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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his( \8 h ]: L# }! T; @
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
5 `5 l# Q5 g' j- L h* wperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
S; P- L* r* X$ Meyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
7 A1 m. t$ f |% p l! ois just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 e/ ?. D V0 i8 G/ q- u% htwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
$ @; {7 k( T e" q+ y3 D; wfight, in a small way.% z& f6 l" r2 O, f4 _ H/ J
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in+ v. f7 \6 j6 j* |) q
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& o+ x' m1 @2 d) H( H4 [fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
1 S$ Z3 a0 e2 C+ ^# b" calways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ C( b) ?& \4 L/ P( _- y1 ^* O6 D2 Ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
, }3 Q( F, R; |, u. g( esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old" M7 F) `5 p8 l- Y0 z, b+ w
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an) r( p3 n' a+ D
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 M* Y* ?, {( e# ?heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than$ P9 m" }$ X" g& _. V
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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$ y, ? D4 x/ t( K* S'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
4 p/ M1 D/ x0 h) Hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
% F; F6 p' H1 q1 A ~, v7 ]paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
& e% w. A6 {2 Z/ p# w; Qit went x-ed., m6 G/ [0 }0 { D. j% E. j( N7 R
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ A% M+ d2 S9 {6 m
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:6 a, o$ B- i5 y0 j6 s6 u
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