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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his7 m: U& h8 X4 u, t, R
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
3 [6 i. W9 @0 i: h/ V2 mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% ^) c# X7 d* i& K+ keyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# a5 D0 Q# w4 p: Z" Z p. z- Z
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but6 p! V' b2 }' i# j Y! t' U8 U R
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 k" u& J1 F2 o2 Efight, in a small way.. p* Z7 j4 G+ r; i0 f
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
# t7 X: n. K. g" jprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the" C# `4 k# v! I& y' J, r
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 s! k8 t+ e2 m4 @6 ?always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 C4 V3 i, _. U9 E; @ ?+ X: {* cdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" h+ ]2 Y0 }- a5 E, }8 s
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
4 i: q9 p" l6 H4 c4 ptimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
x) H& @. H n4 _' Hhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it8 H) P: ~0 F0 O/ Q5 j' |
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than# s# G, t. N( z2 O% o) O8 q
the x to which he had been accustomed." K% m) O$ G7 Y
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
: G. o6 P8 j4 mit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
7 H/ J' ^* j+ E# p [2 b3 Nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press. F1 \6 Y5 B8 K' s* l, B% J
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 `- j" e2 F4 v& }3 t, @) p4 Ereading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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8 F0 p; a" W o4 J: r: ]4 ycrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
# @, J* d: P- E9 A: h, [3 inxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
! `# H g9 {: e% pyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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