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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his, K: \3 t3 e9 R! D
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
" _* \6 b9 H/ z3 ?perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 C" w$ z, {, w2 i; h& U+ t0 \eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as0 r0 Z1 o8 q* A- U, o/ }
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 x% H5 E5 R; gtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 L4 J& z# X; R; D
fight, in a small way.
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7 H5 `9 d8 t. H$ L" u- j# a: CThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
$ U) w% o$ ]+ X( _2 Cprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- e; v' T! T6 I1 A f! F9 ^/ dfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
: l' C7 q: h2 q+ balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
' C2 \: |" M5 L! v6 T$ udeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
0 b, ?4 C4 w, n6 N& I) jsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( j2 F% y0 X+ ]% {3 g; \
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an$ Q1 r# p0 y5 A# q
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ t6 O& e1 b, R; p7 W7 \% {heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 \$ @/ r- ~1 [" }8 R1 p
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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+ K H2 h( D8 h& e( @'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
" P% z# p! X) ^7 f7 Kit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
+ C/ u8 W6 ?) |& o. U# S* Yparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 M2 a5 \4 i( b) u3 Cit went x-ed.5 M" E E5 V& p! A
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
/ h$ i! P" v1 N0 a8 q& [reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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