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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his. @- ^5 v1 |6 m& u" U
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,- A6 X* G0 l/ f- S9 P. _
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their1 g f! O( x$ Z
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- ^3 Q7 w5 m! C8 E& Tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; t" x+ Q) T. }: e6 S! W4 w6 v+ H3 m3 O
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
, j" k$ f0 i) r4 B8 ^fight, in a small way.
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1 f6 H1 ?6 v7 n% u9 }* u$ B# J) lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in# x; g* l% m4 P( c' p9 U
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
: @9 l+ S2 y% N0 ^fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 O, Y( T8 X; W# F# m+ _always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 P3 \; X6 B% ^1 n" `
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
% V# v2 y a0 T1 Q6 C% zsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old5 P, C* }" A4 R" B
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an( h. R2 ?6 k4 V, J" |) V
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
/ Y* n4 N# j2 Q E' ^heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
+ U: W$ T; H; `& u# |: Ethe x to which he had been accustomed. p+ i$ @9 l' Y, X9 t
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read6 m- X D5 Q% u/ S
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 @: Y. {, v2 ^% W& b3 D
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press* }- X4 h+ ^& C$ p
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by1 |+ _6 _, ?) l8 J% Y
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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