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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
$ |+ t$ ~. c& @7 {, qcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,: O6 i4 d3 W) L- H
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
3 m: z" x+ M! weyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as9 N$ `3 }0 K+ B/ V: o
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
1 ], o( H2 i& F! T2 H) Stwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
: V3 A) Z* |7 M8 b7 H6 W) h* |$ ufight, in a small way.
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; ?% V- K4 L( ]# ?The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in* s9 H) a. b7 h+ @
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& M) ~5 }, f0 Y8 _$ d3 sfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
3 i& t* j: x5 Qalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 G+ T( s' E7 m8 n3 `( [deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most p! r* E' O! }1 J" W4 z2 L
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old; B, E x4 @6 c! e
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
! J1 r3 i) a" v5 E! ^* Y/ ?habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it2 L0 N3 c1 L* M& n' U, g; t/ F
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, @7 W; [! E- I2 A3 y" q
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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6 {, E! H; A6 }: O: o6 Y'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read `* P g/ w+ f" G m/ c9 ~& X: R$ _ g
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
! c+ _0 r" o9 \2 Jparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# J% S0 H9 Y$ S$ `3 s9 i! r
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
7 f0 d) L( s& o& s" O% `; e' I& Creading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:( S5 d3 ?" K0 A1 N; ?& \. d
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