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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his1 G V% Y/ P$ D, Y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
- A1 q3 A- m6 S# `' fperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their- O4 \" }3 V+ [& t0 i
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
" Y# O/ j; X+ w' i8 B, f, Eis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) Z% `9 Y) m0 i$ vtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of3 k- x! M- d1 K y& }' q
fight, in a small way.8 ^+ Z' F% @8 P- G1 `2 P5 K
. n3 k- u4 |8 ]The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
2 J9 @$ R0 W8 R; g1 F/ Nprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
. M- D2 ?7 x1 e9 c7 C9 x. h6 C" dfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
/ o* w q8 I. C( |7 F lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, p ?6 G; G6 c9 R Y% G
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most) |, t- C3 b7 E3 `( U3 S* @
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old, a* R+ k- I7 Q7 d$ \0 N$ j
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
6 i1 L- n- e- j0 s0 M0 y- ]habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it) g$ p0 r l {- R& ?# V7 I, [: u
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than) u7 O) p9 B* ~; ]$ T& e: I
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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# z: C. t- L; c& s7 k% `'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) J1 c6 F* \) C& q( w$ H+ hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
0 K7 a; s! R+ ]paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 N. _/ O, f' r0 M9 O) G {( K
it went x-ed.0 c$ ?# ]0 o3 O& |* W
+ o A; g2 T8 h: I( n$ \Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. ^. p% z0 ?1 `% k9 X5 ]reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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