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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 S; J$ |; P( z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,! S' S) s# C6 r4 }9 N
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their1 M3 V. A9 Z9 Z& X5 L& a
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
' c2 w. | u& a. Yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) U, t8 b( z' stwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 b5 p) C, W) x5 Q/ n
fight, in a small way.6 D5 N |9 @' s1 D. \/ i8 G
9 M: ]- w( A: _7 d4 _) E- A5 @The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
+ Y) `2 }8 \, n2 O9 [- `" oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
0 }" P4 G" ^. E& wfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 C. U$ C% | g% S) N+ q
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 e9 M H% r9 W" K# ?# [
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
8 ~1 z( q$ z" J) E% _ b) r, H" `9 w# {superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' O8 J# Y7 q$ Z. \2 vtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
: e8 c3 }4 ]: a8 qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it. P3 W( W7 n P6 Y
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 @, P* H6 m# g' v- O( j
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 read
, `$ k$ g& T; X% S `4 i4 Dit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# {! T4 Q X3 {" A6 d
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! l" D j3 ^6 y1 Mit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by% S2 J8 ]& t2 |8 G
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:7 L$ Q7 j* ]* Q$ ~% j3 h6 V. T
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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