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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 m+ i: A2 C ycase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
: {$ W) i( X7 t7 l9 t! fperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
7 f% b' C* \1 A3 ]7 K, x: F) M6 Yeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as8 V6 H2 ^' ^, C5 B: W4 ~' j% I
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 F. F+ q/ ?; }( K) B% B$ U
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of4 V$ v' M3 n9 R0 C) Z3 h
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
7 T8 H6 i* Z& @. H: Z: }8 Y* tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& i7 C% X ~3 i! ofact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 z: w/ r6 I) X: r+ ialways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter: O$ V, D4 L; k m% L1 A4 r. ?
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
9 c& L5 Q, D( R$ vsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old+ v+ M" ^4 c# y% a$ j! k/ G- g4 r
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an' `/ x. C1 Q9 [: x% s' g
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
; L" z5 B D" \: f" @5 E: ]5 Cheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
0 a7 C6 k8 n, p& w# ^- ]the x to which he had been accustomed.
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4 _4 `2 v _+ U3 h) h. P" A'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ y' m, q- k k1 h: nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! T9 x" G, f4 V. F# ?" g* L; z
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press- y# E9 C6 p8 ~6 T8 ]+ X
it went x-ed.2 d9 `# r! P/ a3 j0 j: B/ J! B
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by& O) d1 [7 f9 \. r# _
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:. Y& N9 Q# w$ w
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