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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
* j+ |) c5 b$ v4 Scase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
3 d; f; ~. u6 ~% k- o6 X! Mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& P8 W7 Z6 G: R0 e
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- g4 I4 ]8 E7 x% ^4 s/ Vis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; w5 V; c) g0 w5 O/ D/ b
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 ]5 U; M x% r3 [/ a. |fight, in a small way.2 w* @5 E; o/ ?' y6 e8 F. h0 _3 w3 K
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
; _( V7 S5 E1 G1 [4 b) Tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ s3 A5 s: l U" ?! g$ L
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, U, x p% j8 z& X5 ~, i$ W' Balways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter! O% R X; }) B4 W; M
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: L S0 R0 z3 M3 Ysuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
2 E% Z, @+ t$ G, L5 [3 L, ~times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
5 V+ u: ~# b3 Nhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 Y, X! {4 M M9 Z+ d8 X$ N* F0 rheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. h( j$ N- i2 y* w; A3 qthe x to which he had been accustomed.# q1 h2 r2 G, H* F+ p
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 ?+ M6 P1 ^# U9 @' C6 I) Z1 \
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy7 S: L( h& z% p- r; D: g+ m i
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: |' o# U- @: @4 Rit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
* X# M( Y. h* n1 Z7 R4 yreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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