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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 . _7 J* i' t" U9 h9 F5 p% d7 L
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AS 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.' d5 b3 s7 _( M0 O9 g7 Q  h# `
   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
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. c3 j4 \% u4 N% h( [2 bI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his% C8 l4 C; _, w( o( f
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that/ d* Q8 D4 u' q, \. Y$ [: G' ~2 y
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
& p( R4 `+ Z+ a+ S4 S% @  F  o4 Msection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
  f, r" ~$ R# E( n3 e* i# ^! i9 `have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have6 f0 r- ^* Q! k8 `8 Y: x/ o
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
, `$ |) M* r5 Z* Khad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
% |, O% P, p5 A- ~- ta gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many5 N7 z$ X5 Q8 J; O
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
' `4 U# U# z4 T1 ~& b'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on4 |7 g: B7 V6 d
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
7 f9 m& c' N5 Whimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
; r# O! l* o: `/ xdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
! ~' m/ \+ j& w9 nobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;5 q' [, W3 _( t, e5 @) E
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly$ @1 C. j1 c4 c
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after# u0 y* w) f' L3 C+ k  g. Y3 Y/ I5 t
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
1 ?7 u& v6 X+ [: b" A1 Vsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this" Z7 S' w3 t9 k( e
was the name of the new paper.
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
: B! E% M0 X7 ^& Q5 F, F; {severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
6 ~+ m7 K7 k0 C  u$ O$ Qfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in5 ~1 G# a& d8 }. k
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I$ p( ]; y/ P" ^+ D5 y4 l  c% S
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,' T3 a' _& j7 W
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to$ \/ B, K- Y$ i* V& ]
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
  ?# A6 h' n" i% k- w% ?4 Cis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
, E* H8 R! P7 tcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'# y; U6 D7 P% h/ s& t) i
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
  g+ b2 t' I# o  Fbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of+ X* w& \4 ^, R4 A( i- p
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one6 D1 u: o0 x& n$ J
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.+ W0 V" Z  |, O" U
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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  I6 p6 r+ o% \: h4 W& ?( v'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:- c8 S" s, x9 a$ V& G/ x
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,: T3 [2 d5 q+ [& b' m
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
. l( c( V! F$ H/ {  Areasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning! z" D2 y9 Z2 T3 J" E% d" i
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the6 \7 W! `+ S! B1 r- V/ Y: b- [
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this/ T) n8 V+ g' A. P9 Y  P
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
3 k2 Y8 }$ r, G9 _6 Ygreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it8 P% w  P& u+ B
is pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
) v# |8 e$ j9 T) k, ^I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
; w! t: f' A/ B6 ?1 ehowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon$ x0 f8 n( T, Z/ s7 |0 I' N$ r+ q
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his) k9 B6 p1 Z9 W8 p; \
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go6 y" O/ t! t$ K
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
7 K6 S+ _$ @- R' h, bsoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let, V9 A: W' A1 \# _
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
9 G4 \! z) @: W7 |% U) WBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that1 }  q, N: ~, @
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
/ U7 o  c4 v0 L& bparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
5 ]2 {" C8 ^! T5 J8 Cshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
  a: O* U) o. ?5 S* c3 G  qthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
$ N6 v7 y5 {- h; oBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the; q3 p7 h* T  q% d. w  a# V
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
; c" \2 W: B. _4 Y% }/ EThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy# V) G4 Y' P2 Z. Q& E! k- b4 w
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
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1 s+ b$ ~7 c  {/ E9 yBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
. ]/ c. F* n* b. pTouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
6 y9 |7 X, ?- B* T  {: w& Lbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:' s; K3 f  p) g8 L
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
8 y: c' v" Y; ~+ r9 _the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in  K7 r5 X( _1 B% X% U9 R/ I
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
4 E$ R0 M/ O7 t, t(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
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supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism3 ?) V  q2 R" v9 U4 g& r' l
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the# P7 R, z5 a+ Y. A3 `: L! I
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the3 ^9 v" C! g( z9 M) O. l; }
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful: f5 p& d2 M' h2 P$ |
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the; m( w4 X+ l  ?
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
* m8 e& ^- |: D9 H8 anot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
; i1 V8 w, Z' D7 X2 Oservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
) n& k4 T- ~- a( T  S3 _decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to# F' R& h7 S4 Q
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
# L+ |3 l4 Y! q8 n! Q2 x7 |to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
) {- t7 S- \* a+ m6 S4 @% T: wit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
3 g. ?* ^7 Y( N+ [# p7 q  P5 gI say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the- C5 g1 N; W5 @; ?
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
8 v: o/ K( {; U/ j2 A  s  Z  ?unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another0 C7 Q: b) a0 m( k
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
9 c6 ~1 h$ ~' X' q% _8 Rout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old/ r: M, G# \: ?8 Q3 [1 \
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!8 }: b3 v( h7 |# o# H- S$ ]
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
2 E$ S0 r' j6 Y( ^3 ]and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,; b4 m( O" O: O( Z3 E
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an: M/ p5 `1 w8 z2 P( C% ^' z+ }
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,: D3 V. N- l+ U. J  ~: F$ g+ a
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
. j) R; o5 }& |1 i" ]' O( dConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your, P" n1 x3 R. _" z7 i8 U
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor2 n' c* U. c* X4 C5 X
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
' p0 b( v5 X) uso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
" X! d4 N. H9 Z9 l. t# ^and 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! \* o& F9 Z1 P  v5 o( @
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
1 N0 z' f4 c' V4 c. O; B1 @! [) g6 Ithe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.: q) m4 I# w5 q1 v- j4 u* F

7 Y6 M, Z! a; V; f: r" z- fThe 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,' -- he6 |2 Y5 i7 Q1 g0 y, M
looked 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
: u+ w% [8 l6 F: k7 Adescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a# [; W- X+ Z, k- H7 d5 X5 v
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single: T; ?6 |+ Y0 |5 |# V2 A9 q/ r
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
4 c% H8 |; b; Q' T; Jcapital-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
" |* @' l. ]& u9 u8 b3 b* I2 ^- r* j- dwithout no o's.'
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9 ]- T7 |# _, Z4 U+ c& J9 q2 Y'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
# k! O# I7 v, H8 v8 kangry at being kept from his bed so late.  W9 C1 |4 s7 e3 g9 n7 h

: y) J- ], c# ]5 @& [0 T. d4 _'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
+ n6 R$ e" ]1 wlittle one!'2 g/ C% `6 w! {3 m/ ^* Z
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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& L! j& M/ V1 Z/ ]'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.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
+ d% L* i5 m1 o. |purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
' o0 S" ~1 ?6 O: ]1 v2 N7 [6 k-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their& n( a. A  k0 R# B/ k: D
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go," V5 n! D( p# w& D3 a
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that2 B+ @" ^! y6 _4 {! ?
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
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'& S( X) c3 ]) a2 N
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'/ e& \4 w9 Q# m  U. u# R

, V( y3 I) E* j9 L" M/ \+ z'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
9 t/ W3 M! N, q. @$ y  ~said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in! i) B" M: W# {( O5 U% `5 @7 q7 ^
some 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
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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
# z$ V3 ?5 u6 W: R, m' E" kcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
) c- s& _) V! Uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 d  t3 f# Q8 ]; {* Q, S/ Geyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as3 m1 L* w# p* e0 h* h# B& U
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
! k# K( K9 V2 n5 ?  Y& z* Xtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of# p# ?9 a2 r" m! c
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
" h1 ^. j: s4 nprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
0 C. _6 X6 ~4 r  f* Bfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 S! |8 N% I4 w6 J
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
% l" z3 H+ X/ K. `deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most* @; a  Z8 _- B' j! e  F
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
9 i8 K0 W6 C1 [; Q! k$ Utimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
# ?& d" ~/ O$ c1 X" @+ q" ?habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
- @; h1 d" t: vheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than0 I+ s% `7 [* U0 ^2 G9 c0 _: W
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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  |' A) I, [) ^) J, a'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read  E3 S  t+ o) ^  v8 ~  T1 u
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
  f+ D& |, {% S. fparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press; k, j- G) G% O# z* {
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
5 |7 L' K; G; q0 p9 ]% _reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:. r- _; s! d' Z8 y
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
( J) c5 q, Z: s* h( B' d- }time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
/ _, Q+ A3 Z& j( sxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld- I/ d6 }8 P* F1 H; b6 o
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?# J: B  |+ F# ~9 V
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at% `' ]* H) q- o
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,& `9 n1 K, ?$ `7 Z; `: L% ^
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
0 V7 i6 f0 z: kfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
5 U' X) j5 e  ^! ngxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a( r. n$ r# S1 X) F6 `. u. f( y
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur1 G+ t/ h  C/ m6 P0 e0 G/ s5 d3 a
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
8 p/ T& f+ @8 H, Gnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld/ {& @( L7 @% r4 [& x; g
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
! @: c# s& L2 M/ e" ]4 H1 Usx, 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! o, k. H7 I+ a' o
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
! n  H' o+ G- f2 L% ]populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
3 k6 ^4 U& S% |; o: O6 ^- U: Ghieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's- y9 `; b0 x/ r. Y5 K* }1 L
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that8 v: K: ]0 o' F1 d8 C7 A
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
: @4 F1 a9 Q+ vhow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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9 h- o6 a% ?# Y) Z% zUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length. \& |* t- r7 }- f4 v" k! q2 Z4 Y
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of3 t- x/ o+ C$ I( Z; m5 X
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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* a- l- t0 P, r% `3 D( cOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke., A0 D# j* ^7 \" S; m  g
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more., q& m+ }0 N$ L- v% [) ?0 M( v
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
0 s& R) w* C# R- h$ ?general way, his X-asperation.
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.# ]- Z3 V0 J' C+ w9 {
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
5 ^9 ^! \  R! h9 a3 zand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
5 s3 ]0 i# i' ?) gtalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,( H4 K# k; {$ S% i5 n& R
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician- V8 d5 A" {0 U( [1 |) Y
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.9 _$ u, ~3 k; ^6 `, m
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
, B: Y$ z+ ]$ G# Fobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.
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The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
. x4 `: M" Y" ?- e- D% Y8 K3 g7 M- ythe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it! y+ `- W7 C! v: A* n  _
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.) G' n+ O1 z( a, L4 ]; n  k5 j. L
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
6 Y$ `8 v1 c. ~# K* Xthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
! Z, y# l: Z6 S+ J. Rpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
  Q9 F' f$ j1 J2 q* m. r# ha-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
  f+ X9 i: u2 \0 C) Iconsekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
& I9 t/ ]& I. h" _; {the X-treme.'
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