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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his8 r7 M7 n p8 F& _. d" s, A! B
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
: D5 g D: `* S: d8 Aperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; u7 D1 W5 f+ J/ |8 y1 c! _eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
" r# f3 j4 |# k5 W: U. Sis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 B( d7 ^6 H7 y1 c" @twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
% F) t9 ]% d$ t2 O3 j3 i3 z, B9 kfight, in a small way.' N; p F6 q& v$ W7 J
; w. Q2 g2 l; X7 pThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& c/ v- S) t8 f# l3 w* j. M
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the* m j; e1 T8 x9 _' E
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
$ G& C) A9 }% L jalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter; T; \' r* J4 w
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 _$ d# Q5 Y$ u# ^superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old* |1 z R4 M3 y& t& ]+ N. o% }
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an: L8 h, ]) D7 G1 `0 j
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it. K T0 j8 D- [1 V
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than J! g2 ]' X i* D: ?
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
. j+ `( ~7 h8 zit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ x8 p; G; K2 _$ S
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press4 O' W6 H: O! N
it went x-ed.2 O5 G* _1 C, V
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( z& d& j2 D& q; Z5 c# l3 X1 `
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,# V9 i0 K9 p, e) f0 |/ t V
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
" H" Z+ j# y0 f) k0 d6 e& L% D" v$ Vfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,1 Q" j, [0 f; B& U+ w2 I/ S8 g
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld0 l; j2 K8 \% j! q; d
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut/ p* e$ v0 t, r
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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