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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
, M# n* f8 U/ y+ f. C( J: E7 c* L8 ^9 Lcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
5 e( Q/ n. Z8 Uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' p7 H, \5 i* C" S. M! Z( ?) c; @% oeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as1 v. G [1 U: Q; v- G
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, u5 `+ u% W* S2 z9 ~4 mtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
* a- i% W5 N. z" l. ~fight, in a small way.
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4 X% e7 M. l7 \0 wThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
8 d. `. H& Z+ Kprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& X/ }; u9 X8 H% kfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
' V F' F+ d Y# ~! }! p' A% P* xalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter8 }% j' `" @# G& B% E
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
, A( ~3 T& _- U" Q% p2 ]superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old, c1 a+ n/ M# }
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an) E/ W0 p# E7 M( W
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
- ^& n' h A; d- kheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 g Z4 p% T V. J' A: U+ ]
the x to which he had been accustomed.1 F6 `* e5 M" H* B! Q
: f6 A9 [# M* v+ k+ }+ _'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
9 N" `6 X' y% ?- Y' H8 tit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy% r2 e2 \9 u, E
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# H% \! {: R$ G8 D, w
it went x-ed.8 _+ j9 a9 L: L: w& ~
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by9 G% I# K) E5 J- ` p; ?- B+ r) ^
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:" N4 J2 S/ ~$ i7 @; @0 ]/ z
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