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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe6 ]$ G5 b& z2 \- j
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一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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# P/ M; X) S) @. x7 e7 f" o8 f' BAS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.
; R) ?5 X$ }1 _; g/ v& F' f0 p   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑 % k9 }& G! T$ B: b
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his- \7 B5 |1 z$ P7 R* Z' N! k
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that5 t* z2 `, o# ]
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular* \8 w5 m* |7 G+ a/ L
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
  y: C* `& X7 x. W4 J( q$ Bhave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
, x4 i. c1 Y* pdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
" X; E6 a  \# o! w* A+ k$ qhad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
0 Z! T" }" M5 L8 m$ H" Ga gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
  N' m# L" H7 P, syears had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the, }8 I% a& C# Q. V# q
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on
' l4 d5 r4 c# R+ Kaccount of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
/ ?7 l% `5 M& w3 U8 yhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he2 b) {+ u9 K# x  o
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for# h) l9 g5 D$ s. s
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
/ m* p0 d0 n% y9 C. }7 ahe unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
7 R; D8 Q, A: Q- m$ L' o. H. f# }opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
9 S% a+ r1 C2 y$ ohis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
3 G: m2 O% V! e) dsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this+ E/ [- |% ~* s: S7 Y
was the name of the new paper.
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5 D4 k5 h' A% g$ vThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say9 V. O; a0 v7 C) Q9 z
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
' k$ L& q# p! X, H& Zfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in7 M1 g' U: a5 m
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
: }" f- `# P* J* [# Uhave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,9 s* ~( B* @( }9 R+ |
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to: Z* s: @/ H8 T. z
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
) u$ Y2 `+ c$ P7 S! A# qthus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
8 b- R* @" z7 w. i  ^; Jis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
: S# l5 w7 K$ @9 B  Jcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'* I+ d( O& X7 @  K  b5 w7 z) q# o

0 L" e! r& y0 C$ `: NA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a' Y6 L* K: o7 v/ k* [- L, u* C
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
& a# U- M: p5 H8 R# n" _excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
' ]1 H0 N1 l  C( N  s4 Sawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.+ W3 P5 m2 A/ n
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:* _# A+ X6 i2 H
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
9 u% k" S+ Y6 l& y- A1 Ftempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
1 w8 i2 E$ y, Z* @reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning3 u' C$ d+ l0 r
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
, r7 m4 u; y: R' w) L  Ivagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
' G* M: Y2 Y$ \O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
' f7 o, \. F! _! K0 h% pgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
* d7 w4 y# ?) H* R% y7 v7 S8 bis pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
5 J* l( E8 X. d# QI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,6 b+ z2 V" P" k# Z6 e7 M
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon2 h. ]" Y9 ^0 H" z1 Y
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
' ~& \  k& G: g) vstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go6 \! P! w" @: P2 s0 U( l
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would6 d$ S  L$ T- l% @) {5 A
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
( F5 M3 w4 A: Ohim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
4 ?. V7 l$ i/ b" E% c% xBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that) _* j0 T3 h6 T7 [
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
, y3 a; x6 `2 V* v- _- U- d) \2 Oparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel+ E/ j. q/ Z( d) v
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --/ `8 u# {: D) H' F9 n* k
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,1 o3 F- e6 f& _9 ?, Q
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
9 h/ d( R4 }: Kcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
0 Z9 K3 v2 f, Y( CThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy- o  I2 O; \1 a' r. H: Z
could be.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑 % p' l1 }; P4 l* m/ Y
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great6 j9 U  {9 R4 f7 D; p# E2 l2 F+ D; w* p
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple+ c0 \: P' i' \" O" s
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:9 z: {" t) F* w: k  F' E

. g, h- V% D1 s; _; ?4 S'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
0 N9 U$ b) v: k6 n3 Q* E' \! H3 Dthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in" z+ h+ ^4 u! |: H, Q" R; K) Q
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
, O  N$ A6 D, o, S2 K3 h(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards* f* A% N  v+ W5 Y) w( I
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
7 _# G' M( I3 t  y: O1 X3 y( @6 \' _supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
9 A! v+ N' S. X# ^% l* Sof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the% k, e2 c3 Q5 H+ L, ]
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the! c5 S& v8 A2 z& o7 o1 d  ]
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful  P5 \. w9 p  M! K$ }; y# z  }
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the+ j  f/ s" w( @
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly- y* }2 E4 a+ i# Y
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
! x% ~+ z7 }; F# ~1 |servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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7 n2 y/ ?5 C2 `3 [6 @) y# B# HIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than$ \1 H, F# x# b: Y7 V
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to% `5 |+ ~& F# p* v. Q4 Z; c
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
; H* s8 [8 ]+ `6 B4 w8 Y/ Vto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that- `' g0 S7 _% S. e7 C
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,5 f8 j- \. L8 N
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
4 q; m5 k. {8 X* I9 ?midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really8 J% g& {7 C( N" i4 U/ U
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
0 Y% A1 Z* T9 L- D1 i- Mtime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
+ m) ?; K' S& {7 [out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old, A$ i" ~" L. u3 w8 S
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!  ~7 o+ H1 g4 u
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
" _- ^& A$ c7 c) A3 }8 v  R5 v7 band don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
0 H/ b" I) n, O9 J8 a# aJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an5 D  E4 j" n6 t4 Y
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,0 S1 J/ `$ B2 s! l& ^* f1 A
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a, o6 J! Z6 a: r% z% j+ q4 R
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
: {' a1 K" _6 t* \* X! pcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
; }/ \4 ^7 [, m8 @. cgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you2 n* @: ?) S' d
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
1 [: t: Y  l& g8 k4 V2 n, sand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great; r9 H0 o7 T% G9 i+ \1 X
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to& A+ Q* Y7 n/ i) v8 C1 a( _
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.$ _5 N8 v0 s/ Q0 r7 x. U
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
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In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
( N# e# E1 E" G( N2 O1 z+ Xlooked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can5 e8 p; I) A9 @( @: e
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a( l5 o( q% D& x: A; ^- k1 m
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
/ D2 U) v4 }$ o+ c! t; h/ Z7 a- [little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
+ D5 n: u0 s! ?  q8 dcapital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing4 Q; d( m0 z0 T5 \3 w
without no o's.'+ a% }' ^; G/ k# o8 T" T7 X0 ]
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
( n6 g' Y( {- I0 @" kangry at being kept from his bed so late., \, l, f* A, m' m
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
" ^' }6 F" C: Z) d. Mlittle one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
$ r1 {- |& }, I( ^( dpurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
+ X! Q$ k- w' G3 \6 F; \4 Z+ ^-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their! M' k* _. W5 W1 |" ]
i's .'
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
! l; P! G% H& T2 AI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that% H5 Q; P5 Y% o8 `/ Q& Z4 n
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
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'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'* S3 b) k2 Y7 ?0 U# m) V# Z4 b

- O% p3 a' e; e7 ]# v8 }) m. u, S'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'& i6 B& w: X- d: J  D7 T# q3 A

3 K5 e- H& z1 l% c3 j/ W5 e'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
+ ]/ a1 M( ~+ Qsaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in6 {$ a8 `8 o2 m2 O, k
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
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ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his2 I/ ^' G+ w5 y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
4 \9 w6 @4 `0 k: H1 i- A: aperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their: ?1 I2 R7 e3 w0 c
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( S+ l) l3 p, C: iis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but# z( [0 v5 B/ d; w
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
& V& @! {3 R' i- n: Ifight, in a small way.
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  b' T2 V3 J/ I* XThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in6 l+ D3 ]  f) B) R! f4 b7 t% _
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ V: [% s9 ?1 P$ T
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
2 a2 e) t% d- M* S1 P) Malways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
: B( d  o' C+ o* R: Rdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most/ b  A- e. U5 G9 o$ B/ E
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
% O" S5 ?$ n# P* ftimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
/ ~$ c3 e2 k- ehabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it0 U) T: n( v. C, A9 X' ~3 n; J
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
) m/ \: W2 |- z# V  J! athe x to which he had been accustomed.
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  e' {: X+ _5 \+ J$ A# m'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
! [: h7 a. k- S' Yit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
: G$ n" S- o- k2 n/ S8 [paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
; d* R' N! R# Kit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
% F' p$ {3 y# S* q9 Z$ k8 v8 Yreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:, R0 L% s* B; w2 Z  K7 |/ `
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
( C2 H' G6 g5 N. i2 d+ Etime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're, y; u( X7 d. f7 X$ R, n2 T; w
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
0 K$ z9 _/ m/ ewxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?  Z( i/ Q! T# {0 ~4 W
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at& t' j5 ?; m' H' U  G% m4 d4 r
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
. m9 |. R; [6 X- p" `: W; IJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a* z* m9 z' r: L+ B1 d
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld0 `5 t7 Y+ X9 ?1 H9 A
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a# ?6 y! c1 w( e/ @
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
3 G! X, |% ^! r9 s. G$ ecrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
% n/ v  U8 j# U& P, A) y2 `( e) }nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
1 S. }5 Y0 ^9 F* k) r8 U. Xyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut# f: ~: m& J: {$ Y& e' u
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
; e& m+ c2 B, J7 v+ s& @8 D2 s/ @. Lnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the) [* G. j) n( x5 J$ j
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
5 `7 ]# a# [8 }6 ghieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's5 R3 T" `6 R, D* w3 `) C. `
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
) m& Z( M1 P% C  c! ]& [3 sgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
4 d+ a. X8 P, }) q& Lhow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length7 t' f4 Z% t) D, `8 }
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
1 U% b; C3 ~: p5 q5 q. ?2 uopinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.( o7 g0 c0 I1 G% D; q% g. x
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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- i' z: D: d  t9 G' d3 @A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a8 ]* W/ l. S3 {$ S
general way, his X-asperation.( G$ ~3 J! B2 F: z. o
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth." F- ^/ {/ P1 ^' J6 @+ K

! z9 d/ d  m& ^5 |: QThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
! V8 j8 Z+ S4 D$ gand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
+ V0 o, p. I3 b0 l+ s' ntalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
" r$ d# P2 @% f( OX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician& B0 u" m0 p$ T; v4 c" n/ a+ I; t2 D
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.& a+ T, _$ t, g# {7 x( M
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly4 I* h7 H+ j4 I2 k/ ]& ^7 p0 _
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
# H/ I  o1 x7 V" O( n9 K1 T" X' S4 ]: r% F; b9 Q
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
/ x, a: j! ^% q7 b& ?1 u4 Z' uthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it2 g" v1 L8 E6 K# K
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.+ m7 c  h) E  M& ]
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
0 w' S, d% f* h$ U1 b2 c, Pthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
" g9 V  T) {4 u: Z& Z5 Zpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually! b1 Z7 Q9 c" K5 k
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
' z8 L8 y/ W$ K% i+ Dconsekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in- `+ B% [+ G: t
the X-treme.'
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