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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
7 E5 i) Q% i* r$ {case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
' y& c+ b9 V) j1 ^, eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their$ `% z$ F6 b M8 Q0 t7 I' q2 G9 R
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as: A. j4 n* e) F. s7 d6 \+ z/ B
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but8 c* I% F+ s# R" ~8 P
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
5 Z1 S; y7 p0 x9 mfight, in a small way.6 N* m( N$ |4 O+ T4 [3 z6 a
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
' ]% t: d9 e" \printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
Q7 Z" N1 ?/ N0 g ^fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost+ J- V/ p T, U2 U
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: F% c3 \8 B& A
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
. \1 @/ k/ n* B/ t; N, Lsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, c7 s4 F# u7 W5 S. V& Y8 E, [2 ~times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an4 w* n$ H2 z; z; I6 v1 f, Z5 o
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it' V/ e$ J: h2 F! D
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than0 o3 N* e9 N2 @; _' k, Q
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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. c. k0 D Q0 V+ i* i) s6 R'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
- d: y# n1 x+ A; {& J6 B6 Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# w" Q) ]; M" L
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
" B* M+ P k) y4 e$ Qit went x-ed.
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7 z, d: w7 M" t+ t3 x9 cNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by3 ~( R6 J- T0 Z R, ?9 x
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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