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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
$ R9 p( ~6 @1 ]case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( v# V4 _5 _) A& s6 u, E# vperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. F& `5 E3 w/ k a$ L2 Q
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as4 } g2 `7 ?( w+ z- u
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but0 X& J8 a& ?( l; l! I
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! p9 {$ L7 {. ]5 \
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in; l0 S( K" g. |# a
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the' h i$ }. s- L8 E
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
% @' e* r% @1 ]" g8 N4 N1 Falways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter0 I. X- I" ]4 L4 ?3 t
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most% o$ w% e7 Z) p
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old5 n$ ~+ Z/ \* |' ]6 S* M
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an. D* A4 o/ B+ v
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it2 l% u$ E. d# C& H" U
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than5 y, m- w/ W$ n, ]
the x to which he had been accustomed., O) x! I( J- Z( F
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read) z8 j& A$ a( m. o8 j* r( p) Y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- R* F6 A3 o( ]0 a; m# ~
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press- T! w d& G9 [. |
it went x-ed.) G5 S; u( N! ~% { e4 p
/ r/ Q0 T4 h4 gNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
5 {' H: k; Q: f, F6 z5 L# lreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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