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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
3 T* X, c5 b$ q& q% e9 ccase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,. y6 E: J' |! y6 R. W% F! w
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
( o/ u0 T; u( P- d# O5 S/ oeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as7 Y- h9 q- t+ `& z! \. u
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
6 q# W: }7 [7 ?- N q3 Gtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
1 j& K0 ?, x# T8 \1 `fight, in a small way.+ f" u/ ?; E& ~2 _3 `
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
' |+ b) A9 [1 e% L+ E" Aprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
4 m8 K8 M7 d7 }$ q; v. B& \6 x Tfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
' R9 x: L6 G$ [always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 I% n& r" U$ k
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 t4 e0 K" [: c+ L
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old3 y( k# C( D9 q( j7 X2 ]6 x
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an9 N! k: z) A0 d' o4 y9 n8 v2 s a
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
; O2 F0 G2 x/ ]( Y3 rheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than1 K$ u# } g# h7 T! C
the x to which he had been accustomed.1 ^- h9 r9 V! `; U. w& K( U
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read& x3 K N3 E2 ^+ f- |" F' S& q
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* Z1 _2 C- a, i% Iparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
0 t% F8 E9 B* }3 ^ W; q# Nit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
, V# m/ \4 O$ J! b' @4 x# B, treading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* C" g) }" O6 C& z) N s
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