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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 o- f& Q& B1 E2 F: x% v
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,1 |: e, q X# j S% y' t( `$ Y
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
# V, T' U0 w- Z0 Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. ^4 t$ A6 n! m2 X
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
W" D+ H4 }" Q/ z) btwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of7 ?( f+ E. L# l
fight, in a small way./ c3 X' e, C$ @* h" d5 l$ J* M
0 x2 O% O0 X1 nThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! M* M, R& e9 E2 o0 c# Y
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the) o- _ l& d" M v
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost+ @# q8 [0 @* o! K2 `$ H
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
1 Q; f+ Q( @7 P3 G4 Ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most( E2 h( r( g0 g) A! B
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' t2 ?/ V' ^& R+ D8 Rtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an; O- J4 H9 d( _2 t" h% a
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! Y: h% y0 p7 p0 L0 zheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
K; A7 x- J1 f/ ^the x to which he had been accustomed.
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+ c( j" ~4 U: [1 O Y5 Z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read& P( {- r0 X: l! p" k0 V- `
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* B2 C) R! |' A S7 dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: {- T2 f) W5 H% W$ hit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by$ ?: C. ]9 i) I
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 e* K9 I+ i6 R. f
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther! r4 L1 \$ ~1 ^) A, o i6 J9 `
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?! f+ [+ V: a! R: W3 q
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
" E C" a/ O& v) ~; }" V, rxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur6 u3 J& F8 D; @! [4 K1 T# m& v4 z
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
# _, G" V! t. Z) s( Hnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
; o7 W4 q0 U9 M* ?* Oyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
/ g" N) m: j7 [2 Q4 J, Usx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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