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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
" Y) P& M: K) E6 F, W: n, fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,/ N# v) m7 q& j4 }6 ]
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their, v! I( g( c+ N( e& u5 k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
! Q: f, C+ c+ X; Lis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
# L* H7 F& d8 ~7 f, `6 t0 u0 \twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 ?5 } b( g0 I* N/ @% N% P, p% p% c5 H
fight, in a small way." e" W) b: I' \" [3 n
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: u: v& y/ f; A
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the; @4 h1 W& `6 k6 S \/ Y) N
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 e6 ]$ T' f+ N2 F
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter* U3 D4 L8 D4 O! i
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most( h, _5 A$ z1 Q5 E! z5 D- w
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old7 F, ]6 C a( E3 B; g
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an2 T4 D! G7 K5 L2 P6 V
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it5 v4 P: H+ \) T+ I4 J
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than/ ~4 w- @ L4 W! x! \" Y4 t
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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+ p9 m* N: b3 S7 ['I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ u$ I: `6 ~8 ]" r1 L1 Nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy3 z$ d% U. j! D. ^
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press$ [% b9 {/ N- ?% W1 K4 N5 P% l8 y+ f
it went x-ed.
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* Y1 W; V3 i$ K( U i) K: ^Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by& Q* R. M! S1 `1 n v. o
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:4 y# z6 |9 d) \9 o4 ^) R5 r2 f
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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