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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his' w( y; ^" ]( O, B6 n/ a2 }
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; o8 o- X& i; S: a
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their: H0 S! `& x' W
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as! ^ N* D9 ^' a, b( P3 Z# Z! \
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
* z) J) B7 ~# q0 i8 |: Etwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of C# u, s: T2 E4 C b, }
fight, in a small way.
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% D3 j: \1 @! l6 ^( r) E% l* d8 D+ kThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
9 o; [3 r+ x) C9 Mprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
8 O5 _& H0 L+ Rfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" }0 p, T0 y0 ?: D a
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
- Y1 A( e( z: W$ U7 b, ]8 }deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most% ^% S f( | {' i0 D& P) a8 ~
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old; b2 d9 |& L4 G9 G$ H
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an. i# g; ~7 h% ~( z5 c7 x; d+ |) I, w
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it. P" d) d+ R5 q( v5 c. s& `+ I
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 K$ {& F& J4 n3 sthe x to which he had been accustomed.8 b5 h1 L2 F3 D) R! c
% r- B u" |& {3 o6 }( V'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
+ O( ^4 c+ q: U2 {7 nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy% |! K7 F1 U! c" x$ `
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: v% ~3 A4 @1 \3 J$ Qit went x-ed.! B+ l v1 H' n7 B! z% k
' Q. ^* n: W6 l* H) c2 ENext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! d' P( G' a/ x G7 Z9 e0 q
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:9 W$ ^8 h$ g& F/ O- c" ~$ r" f
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