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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! |* D1 y, A8 l$ U' H& ^case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,% x0 y2 O& ?2 O8 m) V
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their3 N4 h4 ~ }$ A; h7 L/ [
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 O% B8 b0 R- u) B. E7 _# v2 a/ fis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 ?! o; H [2 y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
7 ^. ~4 v9 d5 _fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
. C j+ J: l& kprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
* Z( `0 g! ?, V& lfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost& r+ t1 A; Z. m" r. W( J
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter& S' U9 A: U' m2 C( n* k
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
7 u; {* y$ V9 G+ usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old3 U5 q7 |8 [; S3 y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an0 v" }+ O+ ^, i- j) c9 ]6 J
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it# n# Q3 y7 }. m- I a
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. a& V E7 a8 }6 q3 H" r) C/ }% Qthe 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+ m0 o+ Z v- Z) q" `) h$ @5 ]
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy @0 a+ E7 P1 S
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% H, Y7 S! ^) P0 C6 w( U7 m0 l) J
it went x-ed.) Y7 w- @; D" Y$ W3 Y8 ]/ r
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. B1 T) M; P$ J5 g1 S+ Nreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:+ O. p W+ f) G! Z3 A6 U; t
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