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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
" g" Q) J7 }* }' S0 Kcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,: y, E/ ]* \) G$ B, ~( n
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. @+ ^) }# i. g0 O
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
, f" t8 U* [4 k! ? tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 C2 Q9 F6 Y: w' y, Ctwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
& `$ }. C: Q: E% [' R/ _8 \fight, in a small way. m% z* g* q6 A
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( Q4 k9 O. y+ I6 p
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
. j* f, c. \- V! Ufact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 V/ I l+ c/ t' U8 ^7 f( B$ c8 Lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter$ C" G- @, e5 \- {/ b
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most( ^2 C" N t( H; V5 m
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
: @3 P4 J0 ^# r+ j& k$ L5 ?! C4 r2 B1 i2 Vtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
: _% d" n1 r, q0 C4 h! z1 ~habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it4 b: m( R0 m) l4 Z
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. [" Q9 ?9 k; ^- |the x to which he had been accustomed.1 i& _ m- W' J+ T" W$ T
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 @, a! m4 a% c0 D3 |* ?5 K
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy. E3 j) L4 A i* i5 M' |0 `
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
7 [) w5 }- {7 Q2 P# w) o" yit went x-ed.! u+ v- R w3 a6 c% U2 }: X
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: \$ e2 G5 V" m# P0 B5 L2 sreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:6 X2 G, S5 i; T& R5 [8 w
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