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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 v8 V5 P# v* j6 S
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,) ]3 b# \. p1 T8 I
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
! x+ t9 \2 u, c! feyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( t ^! w7 p# w# \+ [" A2 e0 Sis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
! Z, u1 i$ b: c6 ~# R( @twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
) C- {+ @$ x! x8 G& V. gfight, in a small way., L+ T% m7 s. f
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: q3 [" l( I$ }0 s4 c: Q
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the3 O/ O, Z: T/ J- A+ k5 P' C
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost# x+ y0 {7 G) N9 w8 C0 l( r9 z" y
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ P( H! R$ P5 ]* J+ w- a: S( Q' E- J tdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
# E2 A4 p% c3 m' f" Z3 Dsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old+ c# G$ s; @1 h9 [' L0 l5 y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an1 S- A2 n1 z6 |0 g' K" j, `
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 q* @4 w; V; c6 X5 g5 U7 u- Wheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than& U% m0 m$ i+ t
the x to which he had been accustomed.+ I+ M7 w7 q4 }/ K' X# c
, @- o% D7 d) R6 o3 h'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read2 ?, h+ e2 ~6 Q2 z/ Y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
: b9 y3 r+ Q3 |" v( P, dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
a: k2 a5 {( ?6 b0 }9 L- a& C5 h6 git went x-ed.8 n: R- X( I5 P5 z
/ _9 O* w( b, _3 B2 pNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! G3 y/ g* L- U5 a% T8 K
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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