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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his* v+ W$ x5 {% M
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,. h$ ]7 @) y$ l2 Q7 o& ^
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; S& X _; R( J0 v i% [- ]
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
* r9 H% V+ p; F0 Cis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
- z4 r m: ~4 B# K1 {/ ~twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
0 H7 R$ A! W& _1 `( x7 Hfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
B4 t0 ]# p! @; N ?0 x( gprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
' E: f; v* _1 ?1 f) [fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
" \* U1 f9 g9 halways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ \) }" `& F/ n9 @! adeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most5 j+ \; c4 `$ m9 y; f* c
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old/ W% ~# X, X3 @! Q2 F/ l# _( J
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
2 Z* v3 D5 e) C7 M6 r) X$ ~2 |8 _habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it: s& f, b) I, Z5 G% h
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
8 y% Y. o/ T7 b/ _2 C0 Z6 j. e6 {1 {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, y: B. a* x8 @+ f8 }; q, R: Q3 p
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy: q6 e$ S7 A1 j' p0 x! E
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press) o2 V$ t( J, [$ {
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
6 d3 W: B |* {6 `reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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