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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( E, ^$ n/ g0 s3 S& G
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
/ D) q1 V& A/ k0 V& Dperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their a+ a( c# ^8 Z5 o, {2 w
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) f; b' \1 A7 a3 f0 _* E! v! [# Zis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
# A$ i6 U3 I" ^4 wtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
) O9 h9 @; F {! Lfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in" d9 M& S' B: V4 R9 @. }, c
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
E7 o8 g% A# B* E Y6 V; efact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
! w! U, _% @4 Y7 F/ dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter( B" K2 X+ A7 K5 o/ g: J
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
7 o% k. v/ B. V Nsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
( e; ?& |' Y7 i# M% b$ M- Etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) v. a& G6 K/ H! r6 Jhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it! D. S. W0 n6 |, q, M
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than0 G. Z" M2 d' X/ `9 d6 j
the x to which he had been accustomed.$ e$ e9 _9 e' u9 p
- O8 i9 L" T1 ^7 t' d. G F'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) P! t [1 |4 w+ Y2 Hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy: s1 A5 E/ O1 E$ V- F. [
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press; g" u4 h+ o2 Z5 b
it went x-ed.% z5 P4 b! F9 }: U7 s2 {* o; Z
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
) y" {; b* c. l3 Lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:( d& O, q2 V8 w: J; e) H
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