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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 {4 x, r, c5 z0 x# mcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,$ v# B: ?) c, S+ L' P x& R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their k8 f" L4 T' j
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
* B( B. m7 G/ q2 \& |0 @is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ N2 h! ^0 |2 q% n. g
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
% Q5 F9 x6 Y; K, ~- Vfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& N- w$ m9 H4 z. u# f2 O" w
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- w) r+ |" P& `! x9 ?fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost! _3 {7 ^0 p" u3 g* ~) }
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter/ k1 D T) ^ o5 }" P- }
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 I* m) t0 ]) h, s8 L$ ?! |9 ^0 c* |superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% L/ Z4 j. f6 t m* L& q) n
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an6 D6 `3 P, ~7 k, a u
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) ]' x8 L# z/ ?% Y B5 T0 yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 o$ B0 s4 F8 m2 ]: D, C
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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4 ]/ j1 z+ e/ i+ w'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read9 ^$ O/ n$ k' U; g4 ^9 U- k
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy9 G4 }3 W3 f c5 n
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
7 f4 T, v: B+ k8 a( ?/ |- iit went x-ed., Z$ e5 I c; A+ f0 P
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; U, \8 |: S: A2 ^reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:% t* D) g# H Z$ ^9 g9 C- [$ T
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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