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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his/ A+ r) f, s( }
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
7 s+ |9 }6 a) P$ i3 J: P& @6 Iperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
: {& k1 y3 S& V0 Q* ]eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
6 z5 W4 s* M7 s6 ois just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but0 J) J& Z- W! Q9 ]. j. S* E
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 T! s7 q+ x' r. w9 e: Ifight, in a small way.2 Z3 R; O: j c
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: j" i& i% J. |" A2 s" h8 W; P
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% V# M8 z& r% c+ S
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
* Z7 C1 L" R$ t, k* {9 K* Nalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
# x# w4 H6 p9 M6 n2 p; ~deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" n; W, F, ?: h8 r/ r
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old/ u _, U, H! Y8 e& H; C
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an5 j7 k8 {+ D$ e$ q) Q$ d) i
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it6 I( a4 G9 S7 n7 G1 j
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 Y! M$ Q! n7 ?' ithe x to which he had been accustomed.
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6 e n* T8 W& ]' j'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
. Q3 x" [7 l* J4 {) @. N# k' rit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
" h( Y/ F# Y, ^% i. d+ Wparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
" m; Q/ P% W* l+ y+ }$ a Hit went x-ed.( m& H/ o' C! M- a7 G
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by8 P0 L* ^2 m- Y! x
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 d/ z+ p* P4 M1 R
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