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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his8 |0 I9 C# B) W9 T0 q& ?4 O
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# a0 q [3 ` ] Tperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% p8 O% Y& n( y) _( H2 _eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
' D" @4 c' O- A: [& ?. N+ S3 ]! cis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, E4 g1 Y b% b! T$ O7 f @twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
* m' C2 }3 t3 Kfight, in a small way.
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4 o$ h7 o5 u. U. b1 T% f) E0 jThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in# q) F9 {. u/ m* O; e- g
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
7 [/ [# d" o0 }) ]fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost6 M2 x! r# x, x0 N4 Q
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
! H/ N7 y) ?9 P; t% _+ g" Gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most6 C8 h; V! P- p2 I
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
: F3 @! z, Q* `! Btimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
2 m1 I T/ U" p; ?. ^/ q+ @ Ohabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) x$ r% e' ?6 `) Xheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than8 M( E8 P" j. U: F- h& j( |& u
the x to which he had been accustomed. ]8 H7 ?6 i. V- H, X. M
& s/ b8 k( i3 H; ^: p' H4 C'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read1 s, [1 ~; w0 _$ p( _, J4 P
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
6 Z) d( u0 [ C+ |. W0 T- ?paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
) B. q+ o8 u7 B' k2 n, g3 fit went x-ed.9 L* p; t. I3 O, M9 M
+ R0 L F% M& |( P. Y& bNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 `5 X4 A5 Z D4 N( o) N
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, anxther( W9 c3 B1 [ s
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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. f* X2 H6 w9 X0 P! eXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
* Z) D& ?7 y2 D3 O( w! t' j. K0 Uxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,+ b [6 I% F: b e
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
! U" h4 i; L/ i" M$ t$ l# N8 Q) M z* `8 S9 ecrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
8 w4 a) R3 q0 y' ?. P9 N; ~nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
) b' ?. ~3 x4 }2 m& C+ C2 Tyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut' X9 m3 e3 P% C6 s! T
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