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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
8 E5 H9 g- P$ h6 ~- qcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,5 ^1 N7 v4 z. t1 e4 ]# d
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
. H. O: x0 B* I3 D8 @eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
W* c% k" e F, tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, F2 n* G2 l" j! ~7 U: Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
0 g2 [/ X. \8 B& q: p2 _. pfight, in a small way.
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8 V! J) S+ K" \, [3 fThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in9 r; n; B( u8 L
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- W9 o! y2 K1 t8 Nfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost, ?% @) _2 J3 Z, U) }% J7 A
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ O8 T) @% [7 Z) @* xdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
' ~" ~3 t$ H/ H" v% xsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' A8 I9 `: ^# v# q9 @! Ttimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an- w K! m! Q6 G$ W+ x
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it, v( A. l5 Q) g" Q$ u* A: u- b
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than. e. A b- Q7 a, d& }6 ^. p5 Q
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 y( D. r/ |! @1 n2 f7 Y+ ]'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
/ l0 ?: ?( w/ l4 Rit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) ?4 y$ s- w. V+ D4 E' [
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# t) l' H* m \& q3 P8 l
it went x-ed.
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$ @; X2 V/ K2 RNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by; b, O* b8 `+ \( R+ {, G
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- t8 W1 e/ y. o6 K. q% [4 J# } K
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're) Q1 I- i$ s( k5 k0 |; u
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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Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur; l8 S& h% P3 p+ u
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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