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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his2 v$ W c; J3 Z, n( Z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
. u9 S4 x5 ^0 H4 c' @perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
4 N) R- j" E9 `( a) I! V( D5 ^0 W) Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as: n& M/ S) } o( } Z
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ m1 g, F' F, ]9 \
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of, p# X7 Y8 |* y- u: i
fight, in a small way.# O0 ?/ C* o8 e* G
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 P0 c$ D5 P- n4 g. @printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the1 C& p$ _: @9 B( k7 L
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( [ G! M5 c) |7 \always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, t2 e$ j4 E: R
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 l$ u2 q, E" V, L Q
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old2 r9 P: W/ f% [6 X
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
Q* r$ @1 f" r+ yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it; [& B/ {1 n; ~
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" ]: ?$ e* Y. m& _; q% m
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read$ W/ }6 u8 i+ s' D1 _ ]
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
/ v }' S1 P! o- t3 B3 eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
( |: z1 N3 [; t- e% Q: t! qit went x-ed.8 X5 `* v2 N0 c: v5 R9 Z4 v! E( f
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by- D& T9 ?" G9 Z
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:+ D' b+ x9 l) f& H9 B) G1 d T
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. d- { @8 P: Atime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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