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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
2 l) T# v. L% k2 `1 Tcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,: |% k* _( L9 l" }( O" j: @" R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their6 S5 u$ _* e& n3 ~# a
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
. _" _# o8 s+ ]' L) R, w+ Kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 I' i' P1 b! b! c( |5 u* Stwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of) c& j5 d9 Z6 k0 Z, \5 N, C: J
fight, in a small way.
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' J1 p( F: e) ?- @) m: @The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
`2 U: i9 P9 @5 W5 n" Lprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the4 I! F. O0 d( f
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 d2 t' F/ @$ n0 U E) Yalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter K5 k' L$ J' B- f, @% d
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most7 I; \( l% x) H+ p" I
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, V2 V& ^% q3 Q [$ I, ptimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an" v! V. P z# ?
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 z, }. W+ r9 _heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than- S7 W3 A8 K# B
the x to which he had been accustomed.0 \& h. i. p) Z" R i) N
4 V6 c+ C M+ j! ?. A" }2 k'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read0 v: ^$ p, {$ k+ y( P- u) S
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- r' O \2 Z2 P! r2 U, }6 ~ }paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press" e R& K! g! E) g( ^
it went x-ed.7 }2 J' J, d; H% k, D
4 t0 i. n4 n# ^Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
& [% B' D, h/ X# zreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:+ ?( E m0 x3 r' s# c
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