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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( Z- d4 f1 U6 r" @& `! t% u
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
- b7 |8 ~* N6 Cperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their, ^( u X0 _; R- R0 _! k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as4 `( S4 b* e: D0 \4 ?
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) I2 c$ Z; j% `: d1 q) }" U5 @' utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
0 u6 H: {7 b# g8 V5 z# J! z3 efight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
3 K0 i$ q7 H* t- Jprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& i5 ^, ^. O5 u( S7 kfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost$ E6 Y, F0 i; k. D8 A
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
' y: B' b" p5 }% u4 H4 I( \8 {deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 j& ` W+ e- \% b) b. K' rsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
/ Z& s, q. l6 _/ Ltimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
0 x3 f4 t4 E9 q2 C: Bhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ H8 l L# A9 V* y0 S
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
6 ~* k3 L6 J' R0 u, i+ athe 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
. ^$ m* |/ ~2 Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
+ x1 p9 e8 X+ h S7 s" a( \paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by# f% i; }1 T- |8 G
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader: v+ n9 }7 ]1 Q( o6 n) [
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