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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
1 Q2 I5 @0 s. S- Lcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,- o- k% P6 g0 d& {: j
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 t, h6 W0 P5 j0 l5 N. z peyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
8 \' Q; K9 b3 {4 P4 |7 S8 F; cis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; V. @& V9 X4 u) s5 ^. v8 F3 Jtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of" F: `) r+ q/ u, a$ g* y2 M9 B. [7 o
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
+ Z- ~3 {" d* l3 `( `9 }: v3 tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the/ z* F. [, h! N" L* q; q9 ^
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost% k9 Q) Q/ E$ r* s, ^! T
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 d" T4 o" r& L' ] k/ _deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
* f; O" T3 R7 S8 Esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old" G) [" g4 l v$ Y
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
8 D5 H V, f; zhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 X8 H \- q# t( Eheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
9 B: N# Q J9 y' G* @9 rthe x to which he had been accustomed.3 @" Z! o+ s4 h- }3 z$ |2 f, x( D
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read4 r; Y. o1 k# e7 Y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ C8 W; s+ k8 _( p0 N
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press; {# X0 _- Y* s9 }9 l
it went x-ed.0 ?5 _% ?( T7 F$ q8 s% g0 C" `3 R9 e
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! j& f" k0 c e% ?1 E: c; p
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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