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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
% O# ]9 `+ R$ Dcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
% ~4 G1 X, M! L8 p, [* e iperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their! e5 k, P* ?/ D6 |9 t
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
~1 e! T& i& [5 g+ Kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
9 X% h0 \+ q6 K5 \2 B" utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of+ `7 |3 |6 k9 f
fight, in a small way.. B7 W+ T+ x- w( h" ~
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
, l( t2 J% y; E8 Q2 Y/ Dprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the: p9 j( s+ C- F' T4 d9 W! U# w& a/ [
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
' n! d. e; ^* F3 i) Lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter; T6 l% v0 g/ Q' S
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 V+ }! T( p: i; Z+ H M9 _7 l; Rsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 B: y- e$ i3 O3 d2 S, N
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an4 {6 o8 i) X- B T
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
8 \+ W1 s9 [+ ?heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( L5 C: n0 J- ithe x to which he had been accustomed.
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% p0 t- u4 K0 m# M'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read! r% H. P2 d3 s( l) c; P# K
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy( M6 b1 U. s( `% n2 l
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press. C3 Z. z/ K! e3 u, s0 T9 t5 m
it went x-ed.. b2 I4 s8 z. ]( d5 ]
& u( j W0 s* T0 ?4 ZNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by. q) a/ F' a4 N& Q7 d
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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