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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
# t! `" l: c1 d H& Acase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
! a5 x' y& [4 i& h" M# z5 dperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% S, R e2 D; m: z( Leyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as" f$ q- R* O2 m1 ?
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: \9 o" \1 n' j+ D, @2 F0 q
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
% C3 S: Y6 w9 pfight, in a small way.& z: Q9 E; ^) ^
* U; ~- m1 Q8 FThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
; b9 Z+ z. [* C+ Y3 G8 hprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the. S6 M5 g' ]( M9 H' j& G
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
1 d) ^! u; ?, n+ balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 f4 W: F, q2 {; m' D+ |
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most! s; O; a" G$ K. q
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old" m- Q% l/ D1 ?+ `* Z
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ ~% Q& O8 W) [6 e9 f; nhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
" N A7 y/ y* D) _, _7 |heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
/ q7 J1 s* [( M w& B% ?) `; b ethe x to which he had been accustomed.1 x1 ]; N! }3 Q7 L9 w9 M
* G; b: ^* k5 u0 _6 ` E'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read: ^7 {- o2 N9 I5 ^
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, _3 N. K5 n, y/ ]
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# R/ u2 h; D9 l' J
it went x-ed.
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2 c- ]; h, [0 U6 S' LNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
7 z. M2 }* M4 g0 E- ~" F- qreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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