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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
2 ~1 ^: h* H6 Z; P& mcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( q" m/ i. E ?perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
- t! V( [+ A1 C4 Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 F0 B& V5 \' Dis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
! k- O% N r9 Q- Ztwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 {$ s2 E% p) h, R5 z3 z
fight, in a small way.
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+ ]7 x) G: W4 Y& ^" h, l; XThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! \# G; M. c k
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% n4 D& j" P# I- l
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost) V6 ]1 n. H8 V) \ j( f6 R# t
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 X' R0 |7 E" N, e, Y* N
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
0 I; p m( ^9 Tsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- o$ F1 ^* I' y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an! i& A% q' d6 @/ U) J/ R, z, ?/ m) Q
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% w7 s. L) A- m. V+ X: e5 ~
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. ~$ U4 L* ~3 z7 d! X, o f2 {+ ythe 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
5 `2 u4 e* F( c' F. Uit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) l( V' g8 B, B+ P
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press Q% u9 ]$ f) [
it went x-ed.& e+ f6 N( I! ~1 ?. Z- ]
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ K& m- A, I; M2 u$ Z7 Z* J
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* `& F' n0 y7 A. g1 ]
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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