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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his1 c T# y; v1 S K9 n4 ]. W
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; }/ P- q9 l& _, jperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& n; [: ]& B& U' I" @0 x* p
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as- A0 u4 O. B. D; v) A* d1 l3 ^: R
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ U3 N! [, Z) @! E: _% Q
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of. Q: D* w; U, X3 m7 K
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ n4 b, `/ h* p8 b/ U! D% a
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the; ]* [7 f5 i% u& e0 `5 w/ H. s9 V% f
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# N9 X8 C0 ]$ ]+ oalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 \1 a3 h# O; g7 v, J& pdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
' w! {8 J+ B$ x* y6 G* esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old8 f, [! k1 R7 d t" G& l5 x; K1 P
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
# J/ O4 u* x9 s5 D- yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
4 X; L- I1 g1 I v4 j; ?heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 [/ r; F7 [8 u1 O1 gthe x to which he had been accustomed.8 a9 W1 k& Y* v3 S# b% v- t7 K! u6 T
2 m0 z3 N4 _* R4 N/ E9 R9 C'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
0 b3 j5 k# H5 H7 u+ T2 ^! {& tit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 t8 K3 v& Y( `. H, H
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
5 P2 n' ]& S) X6 V6 _1 r% Eit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
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