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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
9 \- l3 B+ Z( P6 Ecase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, o& \/ `5 j# S
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) j+ c/ f9 s j0 r/ ~* A+ Geyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as- H+ }* o% k; M1 @5 V
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: M+ } O+ G. u: E1 I
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of* n" s5 a( J7 B m. F! ~- \
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
+ A: `$ f$ U- ^' ^printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
5 X/ ~1 H T7 {. g' F0 b) Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
" ^+ ~9 _; t5 I) s7 s5 xalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
f& f1 ]7 F$ N$ P" m, F/ Ddeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 ?7 g) k! |' C! ~5 L% @1 G1 f/ \
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" U1 W9 e( ?' }4 x. Y% ~2 @times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an2 Y i0 l5 q4 y& S
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
$ f6 j$ [( _' H4 y. N% d2 Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
' w2 Q4 D6 w: E0 Q7 k1 e& w8 ^the x to which he had been accustomed.# t; ?/ h% [& q8 G
. s( _, |, U* q: A'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
0 S: r2 \5 O' Q2 J. u5 D$ u1 Zit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) s. K0 s: T# I! b4 x& @0 z
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press, E- {0 l0 N0 S; |2 @" {: |
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by0 |. } D7 A4 F! k2 M5 e3 p# q: L
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're2 @' f' X6 c1 i h
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
@# `: i6 h, t# c S" Swxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
/ C& L9 g9 z# I6 sXh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
$ J5 D0 r8 p+ P6 `/ Zxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
/ U: C+ R% B! U6 SJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
4 C. d& j) c2 U+ m: g, c+ Wfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
+ C( v# D* u: u- Ygxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
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6 |$ l2 ^- I( S" n: n$ @4 ^& Icrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl," a) g% m F( J; g' {: P
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld; h4 j* b0 ?% b1 I
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut; t0 A# H6 P+ ]. M" M1 E0 ]3 D0 M
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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