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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
0 }2 a) A7 Y# i; hcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,1 ^& V+ g5 ~2 m7 A6 T6 O& [0 c0 m
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
/ L* W" t/ E" Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 U- O( I9 J3 H8 j Pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 l# I3 u, D( w$ o- ftwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
; u+ o( f) Y$ R+ g6 {4 p' Vfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 y$ L( W6 v3 c9 t. bprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ P1 I! v. e5 q2 M' t# k
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 i" J2 f( V8 y6 i% d% V% Calways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter$ ?) @4 q: g2 X/ e7 S0 ^
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
& i8 f. x' S& L8 ], ysuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
/ e, }9 A/ T4 E$ itimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an5 L! A; c- P. ?# D# z5 r
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
+ R4 k+ X, ?9 B# I- y6 Jheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( m7 j% I, _5 c- l& m T% 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 m1 Q1 R2 l" s( A9 |+ w- S6 }it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
9 z3 n) ~) t9 T& J9 wparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press \; R' v9 I" R! y7 \1 Q
it went x-ed.3 C& ]% F% {* P+ A
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
9 p4 E, S# N8 T5 h" a% Rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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