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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
6 A# b( }8 t) u2 [/ \, ?case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
* z: y) g. q$ r- ^) W# ~perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their- _+ u/ O8 M; i+ W, h4 Y
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
, ^2 u+ ?. ?( Q# Wis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but* T) H' X/ g4 L# j
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of; m# K$ t/ K) a8 h) j" b2 f
fight, in a small way.
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2 z; J$ f. k6 M9 L7 F L9 t) I( F; [The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& z8 y% Q2 k: o0 C% k) S0 e+ s
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- @8 T8 s4 l8 Q) H6 {, ifact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 {2 J- P9 t& c3 Salways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
& Q2 ]1 q' X2 r+ F* _deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
( A; t# D2 p k! C; r4 K0 B. r1 msuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
% e* I i! h& M- v+ Xtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
. h. a; |6 o8 u. Y7 o& e' y+ Thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it" q) O. l1 U* ]& _' x% ~& C x: a
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' S, F, h, ?4 Y9 |- R3 X% D( g
the x to which he had been accustomed.3 G" n; ^ X$ t7 e8 z h
) C2 |5 p5 r+ V& _: ^5 d'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
, b; A! e6 @$ S: A4 J9 V* Q0 Q; W0 Eit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy7 ~* v0 w3 G% U2 {2 x3 U3 a9 }: S
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 p7 X3 a; T, X6 e& Wit went x-ed.: P1 h4 l0 G6 }0 K* ^5 G
# q1 \1 K" V* q* V! nNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
7 Y% x& x/ R- c4 M' c2 `reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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