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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe4 P' Q0 h% L  k2 z. V1 ]
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一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.; s! g+ T% |! r& f$ K  Q
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑 & z, r0 v" C2 X

/ n  `" h% ~; _9 d" MI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
8 O7 l; w* B1 |' Fmind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
3 u  A/ X' \! y6 Q! Eno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
. a" w, j5 y. C" |5 ]: Ksection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
: D8 I1 ?+ E( z% J9 s. yhave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
6 c! m1 R3 [* _dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis( u/ _5 B6 j% @; M+ i& a; R) h% l
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
1 j: W% ]) F; J. M" |5 K& ]" Ta gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
9 R( X) F; ~' T% Vyears had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the" ^% z1 g! @6 ^' j3 y, A
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on
  c3 ]5 p' I! [; I* p# paccount of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
0 T; K$ i& g5 mhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
: ?2 j3 N* p) J! A4 Mdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for# g; y! t1 c0 B2 N$ ~
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;: q: v& W& O6 t; W& s
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly  z, R5 ^! ?3 L. _  Q' Y5 c
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after% c) X5 u. C) c  O( D
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to" Q) i8 \3 j# r4 H
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this5 V* C" T$ n6 W
was the name of the new paper.$ O0 u' }- f5 G. q/ v
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say$ T/ s, K* h3 v% E9 E6 `2 y
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as3 t3 u% w* d. J! k3 v$ Y
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in9 y5 D9 S( W- D2 z
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
# |7 R( H% B7 K8 ~) L) [have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
4 u0 j: L; }8 ^- Xwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to; d' ~2 r* a- e' {: N' d8 F
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
3 H% H. V5 z7 ~. rthus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way# v0 ?4 R6 x' G' t8 G1 ~9 ]
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
8 s7 X+ Y; Q2 \7 V* P. y! }) @3 ycoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
& E& N. {1 }" b& ?" N  mbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
1 i: w+ @2 B) s, t3 wexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one3 t+ o) y" T! M4 l2 E* h
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
3 L8 A3 m' {& i0 e# S) c3 QNext morning it appeared as follows:
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
4 m9 @$ K3 o6 P+ K$ r6 o"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,+ i$ ?# {' ^# S
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his4 A1 f8 V5 V8 u& N3 m
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning* m2 m. ^7 d! h7 d+ o- {: w
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
( O) H* @- p  u( T4 ivagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this8 W: r% P4 w  f+ F$ i7 c! O
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a5 w# ^; _: y) d# q
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
5 @5 `9 h7 {/ u7 Q' h4 L; S2 Jis pitiful."'8 D9 a0 n0 x# h) b: t  o7 @7 ^$ I

9 V$ X$ S: c* Z6 WThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
: n+ G) |- I2 K( u0 g+ ?I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,7 g/ v4 j" |4 L" w3 N
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon! r' a, p8 x  d* Y* a, [  U2 Z
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
; b/ F; m- ?% t1 b2 ^style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
: d1 g- g$ X2 mBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would- Q; G& a' j2 g. _# {
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let1 Y' l3 d% Z0 j% U& e" {
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
' F6 D. [9 a. Q- G- N$ M9 I& f" cBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that; ^3 o2 s. n( n3 \
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole% K% H0 s0 k6 A) J3 u8 v
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
3 J) g* `& ]3 J# x# Vshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --( W1 X: r$ q; _0 c7 i
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,( B4 A" b1 {0 J; }- y
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
' b/ |  n6 F) o9 @! L+ P8 g2 U6 Tcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!* o  G+ h' N6 V9 T
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy- o+ E/ a( a. G' `, E  B
could be.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑
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9 _& n/ Z; I2 f3 K' \9 v1 yBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great1 D8 I3 H0 Y" Q" C& }. O
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple; T1 I' `$ V+ E  g; |
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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4 N: I% }4 q5 c2 `# K4 A'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of$ I, c- |. H) d4 K4 i0 m- ?. X; e
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in3 q$ V% W, h4 Z& b# D& c
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
6 ]5 e7 M8 @+ P! X$ O; H/ ?1 c(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
* X9 P/ |" K6 Kstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the9 t' P9 A* Y  E# U- L( U+ S
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism2 z( R; Q5 G" w2 S' ?2 K; c
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the  S2 [+ G8 \: k& ?) Y3 h( k
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the+ Z3 B* S- N5 f7 ]. Y2 X
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful7 i3 w9 ^. \# N+ K# _/ X
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
$ J* r* v" P+ Bhyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
" D( R; W) @$ J) [not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
( u- l+ C( a3 c5 Sservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
: E: w" s# h" Y" ^( O5 Zdecidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to( f0 V' l0 _. z( \
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go( ^2 ~9 a( {% }# i
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
2 E3 n7 |/ c+ }8 Z: v5 U& Iit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
5 z* U; f3 d5 ]8 e6 n! XI say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the* o4 @" q7 U+ n* h; d
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
; w4 v; U/ a% S: I5 N' k5 C4 o0 M2 Vunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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  p$ n9 d- S+ E( X'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another+ D! R: J; f7 K4 h
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're8 o5 g! O1 b  d7 G1 h- E% s9 h
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
6 d" w! ?, I8 wwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!6 y7 J! ^) `2 `& j+ f* f+ j
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,, T) b6 n0 q* `  O8 ]5 U: Y2 H
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,' v4 ~6 C, A  J( F
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
8 N5 X$ {7 _- `! w1 @owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
; A& c4 f" r1 a$ ~; Y# }( hgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a( w* G* ?# _7 u& Q- X7 `
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
- M" i7 X7 T) N# @; d: l0 Qcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
' B' ?# X: g- ?% L  jgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
9 s; y2 m) m6 ^so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
( S$ @: z0 Q; |7 jand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
4 @& O/ t# C5 b9 K, e# L& a) B* WTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
! {& Q8 m5 z* @) F& h: ?$ P( ?the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.3 i$ u5 Y& X" E. a) t% W$ _
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
8 I0 c3 R4 [! D5 t! [looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can; T5 m' k8 ?. ?' M, d$ W# I
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a2 W( N( E2 y$ y
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single" `: C9 Q, o, z. C
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
. {8 I' D" E* ~capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
: d" N' }. K% ^without no o's.'! V  H8 a' l5 W* q3 ^8 D$ y

4 R/ R  s/ g% o'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
- q: a  f2 Q1 \; Yangry at being kept from his bed so late.+ A6 K4 z$ g( S# c$ G

) Z0 i1 y& N: x4 E8 |'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a& K8 K* l. i4 u+ V4 L
little one!'5 k- i. E: r) |
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'  L8 r' v( y; B% P, Z! h
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.': k, U, ?" q1 M5 q3 m, V9 [

5 [8 ?; ~" s: w'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
0 X; Q, \" c. c/ _0 H  Opurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy5 w! c7 ]0 n7 }& j
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,9 C+ Q8 T# ?9 N( \
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
6 d# @7 ~: O7 @paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'( @0 H% o( P! a0 a
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'& `6 d3 e1 f$ D
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in0 T$ I& t0 c6 |
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
1 ~5 P, K+ f: J, e/ f! Gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
# X, V, {; a' @! P% Uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
. \; z1 R% b5 }$ ueyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( S  m1 U& v: i* R& }' S. |8 ~is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but! `- u) e6 x1 X
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 h) x7 f' e( Bfight, in a small way.! t1 s% N4 i$ r$ e# l

! V3 j+ G6 u- F8 x% y. vThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in; p) N% t4 M* h: D! _! `
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
! B7 F, B: Q- |3 U% b) O# ]: Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 F9 K' |4 |  U0 z! q' balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 R) }, B2 s1 U  h. _* Wdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most  A( e" c4 E9 D5 l9 ^1 r# R
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old5 E! A3 R+ L  D. N7 M* W2 ~7 z
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ X4 O8 R) `9 C3 B1 K9 l: Qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it, h- K5 M/ T7 S
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 q; G& Q5 l/ R( T7 }1 C% {, A
the x to which he had been accustomed.6 e/ d. X  C( |( R: b
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read! W+ v7 C: K) q+ F: D% Y2 e
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
: ^; _# v- E( ?* m! A! Dparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
  C3 N4 v& Q6 t# J! \8 T% `- T3 _it went x-ed.6 G3 s& \  {. _+ [; w  w1 [

* {9 x) I/ O: e2 y8 W  V! v6 FNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by0 N- M- j- H5 F! H) p- D; ?5 s
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:$ O# P2 b6 [5 j( v- l
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
- y3 s# D1 g, Ftime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're9 |& D2 R7 _& d- f* C$ x, D
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld; v- Z" b% u3 S+ b% {, k9 h' j
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?  L) `2 H7 T9 v
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at' g* U0 q1 i/ X# C& O; n( L
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
2 q. x) a8 W! `. @7 o  l* r/ QJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a' {3 _/ i! B. u# V
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld; C4 m: P: Y2 f! G
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a) {: P* ]: \) k$ n
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur4 k1 X& y  f- s1 q) `* W
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
" n9 k% t) H$ N$ Inxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
5 f1 A: I9 ?( h! K/ yyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
$ m: Z9 b0 M6 U" e, l# A2 lsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
0 ~' w/ u' y1 Dnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the9 L7 k" x$ T  E0 J2 f7 Y
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the* q2 ]) ~! w0 X( w5 A
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's, A; M3 w9 y$ Q5 i9 k0 n
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
. l: J& d8 r' }' Fgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell( ^1 W- U8 W; S# k7 d5 O
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length7 A7 N% I! ?0 N: W9 D7 k
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of3 d! M) W& }( D5 E- }6 g
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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' A" k$ x1 E/ G, Q: dOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke." x3 A& P7 y3 |: s
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of9 ?% g1 E6 }' L2 _- e' F( R2 Y
fancy.7 N. o# S! [/ w0 p/ M4 A

, O6 o5 e1 P: W& O; fA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
- b; Z  ]: y: X/ X, bgeneral way, his X-asperation.- d$ n# [# J6 T/ m) b

7 I5 ^& j3 E9 h% }& y* A' |9 S'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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2 Y4 L, s% ]: t8 G# A( sThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
& O, A- t2 y: Z( s' \/ A$ zand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
1 [( y: I3 y( V* T7 V1 W' otalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
: h9 U) A7 [) E/ [6 @0 ?  b* _X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician4 {7 b: |! m6 A5 J
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
4 z! g% y4 A4 C% J  A. {" @  bbody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly2 a6 K- L# H, I, g( ]
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.% T/ J$ s- p' N! j) X& Q

' ^2 I7 o8 l/ b% d: A" W  G' E: H, z" mThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed' S: A) Q6 H" g+ S
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it: b& Q% F2 [* K0 B/ I4 E
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
- k" q/ r$ E9 G* X: N5 GHe said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,3 O& l) w1 E2 \& ]' d- M: t$ _- Y
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
. V& V. W# H* f7 u* j+ \# ?2 J5 |persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
' w/ c/ z- k8 i$ o3 x. aa-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral. O5 l3 Y( d3 s/ d9 X
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
* d3 G( i- M4 zthe X-treme.'
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