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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ o* H) ^( r9 ~
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, q6 Q/ p$ r3 z0 I% `
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
$ R W s# Y n7 }8 o( Beyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
5 r+ h$ K) ?4 c( k- [5 V6 ^, ais just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
1 x0 S1 V: c6 P% f. U5 Ptwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
: |, U. h8 e5 J+ V) afight, in a small way.
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# f2 u5 O8 H9 R1 PThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in; z' B1 K3 v6 N7 F
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% f) u4 b8 ?( x. l4 o4 n& h
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
3 A8 J$ B5 s% A$ I" y8 Ealways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 s% x4 n* e! A, R% C; |$ A: x! Zdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
* ~& z4 A- K: J. ^' `1 Bsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
- t v; a4 y @" I8 Gtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an- U" ~) l" G5 a; T
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
" U$ a4 G v" \2 \6 Y r1 Hheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
: t1 P8 N, j2 S- N) h; C7 Xthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) }' Y5 G+ D! [! g6 Git over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
' |' n. U/ l: g \paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
+ i+ {+ W7 e% \3 B3 \& ], mit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: }; r: e" O2 G% ~reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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7 n7 p& N+ M' ?5 S- i% Atime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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" k, ]4 W* H; @yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
P' b+ u8 c- h. _" ]+ gsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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