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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his g% s7 }" [- [
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& D" Q9 ]5 B: i0 a6 }! cperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
E5 | @: A! d4 F5 r. w |4 I3 N8 ^eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as c" D0 l9 @! q9 P7 _( t
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; Z- L4 H7 ^& F% m3 b3 L$ W$ Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 b7 J/ j- a* C
fight, in a small way.( A7 i- O7 _3 V6 V/ T
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
* @& `, g$ t, S" oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the" K$ s; T7 A: O: B; k
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
+ u" g! K6 y8 ^* |# {0 Palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
; d" P' R7 O2 n \+ {deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most7 E( [! z% ]" ?8 r2 b
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old W: n& A3 @- p6 `1 M+ Z
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
8 A6 e$ z/ k7 s- w" _habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it, y6 u' d$ i, l- x7 d& q$ J7 E
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than) b$ h" y" B. \6 X9 F4 p7 w# a
the x to which he had been accustomed." p2 o _! S' O* u4 ]7 a( \/ b
8 Q( O2 L( t9 k! g; C0 t'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read. F( _! ]7 f" X+ E5 U( r
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy/ U- b- i. ^5 K: [0 e* d
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
* e2 D" I8 _+ ^( K. Cit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
, z" A% m$ s5 f0 ^8 P+ Ireading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! t! @2 ^8 q; E9 i
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