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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his! w1 V6 C6 R& X, j$ Y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,/ T/ P8 v2 L1 Z! n( v2 V3 Q, y
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. R% K2 ~; D2 l% I( O* [ _
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as+ v/ v8 X5 M* [, ?& Y* F
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
4 h5 h" N( q3 T3 a; ctwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of- {% @+ F; j0 X9 T6 M
fight, in a small way." e2 h% O4 b4 ]; i* g' M
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
/ ~6 X4 z* {! Hprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the |9 R* |6 n$ _5 g/ y$ ^
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
5 P; ]; ~+ h7 n3 u/ Malways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter! Z+ L. ?, d/ ?: Q0 Q. G
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most% v* @9 X: X8 ?) m K7 V' r T
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old' f* n# w8 I Y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
2 Q) } o7 G# A- s, Jhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it, w8 @' X; B% S
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than- e: y; K1 L. }1 W1 M# @" S( [
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 `1 N' B$ D& V# ['I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
+ d7 t% Q2 Q( X/ vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy* g" h' _/ A) k/ c
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 A( U) @0 G9 ~( N5 zit went x-ed./ }) u' r2 _2 j6 F7 S+ I
! p v# P( ?2 `& XNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 H; x; m' t# G; ]0 L
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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