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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! y y" [5 ` R: K( e/ J+ Ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,: m4 D# x, H( {6 f& v* [9 w9 x( Q
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 a+ V7 h$ ~% O" K2 }
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# I) g; V* p/ e. j# U
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but) s* r f; ^" v) f- [ C7 X1 |
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 R$ `, y' q$ U( a) {( Q8 Wfight, in a small way.
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; w- B \9 K7 i) h5 B u" r5 ]- lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( E/ I4 z2 D# m* p" R
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
) L+ W0 ]* V# X4 O/ O; h/ Mfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
/ p3 b: q3 _; Kalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: u4 ? r) P) b! Y, _6 `
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most& h7 d- [* M a9 b) ^
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old8 [7 j6 s; X, e$ U3 F/ V
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
& G0 { n- W% C( Y: Ohabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
: I* Q2 }7 i5 K* v2 C$ {- S( _) mheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
$ e$ Y2 x* Y, w+ n/ g# Gthe x to which he had been accustomed.$ [- p3 ^, c" n: K
' C$ v+ G& s% l'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 B# H x% p9 C
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy/ a: y% {' t2 o* q7 \) G3 Z6 i
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
; ^- P+ g5 g3 O# |& O1 ]it went x-ed.
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' |! ^8 [& {! C" xNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
' l) J+ O1 K% b# k) rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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