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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
9 j9 W- O. m! i; ~) l' p' ?case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
3 E9 }% n C& F' P$ q/ jperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
7 D/ F5 C3 P8 {/ ~* m$ }eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
+ k, v. H2 P& c8 j3 o! Wis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
- f, Y' t! c! H. r' Ttwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 h. `. r$ y% q! y4 m' o3 ?fight, in a small way., {3 K* O) K# n& g
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in, M7 G8 n0 W+ N- K3 e
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the/ [. W5 Y/ E5 X' a; O
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost. R2 f' r$ {6 s Q
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter4 N, x0 t/ T& c0 } N& ?* N
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 i S- s3 g% h. o& `superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
1 |( ~# T: r: ^% htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; Y/ }" t0 ^' _2 X! y: I+ c5 Ehabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
2 c5 t$ L: G* {& N; l/ U/ Oheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
) E' K% @8 n# w2 Dthe 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
+ i/ I k: Z; V- J; @9 Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* }0 N2 j/ T3 c1 k; u" tparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press: O% y0 H3 V P0 a7 b
it went x-ed./ t0 v6 U) i2 Y- q
5 v" ^6 W6 u, @- iNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by: L( D& F0 h* a9 W6 ?" y3 n
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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6 ]0 \2 x! r: i9 i0 ?yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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