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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
$ g f' ?6 @# z1 Z; Bcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
/ c$ L5 T& b9 sperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their% Z6 |* a4 v; c! r
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
" _/ E, v5 Q3 \9 W iis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
$ _; ]! J9 {0 V; y5 l* xtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
! y$ [$ ?8 n1 k2 ]- J6 Yfight, in a small way.% f: [6 @& |: c5 ~, o* Y
' L5 _& s" y3 }; T$ k( g. _5 [9 ^The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
, i; q- y( p# E$ |printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the, F+ C/ `. V) p# `- g: R1 D, M+ ]
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost& {8 D- ^9 N& a0 L$ t8 _
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter9 ~7 a' k- j7 A$ M: m
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
* P- s% s/ K4 H1 w1 H2 [6 Qsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ E6 Z! {# j* H5 a9 o, {times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an0 |2 Q) w# j5 I$ Q: m: _
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it) R2 [9 N3 K6 R) q; \6 G
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" U( r: s( V2 H8 F$ Y4 U( ~& p# Dthe x to which he had been accustomed.$ _ @3 R& h O. F
* F* k4 I& h9 }7 [; k0 I" o5 \- ~'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
# n- n4 A* b; W; R4 Tit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy; M2 _5 c3 c0 B& m, W6 ?
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press/ J+ s7 X4 P. f; U4 K
it went x-ed.
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! g1 S, l' U* n- W$ e& v! N# B9 ZNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
5 Z; Z( v7 D* m+ Rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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