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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
/ g0 O+ I" D6 ~case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( {2 P: l/ q- E6 x; w; B. c+ eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& T& a& l/ Y) m/ L7 ^. S7 `
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as9 M! p+ t6 X: ^ V
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but) i; T+ a5 y- h* \
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of3 k' `0 A6 [9 a0 t- }
fight, in a small way., p8 }4 ^- E% j) Z. [% C
! {( \# H6 C4 X) T- v9 }The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
) C1 z" ^2 y. a7 hprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
' G5 ?& K% q$ D" s b3 r- W% ~fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 N, o" B% K. Valways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
]8 d0 E9 Y6 `2 [) hdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most$ h, l* }9 i1 J( S
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
q' x# W. b) A( S! N: Jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) B; h% z. y* u5 r2 J+ R( Z" Uhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it8 j5 G- Y2 {! U/ q* s
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
, i/ O$ U6 ?. H; |. Nthe x to which he had been accustomed.8 e% \2 `% K# i! V( \
: ]2 s& r- Y2 L" c7 F; L+ x" m% v8 B'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read6 N. W. b7 j& d* S, x, a
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy5 ^! M/ ~1 Z1 Z8 f
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
9 ^ _) H1 W$ T$ ~6 jit went x-ed.
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9 U4 H6 a7 w6 }" H) o }% \' JNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by9 k3 s' l! o. u$ X, c6 x1 _
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:7 B% P! l0 C0 y. b
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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