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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 Y4 P* k6 s0 \7 P* i
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,9 w6 ^! b# x4 R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their7 t% e* c$ R) G% h- P& D( m( F
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 P D8 B9 V7 ois just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
3 Y k3 _6 P5 R! @ w6 Otwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! L! H( a) ?0 \# j5 {/ u
fight, in a small way.' |! [. Z M* D# x% f
2 j3 }- S, `/ e' xThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
( ]; n. ] S4 T' X1 j' e; fprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the8 d" `% Z, r$ k _' ?7 u" [0 Q. j
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# ^2 ]7 V0 G3 n! O1 |2 ^always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ @ a$ Y6 O0 y* ~5 [deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: H& O7 r1 t- ]' v7 jsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 h2 }4 n8 p: s1 F. |( w& L" S" B
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 D% k% R7 G! {! i% khabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ q6 f7 ]( g% v8 X4 theretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
4 |; F4 u$ u3 Y, ~5 zthe 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 read5 g; W# j9 p7 `, _; {" Y# g
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
) s# o4 [, @. s) b% A6 s$ dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press2 F2 e9 W" Y0 D- \$ b0 @
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by* K1 O( Z9 ~7 w5 E) r1 `
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:. E2 q6 c# c$ w& R4 n/ T- b& C
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