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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
- ?7 t& _. B3 `! scase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
$ J* N E; J7 F! v7 ^4 Sperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their- `! @1 `& m+ A" q5 X7 q" h
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as: P) Y8 Z7 W0 M/ \9 T( ~: A# M
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 J2 }2 b7 f# `6 f) ]
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of8 ~" X3 T" \" Z; }" Y/ }) c1 m
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! _- P4 s5 T1 m* s
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
7 n7 e) E& u5 B; m, K6 Q# Wfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
2 A+ `+ N$ i0 g) `always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter$ U# L0 p/ m4 v7 L8 I/ {# |$ n
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
, N6 {/ O% {! u! m' S) Zsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
. z* i2 n6 @1 f) k5 etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
4 k: E6 G, x5 @8 Ohabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
; k/ U7 v$ x6 Jheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" U8 t6 I: ]. d% W' l6 v8 o
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read7 L3 O/ M7 m+ F& y; w& p, I" |
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& f0 r8 ^1 ]% q0 n- Zparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
8 q8 B( v# F. p1 Ait went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by; M4 D- n# `; M3 ]) j1 j( p X
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:0 [0 K% k; l# M* y$ C
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