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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ X8 p4 T" A5 ~" e* q' ?! y) @& |
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,1 j; {# M2 O5 S6 h/ ^
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their( M; s3 t6 n# K, v+ C/ w
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
! J: f: }* I' _. `" `4 ]' ~is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but0 M6 o2 u$ r8 L2 i
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
- j6 A$ }5 a5 e8 ~' E8 D: Afight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
( ~) a3 d: m7 r5 cprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
+ \# O% J8 t0 m% j/ W/ Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
1 a6 R t" k& s( Palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ R% N* L' k6 U/ K6 }; pdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most' b) l. w$ f- X$ }" Z. h: k
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, P2 I7 E; E+ e4 |0 {+ t: w5 C0 dtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
4 j" I$ K" Q- Bhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
2 V! H; R7 d5 v( v2 N, W. G, Cheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' K6 R' a6 A6 {4 O7 G* U+ {
the x to which he had been accustomed.2 B# b |; w( L' k4 r+ H$ g
3 r* m* w+ z6 a( Q8 P'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
* e0 r# Q3 J* N, g, ^+ Bit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy1 y3 N2 ^0 s% [7 Y/ K, F
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
9 ?" O% m& ]( l4 Y) yit went x-ed., }8 i, y# j% y
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by# l- I7 L5 ~1 B. j2 Q7 f% `4 i
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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