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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
3 X5 Z1 @1 T- S9 @: e9 b) [$ Rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
* n8 ^1 L/ A [; i6 z9 qperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their7 _) {- ^9 h# M1 _
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 c3 u; C% m2 t) K8 d0 {is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
* n- _8 r, l5 Utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of+ V6 ^; u3 [7 q" ~1 R4 t. a
fight, in a small way.* [2 i! n! v3 e4 _/ h' h
! v. z* _6 [, X* O) d7 F' mThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
9 `& j- L9 L7 iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& z% _# _# d: }% u+ t; @/ y/ ]+ C4 gfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
) z: o) v7 t' M) I9 n+ Falways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ ?& F+ U- l k( Cdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most) k$ v0 M0 U/ Y" f! ?- ]* v
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
! P, M: g2 C9 V/ n7 Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" g$ u6 }- T- V3 p" {$ shabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
. y6 a! n- D6 X1 Z& Gheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than6 _) r8 S! H' g2 v( \% m
the 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
' _8 Y' _" b, T; G* Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
6 n! L6 Z& l* z' u, lparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
; g7 w$ t- |" W; P zit went x-ed.( J. A# A, L) r+ B4 b3 \. z0 `
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. |' }( E) h5 Lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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