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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his- K: U# O3 y4 W& W
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
, p7 y2 z' o: ^perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
0 [& Z) k# @0 x7 w2 v2 keyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as+ d) W: k7 o* O
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, U6 q- h; B" [* T4 }; t. t# itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of+ ?7 q$ q) W7 y% x$ l( e( H
fight, in a small way." @# h" ]; W/ k4 r }+ U! I- n* ]+ p
T) g) S5 b! a1 A: {The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in; h% m2 y- R; p3 n( D
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
1 h) |+ H; @ Y7 a. {' Nfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost* i" F" n! b0 @/ t& f! B) h
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
% D0 z% r. E0 Ldeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: ^2 q- o+ r6 h; w4 B! asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" F, F F; Y- W& o* P8 x( Jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ \1 T7 f2 ~4 o! Vhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) |) j7 C0 y8 d8 y, Yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 C2 s4 {9 J% L3 a# e% H! T# t" W
the x to which he had been accustomed./ |1 Y" N9 M0 ]* R4 `! n
' }0 {5 U" A$ T/ o: t8 i1 q# h) ]'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ s5 \: e' }" `7 b6 ? eit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
# Q% C& m7 u. y! e* P7 cparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by5 u* e' @' e% G4 [; U8 ]; r' K
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:1 w5 g9 R( S" G# i8 q! S2 Q
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
& G5 S- Q% `3 L- QJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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$ u: d7 m: g: b* b3 B# K! tcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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