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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 a0 B# k- h0 d! y0 \2 ^- H
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
2 v. e8 \0 d" d6 c' b! g# Gperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
2 x0 q# N- e6 a. p% a1 Zeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( {) ?5 U# d6 n& qis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
+ k# C; g. A* K9 x Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
& n! Y9 {2 w7 V0 m& Eprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
0 I5 L8 W" M% J# Q" B" J/ q( _fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
3 [ O y" K& O- Calways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter6 m" L7 |4 t% H0 f
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ i6 A8 J1 ~ asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
7 L) g \9 \3 I& \) `8 `; m; `, P3 {% Qtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
' ~: J: _2 S1 R( b. nhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% h9 o1 V- P9 g
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
g, n- j1 ?& K* jthe x to which he had been accustomed.% c# B- @% _8 h6 \
4 y$ E q% `5 m# w4 X+ F$ m'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read5 ~6 d* H! r+ u2 A
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
, D' R: N! j+ m9 _) ~paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. h, J) U( p+ i: [& q' l" @) K+ ureading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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