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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his/ c' ~ \. Q z- P+ _ [. ]! O' u
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,8 N" t7 [* [/ `) S4 [
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their- x# p( Z- I6 V
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
$ k- n' r* |0 I5 B2 N; |/ q: Vis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 L I! ?/ }- [) r* k0 Ntwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 ]' r6 ^ u/ [9 S. Mfight, in a small way.& U: L( {, |, S! _2 q
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
) U9 u7 F( @ hprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
$ V2 l1 ~' n! m8 Z% afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
* ^9 W3 g2 ^4 M7 E: R' v Ialways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
) Y" [1 X3 a) B' [5 d7 U0 P/ ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most% B8 Z1 g) {4 w K# c8 w
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, m+ @" D; P$ q# c/ W3 U5 dtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% k$ A; _" Y: K3 s( @' ?# B
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
1 w1 c% _7 b' X: R$ j' N$ _heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
1 ~" ?, B5 }9 a5 k6 Ithe 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
7 c% Z3 G3 C1 Q. h7 N8 h* Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, u/ n1 s! X g4 A
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 [- H$ i7 _, a* v% E3 \5 ?$ iit went x-ed.; W+ T2 m# k s: J& W
0 s7 B2 i' `$ n3 XNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by# q; `& ]: m) m; R2 g* S" d( A" y
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
; O4 f; E# R7 S) t/ f& x3 W6 K9 ctime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're+ H; r) B" L1 h _
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,1 u4 b# u% M2 U% {9 D
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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