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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
7 ?3 p, w# L1 |; R- u/ scase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,* m0 ?. T2 Q& d B6 U
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
* X* j+ l4 G& c+ q4 ~1 Y& C, Feyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
0 E+ y2 {$ r! {0 A' o( ois just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but, J* `8 o' q) q! m4 C) Q, C
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of) V/ }% S. j3 T1 @* h, h
fight, in a small way.3 ?% t$ b& I1 j& e
G1 {$ n& m; @! Y) R; |9 \The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( ?. `3 b! a8 F- P) J4 l
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( ?* a- o1 H2 r, m& }: Y
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
2 s( H& e$ I+ a( s) K, dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter# P, [9 U: i# e
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most$ o2 X. ^, V, M) d/ H U
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
/ H$ N9 L$ W* n7 Q6 @times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
, A3 _- {, ?; ]: bhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
: \) s! ]4 v {. p/ O4 h5 eheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( u R. e3 \# E i0 Y5 Q
the x to which he had been accustomed.! {+ z/ v. d$ y4 m) ]1 d
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
; T" V4 E! P' v: i. Fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) m' ]' e1 k; P3 K% y `
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
% w) v5 N) w+ w2 |it went x-ed. c5 _4 e- u0 ~$ ^6 j
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: t O7 g, {' H& F7 ~0 rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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