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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
. q$ Q7 u; p& h, N& q9 J$ q1 ocase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
[. \' v) g+ M+ v/ gperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" {5 J3 D' ?. M. Deyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as4 G- P0 L3 s# s4 ~- `% s
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but. n( I5 O7 L/ c9 s' t
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 I5 F" H! g) ]! Q* K
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in$ q- F/ @! k" P9 o. J7 T7 T8 n
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
8 r/ l$ i9 _% [: j, nfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
+ y2 q) r2 y# Y* ?/ i( d5 e0 Nalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter* P" S9 t: w9 s- B; \9 a/ s
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
# E: u3 E' t) k4 d& osuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
. z. }4 ~, }' s, ]- stimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
1 T3 u4 E* v2 \: Y9 S& C0 dhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
+ A, ?( F+ F. }% [& y. `heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" ^; f7 B# |) E. ~1 U
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' l1 `/ Q6 x6 \& R b, q7 u
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy" Q7 a) M3 |. s0 E) c# m6 j
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press9 M. q$ i: u& V" u+ U
it went x-ed.1 E' N7 a8 R! |$ z/ J
/ D' x d- X; ANext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
- m6 s" }+ n. r: hreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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- n6 L, d! r9 d0 Z- acrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,4 s0 W3 o& R! y. v+ @
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