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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
6 u9 @$ Q' r/ @case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
1 Y. s7 O% G* |+ |0 b7 e( O$ operticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their" C% b+ M+ t5 E; D6 b- E
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( D: t7 b; C! ]& J$ F+ p& @: \
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
9 ]6 U* c0 Q# x- ~; k% xtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
7 Y. F7 N: Y, t' S7 }) Qfight, in a small way.
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3 T, I3 `) k% t) uThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
0 M3 K0 j" c# }printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the5 ?4 U; o8 o: F2 P
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
& C2 K, E% U* x& y. T- z c- n" Talways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter/ v, _: M7 n7 Q6 k N
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ _- _ T) l7 r& @0 M0 |' Wsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% l/ n* R, `5 ^; } q& ]& s$ Q6 X+ d
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ {3 }4 O4 c" Z6 i6 Q& mhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it* X4 ^, w4 J5 m; i* M
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
7 r( c/ `/ ^0 ]) j' v1 Ythe x to which he had been accustomed.
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3 G* B) K$ B5 T( T; }$ E3 l( [& {'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
7 |1 E5 D h7 c, p7 \$ ?) ~it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
; L; |( X) p+ F# Pparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press5 M$ N8 l# j1 ]( |
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 |1 e( G2 V) p' jreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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- ~9 F* X6 N7 _( l' {time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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9 d7 b' y" F0 |Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
3 |5 I" n- z/ \6 K' [4 ^; Vcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
2 e& i5 t. H& Z2 G% \nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld4 ^ Q) X0 P. l- b5 p" b$ D& q
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
* S8 V) t; h! Q# ~9 l5 usx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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