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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
: S6 F+ R$ d; K3 K. B4 a1 pcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
' e- i- a2 e: Q# C* u, Z Xperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) Y8 z2 }6 N; }: _7 i- l& S. s; ceyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
1 P# x/ {& i+ v: H$ {& d, Kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but& O- M+ A( X) i: z; v
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
( E- J; g- w; A$ w+ Rfight, in a small way.! _9 J2 [3 w( U* J% x
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in9 F X! `6 C7 F: g7 n
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- R4 ?0 N) q: Q8 o% Y9 vfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
4 N, j' ^ S+ v1 lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
# u" _( t" h/ Y' g6 d$ Ddeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
" T$ Z% V J$ n3 x* A+ u, ^superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
! f( C" E6 G0 E( y) G/ i' `times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an1 V4 h7 K, w3 |9 y1 w
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% p7 U% y; C3 Y% L7 T9 ]' w1 H9 h
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( v/ u/ q1 n; K& O& J1 w8 Sthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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6 x" ]* e- }: m/ h0 V2 b }% h* F- @5 f'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read' X1 [" B. s; R- a. V1 \
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) K8 }4 `4 {. u8 |9 a
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press) `+ h4 f0 x% y" ?
it went x-ed.4 u1 |( x8 c2 D
7 X4 r% @' n" y. {! VNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. F; \. ` y; }reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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