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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
S7 U& u+ W9 _; H7 Zcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,2 M$ m2 u$ i8 y/ I
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' v3 }9 d8 B, reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as: j" T# r6 `, f+ ~ _. n4 `/ L
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but( J4 T- g! ?& |! D+ ~. N9 q
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
; ~+ i3 S1 |9 U' ~' p2 L- xfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
0 N6 |4 V( ^# X, f S, Tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
2 a% e' u* H7 V0 Rfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
$ ~# t2 s; U* O K+ palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter. O9 ?' t! n( E% x* x
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most5 {9 A, |) u; p* p; s( l$ G" M0 Z
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
}% f0 Z! G6 y! d% k2 V& qtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
9 l9 z) T8 o6 D6 [habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it; k v2 z% m6 B6 ?
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% p" c p/ m" [
the x to which he had been accustomed.: W% x) ]# }) W- U) B8 ]5 \
- n, a3 Q& v/ L! _" Q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
' A( M8 q4 ~) ]. K# Tit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
6 ?+ [& j8 \3 Fparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press* v3 u, {5 X8 A4 S
it went x-ed., k9 q, S; H3 A3 Q. X
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by$ }1 g8 z" ^' j+ ?8 @( t
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:& ?, F$ H6 Q, n/ e
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