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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
* j1 l( v8 N* Z; }/ e3 t/ w& |( i4 Fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, c/ X2 ?/ A2 {0 v5 N" N
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their9 |' d& u4 _! q: I5 R, A
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) Y; y. e6 q. G' F) {9 E- [is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but5 d1 W- U5 M1 ^4 t
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
$ S( y) V1 G* U) |' ffight, in a small way.5 T+ p+ J9 F. x7 r' K5 k
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
, T5 ?( ^+ Y) }printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
% ]) i! ~1 @7 i7 dfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
) a) L8 i% Y: S6 A" t: L, `always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 Z# X: q' ~8 Sdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
6 b$ C, C v& D4 D- I6 X9 {superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( f8 @% `1 ]% V% ^. R3 P. E
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an6 O/ z& F' V+ Y( z- K6 X$ w
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
. G* q# B6 d' Fheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than! z3 r3 O; [+ \) j: l: `# d d
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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2 f( J3 Q2 H; w, a$ z- J# |* ~'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
7 J+ T% ~& K3 c) |3 fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
. a2 D; g7 A" `paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 T# R! K4 k0 E9 V. h$ `6 o6 Lit went x-ed.
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' \5 g" Q, {0 o7 u. v# ?Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 q1 u& ^& u: d, E8 n; e
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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