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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
; Y2 N% N5 a" t$ o T( B3 k hcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; f0 g# H# h* d9 }, T- B8 ?perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their" [* k; y+ {0 f& @
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
/ S* h3 ^* N; J, \' f" S$ yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 A1 T; r! |" r+ h
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of0 r8 u. d3 H9 k
fight, in a small way.
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& j" n. A% c0 {' V+ j2 }0 ]; `The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
3 h, _0 z( H9 E7 tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& O: I$ F2 r8 \fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost4 r' O* v; ~$ M" e, E
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 T9 E* g9 K1 t2 O/ w
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
, {2 ?7 o: ?* D7 b! V9 `8 C9 ~superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old" ~# m8 D! Z% o0 y1 e( b6 ^
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an# k+ a; N* J+ t5 Y" W6 `. \- O, b
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! @& ^% c/ \. z5 G# M M2 Q: u+ dheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than/ N$ Z8 J C' U
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
" r. r% q' X! n1 ~9 I& Tit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
8 g" l: X8 y$ S5 ]paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 ]; ~$ }; Y S: `+ a! N5 A: o# v8 oit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by0 v" x4 J1 E6 ?1 R1 H4 Y" V4 Q8 z
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther+ P) t' G. C# D0 H" T- t
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're. C+ M9 ^# I+ t1 D
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
# Z8 }% V* Y' a, `. d9 bwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?) C; A8 {' }. b0 L
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at P( Q) r2 v, v; V+ y
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,0 N& n$ x3 w4 G9 Y% G" j6 @ d* n/ V
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a! D6 b7 \8 e% ]+ k7 y! |
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
' e, N/ m1 w: pgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
, P, @; A( I8 X/ VCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur, ~. U& y4 y$ D
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,7 I9 A" J. C# a* q) R1 d$ W
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
+ \" r& @, H# h7 X. gyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
9 h" w4 O5 U/ ksx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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