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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his* _1 C) A) e: v7 w j$ B
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; U# j0 ]: x9 Cperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their2 `3 a) l$ ?1 e n7 D% \
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as7 l; \" S. V/ J+ @: s9 Q
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 d, i/ y! p( i& z* `' ntwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of% M( h5 C# _) K. ~8 d
fight, in a small way.9 C: o! Y( Z" E3 _4 e, Q( {# n
8 B# |! m( D" w6 C" w& LThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 O8 ]8 p& T- b4 O3 c5 q9 E/ ^+ \- I; Pprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ k+ ]6 i3 B* u3 P# \
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
4 {# u; u) Q- @always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
5 [& G) ]8 M0 |% H' B8 _$ r& Ldeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most6 P; W: |3 v5 _4 N" ^; b6 v) k: P# F% R
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
+ ^4 Z b' f6 ^6 F& H- M7 e. etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an9 A5 R7 T' H5 t+ B% ~, b3 K
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it+ O3 u2 ^0 U& X- Q9 {% V
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than# W; q; T _2 G* K
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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2 Q9 _6 ^: q0 v5 L' z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read) c3 Y7 Y0 l# V! @5 |+ z' N) [6 m0 J
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ F8 r3 e* {9 u& c3 T$ J
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 |! Z" _: j* }" V# [
it went x-ed.
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& E3 `+ Y0 m# w+ _5 U1 X3 ]* O2 [Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. L9 u0 q# B/ G$ E, g8 Greading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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