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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his/ y% o* }7 |4 }/ X" J1 W
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
g( G" s0 q! K" _3 \ nperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their+ M+ X+ w' X( n7 y1 n1 J9 f
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: b" ]6 `& k5 G% W7 A$ z3 q& l% K5 Bis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
$ r9 Z6 B, C* ^" Ttwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 B' {8 |& b- Ufight, in a small way., w g. M7 S( f$ N
: x4 x, R( e/ V; f9 g* @The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in" d$ H2 I, R1 ?: L
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the o* j3 @( P3 H3 _2 I' a
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
% e/ C2 M% d( D) r: e, Kalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
: U+ L1 N% N% q/ e$ u! C+ R7 q7 I6 V5 tdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ j- [$ l6 p% B( isuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' ?$ O. J/ \5 I, otimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; i g D$ {' K5 N: }habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 E. D' F) z# B* d- T5 J1 Mheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than- M/ i( J) x9 U/ z: x z0 U9 a4 a( q
the x to which he had been accustomed.9 H1 y0 {0 C. A9 f. f
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read8 C: Z' Q7 R' m6 {. p3 \* t: ~
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 B2 ?' n* g1 i6 Y. N2 y/ R# ?
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
, j5 G0 b% G4 K( oit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
! ?3 V: h' V" n0 ~1 l% f w% Breading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:# L% H, Y% w# O/ n# B& V
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