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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
' s) O+ F: x1 w' s F3 \case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,' E. t/ U6 @5 ?% m4 ^$ \
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; j' I3 h5 k# m# E! j( `eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
! @- h+ E# A- Q9 U: X8 mis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
1 s/ ]; T+ Z8 M( Z0 [0 ]twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of" O3 j% Y p3 }7 v7 f( D9 F
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
# C5 U- c( v; g, H- cprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the' e& F. i' _4 x
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, V& j; u4 b: T8 ^' xalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter6 S7 F5 a4 l* p$ d$ C; {
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most9 e" c. C9 `1 B! n0 ]
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 H" E" Y0 k: _2 \
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an. S" K5 M7 ?* U- p7 _! F
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it- _: w8 S" h4 P2 o3 S
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than$ z* S5 c: B7 Y9 o% T
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read" J) N: A- f! p2 \; A- d
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
3 M7 ?/ \5 I7 b( ?6 Dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press9 b, y1 q6 E" [; y+ ~7 J; K. S
it went x-ed.6 O+ Q: l' }1 B7 P3 p
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( \! Z5 V( z) Z, Y
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