ q
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
% |. e' E( y9 b) Q! s6 W0 tawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
9 e: |* C5 S* u: `, h, iNext morning it appeared as follows:. A! [4 H2 }$ b6 g! W) ?: V0 r
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
/ X: X; p, G/ A  A5 x- _"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
  H/ W$ E* ?! W2 u2 x" V' r$ C% t6 ktempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
8 ^  Z+ Z) _. r5 d# yreasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
$ {; C. k% E+ J6 wnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
! q: j3 W! i6 q/ P; o% ?vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
4 A5 f# M: i* ]O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a, D% H8 V: _: ^! o5 B
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
8 N( X) ]- C8 d. @6 Sis pitiful."'$ E' E4 T7 m* V+ b
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,* ]  Z1 E6 c4 \2 P. Z
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,8 f1 Y  b$ o! r, u, _% ^
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon% V+ e8 s6 e! h" [: R' I" z
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
- s  J3 C3 K  W1 {# L+ a$ Ustyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go' u! @" n) Z8 p  k$ _3 @% }" ]: m* g
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
8 v# z& e' |6 @; Ysoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
5 a* K8 ]( {! l* J0 P; @him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go) ^4 v7 U! j" H/ ~3 O
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that
. `# q3 A9 b) c0 [% Y" D+ Ihe, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole% h1 x5 ?# G* ?5 t5 x0 k& x
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel. t7 ]5 }( V/ O# M) C$ l) T) a0 y: E
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --1 Y. N5 Z2 X2 Q" s# w7 [, u
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,  D' e8 \- V3 ^) R( A
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the& @1 b  b$ I5 A0 q
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!3 c8 @6 M; h; S1 r
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
6 @/ s  P5 ?2 G- J- N$ ]could be.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑 8 }& \6 A! w9 [6 y# Q
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
4 f9 {4 G, M* X" Y9 e! O1 {Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
5 c. {4 g, I' N9 w) Mbut 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, S) C! N4 b' Y. K- A. ?2 @
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in9 D8 d' d/ K4 s& z( z: L
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
+ E; h. _  X/ a9 u1 d(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards: F2 v( n7 ^+ j0 O' T
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
! @; U7 P1 F# u0 Csupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
5 e  R7 w: z2 i/ \- @- _- d9 qof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
, _& M3 O7 ~/ L. y"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
! }: m/ W+ e% p. O8 k"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful" k: f# Y) e) p& S
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
* A' H6 x4 {; D0 f- @hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly8 k' ?' ?2 T# S6 |3 W
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
" b) l) E" b, R' k7 f7 }1 wservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than0 p( ?% O6 b+ p' K
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to- x1 R: d/ ^$ o7 j
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
! ~* i% D2 j) Z% a" b6 e/ t4 fto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
+ ?  R2 M9 t# ]7 V) H( Jit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,! f; P8 r; H1 k( A
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the  @5 }& k4 F# X% G
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
/ ?" x7 K: T( o9 vunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
# x5 @, {" z! f  \9 gtime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're! u* R, F) m9 q# M# G9 ~& H2 H- V
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old! ]' f  s# e; @, J$ H7 @
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
: K2 g1 }1 W! P4 g( ^, mOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
+ N; Z) b. @3 o& \; Q! a0 nand don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
/ V0 }8 _! v% zJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
& `' ]6 A' f2 L" `owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,# ~! t: G' e' L' U, ^" |; U+ @$ [1 ^
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
) a) z! [- H0 PConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your7 v  ^/ r1 K; J5 [
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
( N# R5 y& D: f: A' h% r# a" cgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
2 M2 k( |/ b4 ]& b6 x7 z" ~so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
5 R- k* V9 l, C. {5 o' R2 Iand 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! w: C2 j4 R! f4 @
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to# X; z1 I9 Z. l. u( i
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.1 }! U* X1 r& z$ d
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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
$ h. g0 V1 i9 H; Klooked 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
/ X7 Y& R3 v. `! m3 g8 j: M# {describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
6 Y# g3 n2 a6 ~6 C- ?/ o& Kletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single6 `3 r5 [/ I, f: r
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
, d. t& w) R; D& K; Ccapital-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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: b1 l' R3 w. S4 ?4 `$ z'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
  i% F5 j+ s( ~( |; [' Aangry at being kept from his bed so late.
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4 T9 L4 v. d+ t0 G2 `0 K'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
7 J4 D5 H: i4 r& Clittle one!'
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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.'9 |4 y1 K6 E1 a; S4 r/ F8 k

* N0 Q& r& g' \  N- e% v'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning. M; S* i7 h+ p% q; f
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy. d* W% Y! M4 W3 j1 s7 q
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their6 j# C# v" e, k. u9 b6 ]  v3 }
i's .'
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; j2 q; r; |# S3 R. P5 c/ J'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
8 c/ [, ]& c1 a) Y) hI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that4 M3 @- |* I5 e1 }( k
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?'4 V+ P! k' Y/ k6 Z% K! i  X
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'  B- H3 i6 `8 ~( C  c$ D
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'" M4 l6 j. F$ ~$ e
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
8 E4 q: _' g4 U2 Rsome 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
3 v; R* F/ \. Y. f1 bcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
* `  c. p- ]. J9 G$ O% H# kperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) f6 |( M% @* Leyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as2 @$ q& a3 l2 K& e
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 \; X. N8 C% J5 P- w7 C
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
; K& G7 y2 c4 J: hfight, in a small way.% U; i" i5 O! Z, R
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in+ `5 {( E6 H3 @7 U
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
' J$ A. |8 M1 l% Bfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( E7 z7 K, H6 L  N# E' ]1 Lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: q8 E6 e; W2 x1 D( g7 }! N
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
" c  c" ]( b0 j. W6 ~3 }" t3 ysuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- e4 b4 L0 g2 S! V# S* R
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an  Q. O; _$ @0 `7 ~) b1 z
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
  E' L- R( L' A4 R' `heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
* N' H7 q- G( _- Z7 Rthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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- M4 E$ F$ Y  a, p'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
( a+ G) L$ W4 p" S/ Q$ |it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
8 I& V# `) S- u# a5 v( ~paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 y& E# X9 A1 s' dit went x-ed.$ E7 y) `2 U9 ^

% |9 K# S" V  d9 ?0 \& n/ z# qNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( r, Y: Z  g: f. Z3 s
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, anxther3 w. {, N2 o1 r, H8 S) t: J
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're9 Q. f. E" C. Y7 N! X
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld5 p- R6 \4 T9 o% G5 W- `
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
  i( k2 ^; @- k3 B9 E  v; P9 j2 b) IXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
) x* S0 Q3 u7 D% `. N% J7 uxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
+ J$ |+ I$ }3 AJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a0 ^* B1 \: r* k6 t
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld$ t$ f) T6 j; P0 E
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a! G1 e2 A; ~! |/ M- s
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur* h* J& u# h% O; l6 X9 l
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
* A2 }9 i7 v" U$ Q9 r. Wnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld1 u& i$ Z: ~2 ]; K  e2 E
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut9 {* G5 f& `, {/ e* q
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
, Z* n" h( R2 [! w* U$ pnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
; G$ k/ \: S; t" ^5 @; g2 Z2 Lpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
3 c! Z0 @& S0 S! R7 Z& Vhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
% r) G/ H0 o/ E3 V. e$ w7 lresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
5 X" b- M% V6 n$ |, z! U' Z: Rgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell) L3 K! u7 X9 n6 n( L/ M+ l) L; [
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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8 y, P" Q' G" qUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
8 X$ g3 x5 T, Msubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
8 D3 Z5 f: [2 w+ bopinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.  L, r: ^+ ~% ]9 @
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of* K! U# A. @0 j# S7 b
fancy.
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8 T! Z: U7 c) V, P( ~$ \/ s9 @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( S2 P  Z4 z9 @; I4 y
general way, his X-asperation.* [2 l+ J  z5 M, Z" I

8 `3 e& x  P2 l'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
0 c) k% e' k# x: ~and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some3 d6 e0 J/ F$ u8 R9 t
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,; _+ _% w* W6 `
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician  R& u  ?( y1 b: w( M$ ^
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
# ^6 q( X: `1 mbody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
2 ?2 P; D  [( Qobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.
' `1 |% C$ C& m+ G! m2 I% Z
( x; d- H8 I5 D) ^! X* F! ^The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
; D6 U5 O* R) l" G. ^* t+ a% \3 b8 Kthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
. H7 X) h" g; [9 Z+ e" V/ _5 O8 a* m/ jdeserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.$ w" p. f+ q' t7 |4 n
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
* J- o- J, t% Y0 K3 X# {2 _0 ?4 Kthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
) ~- s- V. z3 P3 O) Lpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually' R% A8 a# d0 [3 |" o
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral0 b) q1 K! p# o) I8 C
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in' o8 g: S: u" ~( N$ z+ P0 N
the X-treme.'
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