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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his; a, e( A' b, G0 Z8 I2 M! r4 E
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions," `+ M6 I. x2 a8 _. |
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
0 U# `1 H7 r) V o8 H- L/ F# a- Geyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 W7 Y |% I5 c' yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
' j4 g, N% ~" v R0 j8 B) y4 W1 k+ \4 _twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of, s1 t6 D: E" E7 ]
fight, in a small way.9 }. R% {8 D& y$ Q y( R
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in3 c. G6 _! z* A( x( s2 C
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% w7 Q" l8 v' F1 k4 afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
. `$ n# m* J" A' i6 o `+ d5 zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, L, g |, {4 j6 W6 x F
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: a+ n; i3 K) l: A1 @superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 y6 {9 |- y6 l7 l6 k [. ~5 v p
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
! ~% E9 Q* J( C& {; r7 Whabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
! G! K0 S: N: u' vheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than* o( x( U; b8 T# _! E' k1 _6 q
the x to which he had been accustomed., {$ F: F5 G5 q; V
4 C @7 \' ~3 C1 w9 K7 |$ m'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
: M; {2 H. ^ a8 S3 vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- V# A. g+ C( r+ D& S m
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
+ w2 g4 ~" o& W6 p% X) z2 e2 Wit went x-ed.
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0 k* u7 m, M% C; Q8 WNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 @- C- B' C0 t0 O2 ~( Kreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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