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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
: o: a; U0 j6 h1 @8 W d8 icase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
4 A4 i7 t: @$ D; [/ L3 i3 E8 vperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their4 I, p% K& @# ]4 \) R0 k9 U0 {( @7 g; @
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
+ w% q6 S; q: k- Yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but O5 [* B% B; ]; N$ [
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
( E' r7 l8 g, M7 Z: W9 r' C0 sfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
4 P3 [% \. o8 ]+ a8 J/ c/ S- F+ Kprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
6 T! v! T; X/ C" jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 `8 @5 N, A4 ?; }) X( u. r9 c5 Dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter Q5 F5 z+ p$ j) u9 T; k+ |
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 O, a6 z9 f$ s( H" N! i# Vsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
: B- }0 W; @; Ltimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
7 x3 V6 {( }! h7 I% e! R* Ohabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
: U9 g5 r$ P0 s/ Y! _, S1 y! P- K( ~) Cheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than6 ^9 H) [- u7 n: R
the x to which he had been accustomed.$ w0 T* V2 ]: n( ? c# k
/ a" V j Z# `' N; M'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
' C& v% a* |, ^, c. {% T cit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy* V3 q( O" c/ L5 D( ]
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
Y! A" T0 i* W3 {! |# J! @it went x-ed.& M9 w, L' t5 A- {- S3 Q7 W9 A+ T
- Q9 [" F ]/ [9 d7 gNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by" S9 L+ Q) y0 s& { |4 p
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:- X$ u' O5 b4 q: O4 n
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
. \9 _. ?6 {% T6 k& l! }) xtime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
, O: {" e; n) P' y5 W1 Oxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
5 C* k8 N- G# _, Cwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?& n% Z6 `4 [, o' u9 f1 P; ~5 x
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: R: |8 n% X% C3 }" S4 c, ~' uxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,+ [$ s/ ?5 X$ L1 g
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) Q( `6 H5 `6 q- B. Tcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
7 `+ x5 E8 n6 I( N# {nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
. l) B% J4 D) c: Dyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut6 E# p1 H* o3 Y/ K
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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