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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe6 |- s9 q1 J( t! {1 F* s

2 O4 f3 v" q; y" s* r一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.9 N; [4 q5 z1 a* V
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑 . [/ c0 M4 |- n  D' M- Q" F  ~( N
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
; U; Y3 S8 x8 u4 J4 E, f' emind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that0 H: ^% a4 T- N6 A* _
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular' j* u3 c  }1 s3 D* |& X# l
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
. _  _% q9 X# D, ohave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
$ \# W8 @  W$ ?- N8 {dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
7 o2 f8 y1 j- c& s. L- chad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
# o1 I' ?' n' R/ b6 g5 x9 O9 ?' `: P' Ha gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many: _, \& J$ \4 O
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
$ P! e& I& l) \1 L) |'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on( R0 T, t( ]' S$ k7 Q) N- v
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
# B1 e# ?, H6 M$ O; hhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
; K. D7 c7 M. k" ~! h7 J8 \did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
& U# N( r( w5 M$ v: y2 l' A2 Z7 aobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;/ w+ ~. R- ^2 c1 j. M# d6 C7 F
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
4 z8 h2 ^' \$ ?: D" Hopposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
1 L# U: k1 @. uhis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to9 N0 P; J/ w" v' v
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this0 K! I4 w& ?, u- @
was the name of the new paper.) H2 l- y' K. e8 k" s. X+ q3 G& }& B
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say* T6 L, U; R1 W0 A2 ^
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
5 R) a8 z: M/ ufor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in8 L$ E; X7 w. p' K; u8 L6 R
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
7 b6 @6 J1 |. ?. E3 ohave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,: j- |+ \4 p+ D' g( {  E0 K
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to. u$ ~. W$ V5 h$ q; F0 O5 |( l
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
# L4 T; p0 A9 v) tthus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
1 r+ N0 C# R- p% X, \is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
3 ]5 y0 M# \# v! Wcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'6 [# l% M3 E3 W& J
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a- `5 e8 W7 L: |6 @% N
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of. [$ S+ {% v0 w4 C1 m5 A& V
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one6 r. [  I, C1 _
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
. K; N. ^7 `2 [0 `  c0 RNext morning it appeared as follows:& H6 t7 i2 f& w# z- C( y. J

2 z% b3 k$ P4 }8 j8 b9 s'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
' ^$ T! ^* l! g* V5 G) h4 S"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
- \4 V: ]+ u( T: C, w2 qtempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
/ J4 W' z) C5 q' \1 X+ Sreasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning6 [/ K  d) x% I0 @. B8 E2 ]) g
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
% g9 L6 n! k9 F9 _8 Z* lvagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
& U/ y5 J' z4 c$ A& j" bO-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
; m9 V3 t$ g& W) r0 Q: ?' I7 Jgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
# c; f9 t) @( [. {) b; _is pitiful."'
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3 l+ l4 {+ d& a$ E/ r# ZThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
/ q" H$ S; }0 e* q1 }, G; oI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
- a- L7 V& ~1 ^5 i/ t: `4 [however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon$ u( N  F( z" s' `! `, W
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his7 R4 @% v1 [/ @* T& {% G
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
+ f# B; Y- {5 L# `* OBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would7 A5 k- |; `! v' C6 `2 `# ~
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
: F* B- o6 l# `+ q; f5 ahim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
- R/ \4 f' z1 M2 K+ n- P$ f$ JBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that4 M) R: W" X4 F9 |! ]6 Z
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole9 ~5 B( e2 ?* q0 {
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel2 A# C- ~) e% C
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --/ F5 |! x6 M1 \) R5 S
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
% w* g5 m* i$ U+ H8 _Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
: v8 b9 E% ]) q  X1 U: Pcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!  D+ c5 ]' O  X  U$ Y
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy, ]( d0 o( B9 c' k
could be.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
/ L. D" X$ y0 B  s" `; ]9 HTouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
$ i! Z$ M( w7 J  rbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of8 {: `: X4 `+ s0 G+ O/ M9 [
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
0 f1 B8 s' U& K% x( n, ptomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
% l1 H2 u7 y2 w% D6 g(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
+ m: f5 @% ?8 Z5 `* Rstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the1 c# W2 c) p- H. y# x* }
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
) I" Q1 q* Q% }of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the, Q5 I9 n3 i2 B. o7 j: V
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the6 d& {# r5 }1 ]# n: R7 ~8 H
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful2 D  f2 s6 \. [2 E* Q
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
0 y9 r& e" Z" Thyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly& @+ o3 T0 f' x/ @
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble/ Q  |- g! P7 v3 M
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'& h: j4 D  p) t8 P

) k! H2 b) o# uIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
5 F3 e% k7 q- K  a2 qdecidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to% |0 l1 b, {# F
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go7 `/ h; Q% O( ?9 H2 E2 p# _
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
/ x- w2 _8 x1 a4 N& n; Q" K, cit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,2 p3 l8 u5 L) E
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
& _4 }1 e1 h0 n0 @midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
3 k8 a* d' F- B. n. b7 G: hunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-) H+ \* [& ]4 a4 ]+ V

+ b) K% ~/ {% s; B'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
3 M$ M, Z$ h3 H! j' _time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
' V; B  c* G2 ~+ Q+ Gout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old" x( Z( ]( ]0 U0 o
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!4 O% R, q& e6 ?' ]6 Y+ N
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
4 k% B% B' v( _2 w& @5 P9 @and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
) J% i% J  x6 D2 W, m# P/ J$ }John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
8 P" G; i" K6 y; L, {" B3 qowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
' C, _7 X' L: p  T- }5 s) agood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a# s8 @4 |$ m% \) i4 @; I, _5 `
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
2 d1 Z2 X6 v! ]- @crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
* R! H; d$ R$ W2 D7 X3 A& tgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you4 V1 Q. N4 c; y8 C/ X, G
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,% W+ w/ m1 m- J* B, [, X
and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
6 ]6 S8 Q' a1 X( e: K, eTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
5 f9 F% p5 l; z  @( X3 rthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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4 p) l4 m. ]5 H% i1 ]The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he! a8 v2 `0 ^# U& U- w
looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can0 l9 x1 O1 E& u$ `1 [+ {/ S8 @
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a# Z/ [, K4 a9 {' \. q
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single4 w8 b; U2 _" U* f1 q% ?
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the/ u0 l" G; L0 E0 N; y' n
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
( y4 W" g6 E) C7 Y9 |5 owithout no o's.'
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very$ C$ G. i# E( R
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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' E" c$ i" ]# D6 w  ]0 p'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
' p" t( h7 X# g, }little one!'
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4 g3 p% \, [# X0 b3 Q'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'7 I* H' t4 {. f1 F; ?
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning% `' X4 H. u: ?7 F! m! x- k
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy( A% j" D+ R. X; M
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,4 _! z* q" a; r. G( l1 t+ y5 h
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that+ W) a( S1 B  t
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'. h4 Q+ l9 d- a/ o; S
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
! {1 r1 k0 \  m0 Wsome other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
; t& o- h5 R( t4 acase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
2 j3 e9 ]3 @: Mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 |1 @! O+ }3 E7 a; p2 f3 q* `
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
* e' ~# U  A( Dis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but. u# i  i' p) n
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( r4 A  \" B! M* B+ X
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% [" y; r/ u; \1 B, H# iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( R1 |& q7 ]4 }; u
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
. o. u# M' a; lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
9 P- n' G0 y+ {deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 s1 ^& I  Q- f( {- K) T  b& isuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" K5 a* M; T3 S/ t" y# Itimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
- |8 Z( _" F* `habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
' K5 |- D7 R. @1 x( [7 i: @heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" s$ e% Z, ?: A6 @2 E1 pthe x to which he had been accustomed." ~2 B7 N4 m0 G% b0 M5 H
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read% |& w6 R2 @% ]4 ~7 [6 ~( J
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
; h* I. O- U3 O$ Qparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
5 o" P  i7 A: T. M& u" dit went x-ed.- W- c  b5 q) z3 x6 j
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by  ~( I- k% Y& Q2 `, }
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:' i" O. v& K9 ~- L

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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're8 L/ W" ~% n) L5 M$ l. A
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld& d, b3 `0 s+ z; m$ ^& E
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
$ {2 U5 b5 K0 o: H( ?3 ]Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at$ K7 ~, ?2 o+ P& }6 `& e1 {. p
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,, j. x0 t& [! V, a/ P3 l- J
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
- x; E6 S) t- s* y- vfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld3 K2 M1 m' W. I6 X! Z
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
; m) U" I: ]- G5 }8 M/ ^/ ?: y) dCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
; u8 o; g/ y+ g: r/ l2 I5 m: P' g( Z" wcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,! F7 N2 T, b( z3 [. z* d
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
/ o& F4 }2 ~7 y8 N" w6 p6 h2 d: lyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut1 X$ z9 |) ~, W' b" n
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
5 ?- ~! F0 ~1 unot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
- ]: I; i6 E* o. Rpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the6 K" ^0 k+ i& z, z! r0 x
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's+ B0 S4 `$ k6 P& L  I9 M. J4 J  s
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that4 I! f% R, |4 e& U
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
9 E8 q2 J. I1 |how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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. X/ f+ V; D9 H9 i8 Z! l/ _Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
% w- I8 g1 W' ssubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
/ t1 \* C+ ?; E) Q( ^opinion about this unhappy affair.
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. d4 Q" i4 Q0 y2 d5 d9 `One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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+ M2 R0 u+ |, ~* e* h& B, jAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of" `# {5 c( y% y% B6 u
fancy.7 m- Z- F* x. d) W9 a7 Z' A9 Z' `
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.% W$ n7 f% j3 T9 A; b- @5 N# l3 U( G
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a8 B; N* M6 j$ p: N4 }
general way, his X-asperation.' p( N7 C# w/ p  K4 U, j6 s- W

9 P; a) O" O* F: [: ]9 b: s'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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* @. X4 k( U$ m- \That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;" W$ E# o( T& `. R- |
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some- t! w7 ]5 n0 x( t& K$ B7 }3 y, Q8 U
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,$ i5 d9 B* ]+ g& y) @
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician& ?3 P+ ~' m6 e
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every./ l# f$ j  ^& u0 _  {
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly. U5 `  b- y/ V9 L5 ~
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
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2 {. m* J& g7 K9 R$ F$ ]The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
# z; E4 ?2 v' Y6 z$ j* F. Ithe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it3 }2 P- E) F* R" F0 y- p% g$ M9 Z
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
5 ^: h  j2 a8 I& f: lHe said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,7 U- f) c" [- f8 c
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be( [& b& v" E3 x9 ?  D1 o5 u8 c5 \2 d
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
5 o8 Y# N, N0 \$ q( `/ r( b) c2 da-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral  A( E& p. B4 S0 a8 w
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in7 H6 w$ {0 _( s1 v* x: b
the X-treme.'
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