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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
* w8 }! F1 \* V0 ~& c0 scase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,% P2 O9 K- O1 e+ f+ T& p: x
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& m# A9 K1 K, s8 ]$ C
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( Z3 c7 Y& s& l& f3 @, B1 g' J) D3 g7 d
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
: I" o- i" T: K0 O5 L% xtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of% }$ s8 A2 P& }& i
fight, in a small way.
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/ y: s; t/ n* ?: gThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in+ X" y8 r& s& s
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the: M4 X( C* U2 n" z" X5 e
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
- a2 J/ O# ]' Balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter3 i* @* G( M" s
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ U8 ^+ v" i; N- vsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
. F0 A! j1 [$ P# O/ |% etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an' G8 i2 P) _0 K; _; t
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 P; N+ J+ P- ?heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than! d9 h" v( \; j1 Z, ^$ w+ I
the x to which he had been accustomed.: Y, D0 t G& Q2 l1 G* h I
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
- _2 L/ T5 c7 j9 z* Mit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
( s0 T' e+ G3 T R0 ^6 T) pparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press9 y1 D1 Q% y- B0 z% a7 ~5 T6 w
it went x-ed.
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1 R4 L. O( {. O0 DNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by$ j# B1 P$ z, x( ], m
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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