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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
- G; O5 N z Z( U: _5 j, p; c rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
- G! m: E4 ]9 T6 p' K' G' ~perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
3 V7 u' W; R5 C" weyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as% F2 r% i7 L! S2 ?4 {; I1 ] h
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
- R9 w+ `2 B' n" j7 \1 `# O9 otwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 Z9 Q: |6 w# A& `6 @8 ^: ^/ Afight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in5 [3 u _$ } i. E) ^6 F( x
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
5 Y7 N. Y- M7 B7 yfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost2 C# }: i" m5 t8 ^! f
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 t8 u$ a- q# K+ y3 ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most9 K( c, Z1 P) e( \9 ~
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
- e" w5 r+ H) X) Jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an3 M. X: t# N- v+ Z
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
[; V8 O$ i. _- F" Q7 H* @heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than2 u; x& t; ^' v3 }2 r' D6 j3 v
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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% l2 ~4 h" X+ _ a'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
2 h1 r8 F8 x! n' I' |it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
9 ~& h: x5 b1 \4 F- B* l+ _9 s: eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
5 l2 Q6 @, p6 |it went x-ed.( s) |& A8 r$ y
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
* J: J; v) j* q9 T' d9 E3 freading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
: ~6 i* [/ G, ]5 e& m; P9 Kyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut1 J+ m( K; M9 p6 I9 d
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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