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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! J$ K- ?0 Z7 scase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
b+ r. S7 Q& l# ?- u; kperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their `! l: k# J# ?! M( H: p: X8 B
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. i' @: e! u8 I/ d# h% g" z! f
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but) J: w, m) O# W+ p* I( J( Y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
& p6 P) p R4 i. t0 nfight, in a small way.% H, Y- A4 L8 q6 {2 I( F" z, s* p
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
8 A1 z5 `4 P3 [5 J+ `* M" Mprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
+ C" x5 l2 {: q+ K/ Kfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
' c l/ f3 \9 K$ v& z( o% ^" Salways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
* E( s7 g2 F+ Y4 b% g+ ~deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
3 W3 d0 K! }/ X, ~superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
% q2 ^; G7 l/ _# Ltimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an9 O* L T; J w) ]( k5 q
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 ]* F5 y4 T1 I2 U2 E6 N3 k8 W' Zheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than q1 }3 A* R' ?+ Y# T
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
; U, E6 \- `+ K% \5 h* [) z( R, h* P3 Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- \+ g$ X9 V. h& @, Eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press; J5 `) e9 S) {3 Y8 g* D
it went x-ed.: g) m" ~" b. z% U$ N$ }0 x$ ?9 e* M
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 P" G% t( \3 S0 y, [reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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