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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his: M0 q+ ~3 l( `
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
8 v7 a& J* w& m4 `0 \: ^+ qperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their4 H( z; {6 z2 W' v. a# Z7 `
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as0 V, h0 l' N. n9 E& C" T" W
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
0 M8 V& x; U3 S5 V3 atwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of2 z) ]( q: Z6 S5 f9 H
fight, in a small way.2 F1 a7 C4 R" L* }) J5 g
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in9 b x) Q0 X. E! C/ g1 W* N1 F; F
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the5 s8 ^- C0 f9 z3 `0 q# z3 {6 j
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost3 [% B* Q1 F, `; {+ `+ f
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter) Q8 @" n& P8 S- E6 S8 O
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
{; Q0 w: Y, Esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- R+ N8 }6 t, \
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
y4 o& K u' `% h4 ?/ K% l9 ?8 Mhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it' D; K( W+ } s' ]$ E$ _( S# A
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than1 }5 F) p$ }. m
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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& d i* f* N9 w5 e3 S'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read8 h! |8 {5 t. @, N, y) r' _
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
) P2 X% |, a6 o( w4 q. Hparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press$ c$ V6 j- _! n* B+ m7 N# k4 F
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by# a0 U) N- w; G! T( z y- v
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:6 s' n" Y5 k- n& j8 R/ U( d) x
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're/ W0 r6 m6 C& T( T
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld# t2 w0 b2 Q, y' G2 K4 t
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
+ M" }' T$ H. \0 c* @- `Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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" C* y5 K! ~5 U. c: S. E1 qcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
/ b" i5 c, y$ r; Onxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
* U2 a: O, K% r7 E M, t; H+ G! Tyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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