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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
. G9 W! M3 g$ B9 }case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,+ S& M* E/ t& I7 _3 L
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
* _9 m" `. U. H- i ~eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
6 |( K C" b; E% r0 T7 s& Dis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but2 u0 y- s1 D9 j+ i9 o: y* ]0 s
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
* ~$ ~ v2 ~, jfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
! I8 F* L& j* F5 @' n' eprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
7 j3 v, I/ V+ o7 t, C/ g! Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
E$ N" B* I, ~4 x5 |3 L" f, z( ^always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 T, s+ ?4 ]. S# s3 p. Pdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most' A, _8 y" o3 S. y1 h6 _' J( P
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old5 S; _# O. H: t" k6 s
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an: J9 |5 N& I; e. e) C ^
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
4 X! R; v+ n- A9 _* x1 xheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 e6 f# E' n4 ]$ o
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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; n% `2 V6 c) O: R0 |# Q6 O2 Z! h'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
# c6 t+ G6 y, Y! a" g* }( Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 H; L. ?; A* B* e
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
% i! {" C# S; C! [( g6 ?it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
7 a3 k# ~. S1 A6 c! Nreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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- M$ Q9 l# `" _& qtime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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