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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his" J' Q+ l' n6 F8 ^5 ]
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
* F( Z% p Q- h( ]perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; N! v* s6 G' V1 F$ `. @
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as \: L/ p+ i& q9 I D9 s- m
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but' _1 v$ W2 `* w$ c) n
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
: z1 a2 E e8 e7 X' }3 a6 X4 rfight, in a small way.% `- m7 S" x6 G
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in u6 g2 L# G3 h
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
' N" t1 a+ \; s4 A6 }/ `2 v6 }0 Tfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost) N. q/ ?" w8 [, \) \% T. j
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
' w. I! R. J9 v/ e. `deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most. j0 k0 M8 Z! p3 b
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ p6 C" M5 H7 g4 d3 `times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; ` [6 g+ N/ F( Khabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it' N! ^5 L4 G: o U% o( R' Q
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
$ G8 Y- M- Z/ b! e2 T- N3 i7 \the x to which he had been accustomed.
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: o( t9 l- o1 }; [4 m& |7 r'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) `8 g* a" E7 u; v! fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
; x7 f" n& s: Wparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press/ }& T8 `% F0 o
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
7 z8 S, N5 ^* u1 creading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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