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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 l- h, s% X3 R3 p$ {
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
: y+ O4 B/ d6 W- M6 nperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
8 Z+ T. _3 E% E6 |eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 G" m$ w" O+ a8 @is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but1 a- k+ _( N0 B: [/ z7 i
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of' z8 ^, ?+ @$ ]4 `; ^6 ?" y9 i
fight, in a small way.
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) x5 ^/ w9 q# A- b; n. \3 n: nThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
6 Y1 e% @9 Y+ kprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the) K" y0 L& m/ o. P! t
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost: q6 V. ?& T; N# {/ P3 ?! X
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter$ p' M# _* L) Q1 b* S( Z
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: q5 }9 u# f, J& `1 |0 K
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old! p4 w3 n2 ]4 U+ Z/ J& ?
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an( h0 U5 ~0 A& }- s9 ^
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it" x9 a. q$ F/ P' A# M+ M
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 F4 z& R! f2 z3 K
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
/ S/ F$ Y2 o6 {8 A. o& Vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
# e4 {( [; i5 O7 f, A' q6 ~0 e* jparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
. @& K( ]( u7 Y. Tit went x-ed.
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" r7 X; h2 m# k! C6 MNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
$ s$ O; |- ]: X& \5 b9 C( Oreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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