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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
' y! {" Y( }! j* lcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, W) q& o+ t1 i2 n( P+ p9 W
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. i6 W+ }; j9 R* C. C9 G
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as, j% d( r1 B. Y# A* x' }# b/ v
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, w/ M5 l& M+ }8 {- ytwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of: V0 `2 P4 N' c* G- m# c/ k3 b( p
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
4 j$ B/ h, W( R B5 Mprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the t1 G- Q q- y; e" w3 M4 b
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost9 R9 p/ [3 n1 r, v3 l0 ]4 f
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 z3 M5 p& H1 O+ W* i2 |
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most. W# D$ X' a( ]3 X) r& W% C
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
1 s3 }3 b5 e1 v* u& t4 Y4 ]times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
9 z( T \, G+ \3 Fhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
% l2 C, V% O G- O( ]heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% p/ [ j. d" R+ V' A
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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) s& `, Y8 {! C& }, h% w% a'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
1 G! z5 u- v6 u& A: {$ Dit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy8 O w. _7 D! K Q3 i3 b
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press5 K0 S) H. e8 b0 P% B. V. |
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
4 ` m4 C$ H# areading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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