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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his# K8 j; T1 t* A& Q. d! q' k' P
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
$ W4 @! n: N N/ x- k' ~* `# z1 T" jperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
+ G3 b n/ U: z- beyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as! ~' z5 y+ G. e5 X
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
" h: }3 a( M7 H) B6 R8 ktwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of* E" o* T" M; @8 F0 R2 [, n9 B; H( J
fight, in a small way.3 g3 s# F3 B% R) n0 _! C$ T
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in: m5 P5 Z5 l5 P$ G9 S+ ]4 K. I
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the: C4 @# K) S; H. b! I7 Y
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
! ?* z: ?" I- b# Lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 D+ v7 n. S6 g4 X2 A% ?
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most$ z0 h( d0 N& H) l# h! q% U. G
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old+ p! A. q& o W3 M9 V$ Z. E! H& a: h
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
4 k" s$ t+ P5 Y9 d3 b: Z, r& Nhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
9 x- w" ]! r5 b! Lheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" J& a; C8 b2 S% ^, u" h
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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1 g! w5 u: R1 F$ K0 v D) ^6 p0 X'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
8 O I3 O4 T& V* Eit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' O: f9 j6 q$ a, I2 M; h* Z T
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 m- X @! N2 i7 t% U: s+ m, s* g( Rit went x-ed.: ]+ i' G0 W" n8 w) b$ S' b K
2 G4 [( q/ l. D6 \Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! ^4 b, {0 _! ]# Z+ X$ |3 e/ w0 n9 c% G
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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