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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 Y/ d7 Z8 D- x0 _6 f7 n( Q
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
5 @: p; I- }4 n* _6 uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their+ W4 l+ @( V Y7 z6 B7 v
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
; L8 M& C. d Kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but% x! u0 k6 W, T/ _% P6 v6 J N
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of# \" i6 T" L7 n( A+ J6 e4 y
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
) v5 x" s% v$ }0 V, b- Tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the/ [6 T; Y+ }% D$ l" V9 v
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost% h7 d9 _' T1 \; ^4 u$ C4 }
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter4 [1 e; {% \& V& Z i
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most$ L! U( ?+ E- g+ X2 M( R: j
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
@% O8 w- m- G8 Ctimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
h5 S6 Q7 ^; R6 v8 _! F$ {habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it: I# g, q8 z* F
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than7 D, q, C8 }" X2 U$ L" `
the x to which he had been accustomed.# n) o3 e8 `" R. Q
1 J$ n) H0 z; y/ s- q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read {' Q4 J$ F7 \9 D7 l/ a5 e) A- d: |
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy$ D1 @; l5 P$ r
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! P2 m( h$ Q, O9 P' }it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
' D1 e" A/ d# O5 U3 Ireading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:, Y4 a) J& l" H I$ `
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, b0 Y6 X6 D1 @/ s6 S& Y. Osx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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