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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his1 S' q, C1 F# R' n. {6 z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
' u9 k) I1 H* Y* F/ Nperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their0 _4 w, n' B/ z k4 x
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
j, c1 s* w1 s8 lis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; v7 D: _/ A( w0 Q m% R! f
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
+ d) H( h: u3 P# X9 Q; cfight, in a small way.! W) x' o) t6 k' e7 B( Q( V5 Z
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in3 Z6 o( k- z7 C8 q
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% k7 X7 B% F3 |5 z! E- _. V. kfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost8 R$ E/ u3 U! r& X; A- D; A) V7 }6 b
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
& P o: k1 c6 Q# fdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
" B5 ?: h! t. g w. }superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
2 i/ i- @: N- ?, r* `times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
. a# {' A3 e s: C! z' @habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it) j1 _4 l+ f2 I2 u( X
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
7 z6 J3 |% Q. P# d3 Q0 U0 Othe x to which he had been accustomed.$ l! p) x1 k# O
$ z9 ?/ ~& T4 u'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read: q/ T3 P' _& h' b2 X5 z( N
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- \ l& @; o: `paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 d; R4 Q( v4 f. P0 m& p9 s2 }
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by% h1 V! ?! X9 `" Y, d1 K
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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