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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
+ j: K6 _8 N W8 q3 t) @+ ucase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,: A, D1 |( L- | \. @; I2 c
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
6 k4 t, F9 D( i* S# Neyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as& [4 S- T3 L- b- y% D
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but0 [" t) o8 ?3 F3 j# G5 a
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of8 [! {5 Y1 [7 X. }, W
fight, in a small way.' b4 T: H' a% W% r; l! v; \
; x. @9 o4 Z9 I3 f i5 s/ i# |The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
: Q- U2 s* N4 Z# I. Uprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& N' v0 G$ L3 x" K2 Nfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost ^- t! P( c' V5 X) s
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter8 c: A2 A2 {" h. \$ T4 Y
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most9 }8 Y7 R( n! W% I+ p/ w# N
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old {, G; W1 t" R0 m, Q% P
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an6 [+ f# t$ q- E2 d/ M" a3 u8 |/ C
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it: o/ K5 P" p i
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
, D& `2 L4 {) S; E0 U# i: ethe x to which he had been accustomed.
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7 \: ~9 K. C# ^: K- Q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read! W4 J- d! \3 m& }
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
# B( Q6 Z1 _% x7 U! n* nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press( y% t7 ?; m! i( g, ]$ S; _6 ^
it went x-ed.
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0 I4 T) y3 I0 v! j" y% T; x* C' ]$ T$ hNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
) C+ M1 R! W! b/ p, ?* _reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:5 a* d7 Z$ I! ~& ^& u
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