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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his% k! v7 A7 F- L# M8 k7 B# t
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,4 ]$ P8 P/ H' e) \! F3 Q5 H
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their4 R. q1 o6 b9 q& l) a2 w6 L4 _2 m
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
" x, A. C- ^, ^( q' u4 Uis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; N6 d! r& Q1 R, ?7 `twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 c$ v0 c- N3 I* v5 E8 V! g1 sfight, in a small way.! @& I% `8 m! D, o; z! p- y
4 E3 i- [* j* k; I9 |The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( E% D. x/ `, W& ]# O$ S
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% R l, C+ L2 k7 h% k" f. p
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost& L3 }) \; m) |" @/ U' u7 |% o
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
0 `" R# B5 X4 _deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most. b7 B; q) P; i4 L. x- p' F, T2 }* o
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old; Y4 z1 g1 W* n: u2 g0 q' b
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an* r" X' K* V; ?$ z4 G
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
# ~$ ~# L4 h5 P% e- Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than1 v! |6 t0 l2 i' S* @
the x to which he had been accustomed.% S6 E w7 ?3 z/ k9 I3 R
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read, t6 E2 O6 R2 Y7 s0 m4 T# t
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
8 \8 H9 T5 Z9 m1 dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press, |9 y6 [5 R( ?; J! q
it went x-ed.3 a& d |# G3 N% X9 Y' h
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by8 |8 @/ |) _0 l: j5 B4 L2 n
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:$ ?# l: o' J0 ?
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're6 S8 |! J; G- B$ H4 |) l+ |5 i
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