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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 e9 H% M! c% M+ M5 `4 d
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,0 ~5 }+ J! S; _( B" n# J6 g9 @
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
! l' n2 X9 x5 \8 Y2 g. l$ Ueyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
7 a& E; A/ B3 P0 V+ H! Qis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but8 V2 R% B+ Z# I$ |/ Q
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
; p9 C' `0 N2 d# ]- R! |/ |fight, in a small way.7 V% G" f) j+ u5 K
/ O) i2 u( p0 B/ m/ _1 C+ yThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
e6 u& g; P- m- B/ o, V7 eprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
" W6 @- F) d J5 f% g# vfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost v) x% T9 p3 `0 j
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
! ^1 w, _* P3 W9 |$ j1 Ddeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most2 C* C! g" p) c
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
% z$ D" c. w* k5 z7 U5 l1 rtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an+ q2 w3 h$ l# g8 n- y' ^
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 O6 V6 O ~; G' S0 G: E! Kheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than9 [' t; t: z: M5 d, `+ D$ F
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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8 a3 V- k, D q+ o0 W/ \'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read+ ?$ `+ a# Q5 n" A
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy* E7 }$ T5 V5 q+ W t
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 c! D' I: U/ ?- g
it went x-ed.$ C9 X3 M/ K' I" m( h- O5 _
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by& k1 Z' E- m: j2 X0 A6 B: C" R& C
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:2 }4 e3 M; W) @; @
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