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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
( a; w. P3 ~; _, q" h3 p3 lcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,8 B" ~( y( r' n" {- D7 W" d) Q* N
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their% e$ S' A. z0 p: g
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
. F1 w2 Q) \5 b+ ^* ~+ }5 uis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) w2 B5 a) F# C. I- g& ptwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
0 U0 C2 a! I+ Y3 |- Zfight, in a small way.
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$ H. {4 E L2 G2 H* c' `$ h! ~% G; ~The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
; K; C. g9 E- r' Uprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
7 N+ [) a D5 f8 Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
. c5 U) I4 ^4 Y% d3 `( dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, L) E8 V; x5 o# G
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most/ z3 N$ s m7 A n% u. D) A
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old. X1 v. p6 k5 {; T2 o5 e
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an5 ?1 R' O1 v2 V
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 ~/ _% M9 w Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
; @. v% G1 g# O1 i6 B0 Fthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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& N" o) C# u7 g( t7 N: S2 z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read- H( k3 [( y% F
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, z* V3 [1 X2 Y* t) W# z4 i$ a" I
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% E7 R8 A& z @' g7 I
it went x-ed.* V; j1 D. m$ X3 K" t# g
4 c7 ]# B/ R. J% _) ^8 i8 tNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
K. E9 i B* w" f; K0 Wreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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