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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
6 n3 f: b2 |( d2 s' C7 j# l& mcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,& v) h7 h, d% X/ X+ s6 e
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 d+ |1 U0 |. X m
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 h: o+ j" d j" n' i) o, `is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but6 `7 d' x% Z4 v- K
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of# B; [3 ~9 P: W: Q7 |( B
fight, in a small way. S1 c7 b/ z7 s I# e
1 c( X* N2 R6 a7 A% A; c% c! rThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
7 Y, i2 k* l: rprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
2 W) i1 i. p. _+ T4 W$ ~fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
: @) [& n* N5 G3 U+ s+ `always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
( `+ R) T3 \! U" x, i$ Jdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most+ y! G$ O- u! x
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old6 {. @( u& m- H) Q5 X8 M
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an" J) U% V- \7 ^ F, w. }
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
2 P6 c2 f6 D# G+ g7 s6 ]: @' Qheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( `) P `3 q# }% \- S
the x to which he had been accustomed.) q Q7 u* y+ r0 K+ y" D8 x! k
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
% O2 F/ d" t3 n _it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
. U$ ?( |( I! R! X% ~' {- G6 v: D# Hparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press7 Q1 G6 X- e. Y) Y3 T+ }0 n% d4 L
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by h3 A0 c/ L H1 W) C
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! z7 N3 m/ u w: j0 M
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