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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
: F8 w4 P) t9 Y1 bcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,4 c8 R+ t+ c' Q- z
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their1 T! P! Z5 k* J# _
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as) @& U$ s% m3 k6 {) e
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 r3 f5 e4 h% v4 _, U8 Vtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of, n' [3 O$ }8 E |1 z
fight, in a small way.
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( Y; T- h3 a; z* j+ F+ NThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
! R" h. Y& o1 t+ mprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
: }3 b/ O0 f: E6 ^& H7 lfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 z3 l; H3 s. k
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter3 d0 U7 C$ a/ a: r2 q
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ z# d( Y! X9 tsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 {& n1 M1 M8 i- o& @
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% ^7 r5 `& K0 ]/ }0 l
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) r2 C0 V3 X- nheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" s. N% @% i' M$ l4 I! m7 c( Ethe 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 read7 \ e2 \: Z% v! n
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 c5 t+ a, n! Y' M( Z/ ?! R4 i# W" I
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
4 O' H1 M/ h/ p* A/ D. f7 S( pit went x-ed.) U" p% F5 q& ^8 ?
! Y2 l) N+ @) z- iNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by+ c- e: G8 b& d5 K# G
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld4 Y- u! K' W/ h: `1 M
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
2 j6 ?4 N3 J8 n9 |Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
* t: a7 @* Y# e) }5 B7 lxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
% M7 U1 y' R4 D: DJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a9 A4 Y8 F+ F: M/ d% d: F
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gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
+ d$ R7 e: i% `8 c+ SCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
- N5 N8 h: a% b7 y5 Y2 lcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
0 [6 m/ j: R7 f% V, T0 r0 f! Q( mnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
$ `" N! _5 d4 b; _ ]. E3 X4 u6 Lyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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