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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
) e- b; }, n6 gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
+ ]4 M1 D$ k8 E8 v. Y- Rperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their" X1 [$ F( ?; j2 |7 x) T
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
' g, ^4 b6 g" jis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but$ s9 H7 L! A& j9 J- a' m
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
# f& X* r6 H9 [4 o/ J- e/ @1 ofight, in a small way.0 G6 D9 f$ }. j3 g4 r) ^
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
2 H4 {& q% s1 i0 V- y* W; gprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the4 W) B8 _ @' C
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 D/ F4 K2 e( c ?: _always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
- L- [5 G( e/ N9 c0 wdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
% m0 @9 E% D5 h% L5 D4 h, Fsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old7 Z* R. s$ D1 k8 X2 C
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 E! k+ [9 | Q- Y5 ]' Rhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it- R2 b4 }( f6 J
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
8 T9 }* ], e8 d- G$ Uthe x to which he had been accustomed.0 U* x1 u' ]3 H9 ]2 M
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
5 v" h* o K& q' G& bit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! B* H# Q. b3 V! w! J3 d
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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4 _: H2 Q4 j# I3 ?7 D% QNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by3 v l8 S) e- \& |
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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9 t e' @+ m8 E, Ntime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
7 i( C) ^2 d! |) G+ ~" p wJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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' A- e3 k$ h$ q' W4 Wcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
* c% Y9 w, v( b5 Q) ?: j, {/ Hnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld" ?8 P+ V* b) m% }% u0 S
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut) q) Y; o, |' u; ?4 O9 N, X, x6 Q
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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