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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his K. [0 s% s& l# q3 \ l
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
7 @0 H' G, |5 O/ i# Wperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
: K: n- f4 F6 I, V7 h$ i1 Oeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) O) [. \* E0 |! I' U, I- }# ais just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but5 ]' q+ K) V- \6 L; Z
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of3 r3 T i2 ?4 e4 l6 m
fight, in a small way.. c; I J8 ]# U( z1 X5 \8 j, r# P# T
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
& e/ a; R7 a& ?2 I M# t4 }printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( |* k) _/ W O: _' q2 e5 t
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 m5 D/ ]5 i R( R
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
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superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old8 Q* D$ K. m# q0 h5 D3 t
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an: B2 h; E. c5 @3 m1 J) H& v
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it( y7 D* G( |% W1 Y: v) L x
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( l. ] `; M! Z% X1 z- O2 ^
the 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
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paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ w$ h. s0 M& w7 R- k. H
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 q9 {- v- s9 F% S, P
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
6 Q/ _- d5 `+ m( \time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
* ?9 Y2 e4 s! ~% wxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
$ {5 q' J) \7 vwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?: H* I% y. b% C4 ]" w2 S
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at9 E; f6 X2 i0 ]5 v: W5 h
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
7 v1 e" a& Q$ ?0 PJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
& }5 K9 r& ]" ~fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld z6 S* O9 k- o9 t! P7 Y) z
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
' }* }& A) e% g+ K) E1 ACxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur1 q$ `& R( @! n+ e6 U/ X9 [) w& N
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl, R# {, s* K! Z1 Q0 n/ M
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
' K; [5 A& B( D7 ^9 hyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
+ ~6 t+ E h8 x7 C/ `sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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