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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ G8 a# r/ u% ~7 }% e+ l7 h) m* a
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, p, b/ F, g2 y2 X q
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 w E# D& X& H% X, f1 v5 @% k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) j/ \ J K5 x8 cis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
3 B: v5 L1 B% W8 utwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 L4 I+ Z8 }9 y% _2 N/ p" z' D5 `
fight, in a small way.* Y2 Y; `' r0 o, v; ?/ ^+ w$ }
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% ?4 z- V. C- O/ l8 [7 oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ u$ j( |* p+ f# g' M( f& Q) k
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 L, U3 s+ T) D" X/ `6 `, L8 Dalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter; [9 b# g' j9 e. g% q, @% W
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
( c: x8 u9 M& ^- Hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
2 T, O! ?' m, e2 G$ [- ]times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an/ T+ S* w# m' {( [
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
# _- a+ q; u: ]heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than. ]# ^) B9 N# _5 G! _
the x to which he had been accustomed.4 |0 V0 H, X* [- _2 T
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read6 U2 s4 u7 x1 z; ]( W2 I0 X
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy9 y; O @% q" s
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press7 @: b/ M# R' @
it went x-ed.: c/ L; ~6 Z9 _ L; N% V
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by, ~1 x6 y4 P# f! W+ M
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:2 b9 S! {" B4 o1 p$ a4 t) q- r
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