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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
# M- x+ o( J" G8 p- f. {case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,5 \: o) [5 _$ x7 [/ V
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their% y9 {9 D+ \' b
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
w! ]" a3 z1 |0 X2 \is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
. N! B9 k0 }3 g- @8 u! Utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of; C0 e7 o2 y" F
fight, in a small way.& T) k: v" r% G4 M1 A4 {/ o
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! `. L; g; d% B- T
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the) c# C! _7 }# x" [9 y w
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost' c- p2 w% |2 v! W" n
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
0 z3 P3 w1 c0 R* G7 sdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most- ?/ i: E! }+ [3 u& c
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old2 c7 E1 l4 H/ y* }& W
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an' w4 L7 _' A/ I3 ? W. k8 R' `8 ?
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
H7 I' g ?- Rheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than) }- Z1 H. ]* u! A9 r, E! y
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read7 _ ?4 {8 ~3 B; D
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
5 Z9 M) B- G- N3 H5 f# b) I R( wparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 {# c8 F* }$ c+ O0 ?# P, h- ]it went x-ed.. T2 ]8 S X9 p8 ]
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
5 D9 }7 ]6 H0 u: S% ^; kreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
5 O# e, w+ I; `time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're+ V$ v6 E! f1 _3 R% A
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld4 Y+ i' K$ q2 e; \4 b! a
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?7 d! g3 l( G' F# }
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at/ }! C6 s! i* N, N1 g3 U Q: F3 M
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,' T: [6 Y, l7 @& V2 ]" y$ B
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a2 u8 S5 G* ~% D/ X4 ?
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl," G" @4 v6 L3 {2 q
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
' ~0 A( G/ G. U, ?yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut* I* L, I% g$ _" s
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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