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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his0 g; h' \8 W2 u8 Q6 g, Q) [2 N
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,1 i2 k2 d2 x J: e) V
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
2 K# L$ f8 X0 m& keyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as$ s- } A. o$ n6 k" @+ x2 D
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
7 V5 H6 V2 V$ o( H- gtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of: M- }4 | Y1 b4 I0 f/ x, g
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
* Z6 w' n4 o7 Z( pprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
5 B5 ^0 n' C3 H' {# r: Rfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
u( B& b. ~% x) H- galways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 e5 D/ V. j X
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
$ Q$ X6 O( o" N( G! gsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old; }$ D8 D$ Q+ g" o' R+ w
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an0 x9 |, t7 w8 h4 }8 ~6 ^1 Y
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 t2 O/ E# |6 M. E. Theretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than. L( H' o. q& C' L0 X1 d( C
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 o4 g8 [# }, F+ ]'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read. Z% J) |8 r i
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
# x/ f+ U0 o! pparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: a9 b. A) d! y4 f7 | G- `& ^* {it went x-ed.& w8 n; {$ r/ Z" F. y l2 e% L, D
3 l6 g; ]( ~5 H; k* X& U! WNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
+ O" D6 a* O$ ?+ g0 Nreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:7 C- q9 Y7 Q; a) Y- g8 C) h
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