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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 F( G. e, ]& L% ~% B i
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; X# u7 X$ `/ [) s) B( s" G; ^
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their' Q& ~! A, l; o( i
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
# `: v9 u+ @& N3 V* A7 }is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
' l$ E3 I7 b, o; M* Ftwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
% |, k$ S# V I2 I' H; hfight, in a small way.3 t3 R) ~7 b8 m+ Q; d
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
R% r- w, [% a) iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the8 {& G" B3 r! X' o/ g3 r
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost; K; B6 G" y& Z$ S! R# x/ E
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 Z% {2 V/ [. |- r7 P
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most o" R/ z& O2 ^+ S9 @" ~$ f# _
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
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habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it8 Y4 X9 @% u( l4 h" \, Y( F9 _- }5 X0 v
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, D$ r3 V3 \& S, ~; ~; k
the x to which he had been accustomed./ G* t4 [/ m# U/ ^1 q* y
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read* P! S' w4 M, Y& j
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- b" i( D- T( K/ f5 x) E
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
) g4 I- |8 M# C5 Sit went x-ed.; Y: s x) X! R. ~6 x. n
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by1 X, X6 w1 U8 y0 I; n. h u1 R- t
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:; k; I1 k5 r1 y: ?1 W
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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