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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe
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一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑 6 R! z0 K  n+ k) e

# E( L- o4 s; z) n7 g3 \AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.
0 R8 w9 m, s; P   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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( c4 V: F! g, i3 {/ o8 q5 U5 vI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his3 x9 H2 s1 @8 b7 u3 y1 p- n( P
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
( b1 M9 H" L' H5 l0 X" ~5 M. M% G& qno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular+ q# x7 p# e) U: e
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to7 i* M9 J" d, T3 C
have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
, E( u/ u, j# {' f: T8 p' ddreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
6 {  N! e" u/ thad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived! s  P5 t2 M4 ?) ^
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
: F5 B* E  c1 V+ @1 oyears had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
% L  g8 L# G+ z5 F'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on0 L6 h2 b! S' U1 ~
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
2 z! @/ e5 i. F" R* Yhimself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he3 z' q( e! ]8 V6 P  `/ ?' e; l% [& e/ N
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
7 P: f2 p" ?$ {* zobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;# x2 [; \+ P, ^# f0 m2 w
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly3 F& U0 e# g6 F9 g
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
0 S/ e, w& u: F0 t9 ohis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
6 S" }/ f( @9 Jsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
" s' o. H1 V/ H' W3 V. owas the name of the new paper.
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
5 o/ u. t# z0 w2 H7 E0 D4 hsevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as. _: _! q( y% C- e6 q2 B$ U6 y
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in' U2 ~: t& |( Z3 U
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
/ R* C' S* m/ M5 O4 ]have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
+ x- O/ T( J  l6 i, f% v5 Jwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to6 S8 W7 x" O% H2 d  B1 k/ Y
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
$ p% W6 I: y$ z, f- S0 b  Qthus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
# F( |* S1 J. S7 ?- V  Y- R* q- yis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world$ [3 x# h: `, l) {
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
" `9 M9 H. \4 I( Qbombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of- P# p; D2 j+ L0 g( Z6 Y8 F
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
6 g! w  X8 D: q' ]: [awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.: z0 z, _9 G' P1 J" g4 u
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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0 |# [+ j& _. x7 F1 v'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
4 i9 N, n0 j0 _"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
$ q0 C# @. H+ L# G1 `+ a4 }! v4 T4 S! I9 Etempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his% w8 [% b: x1 z* ^- L
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning3 K9 L. T4 J6 g7 N# ~( G8 B$ P
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the% Q' Q( W8 T0 m. `! K
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this8 z$ `3 M4 y" I. t! l) z) u+ v
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
, Z1 \5 H! S/ Q4 o# cgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
9 n& K0 ~% p2 V, Iis pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,1 o* q# U9 }4 \! ~+ s( z
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,: k! g7 @5 R0 Q; D) X! x; G- ?
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon" k3 |5 b4 a! n. o- U
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
, M4 k2 g# N. a/ R$ K9 h  L+ lstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
& X* }1 F; N% `Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would$ {6 E! M! n$ o) n9 w5 f
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
7 [1 g) ^' u  r' T# yhim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go2 U$ P) c. `) N1 ?1 J
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that% g6 `% @- _( f: p3 E8 }
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
' x4 \; p% m% b% g& A# F5 gparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
6 Y  e# M+ S, @" o6 y* {/ Jshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
" H: A: q4 `) L! X9 N/ hthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,* v2 v3 D  Y  h9 N, j; N' F4 X
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
5 {, Z, J+ N7 ?caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!, |4 R# A( E, I0 }$ Z. F% T* M
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy0 g) R5 z- M5 \) b9 l
could be.
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6 P2 V+ U, [. m( dBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
7 j% c" l9 N; u+ X; @Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
& Y$ V) l4 {# Y* s  J- Cbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:3 O( \+ a' Z- }, P' r5 h' @
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of0 D. k3 P* ~* V! J, e5 F
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in3 d3 ?3 O7 W0 G8 s* j6 ~
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
. m+ o, {! q$ j3 d(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards, Q8 v0 S2 J6 I2 v
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
4 g) h! Y2 y3 Z" x0 U+ Tsupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism$ v7 x- W1 E0 d  G7 N6 r
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
+ L8 Z' q; ]7 @, a* \- h8 U7 y"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
; {6 ?6 U4 z+ T" j# a"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful/ e& r+ c  ]" V/ G! x! o( G
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the  J7 A8 ?: d  E1 o
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
: v# p# A6 ?# Bnot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble2 ^# p& C; h& n- l- D$ n/ U
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'- D, L* B9 ^$ n* x6 ^
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than7 i# x9 p8 r( t9 k5 R
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to/ s$ L" k' T& F9 l  l
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
0 W/ Q2 F5 C. C& y% A! f2 nto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that) M2 b: p) v8 Q
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
; e! n6 q3 W! q  f0 V, \I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
0 h7 B: f# M7 [& mmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
/ P) L% N. Q. Iunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-/ B' a" o& o0 f/ ?! o

0 i1 ]: ^( r" D, J% C! y; ^'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
% y; ~" |& t( E3 ptime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're9 b: t; b7 C, {; i9 @+ u4 a; q( W+ _
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old& ?* }+ S/ A/ G
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!1 Q% h' ]! @- A6 |2 K
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
# v7 d9 o, l2 ~, cand don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,( n5 q- A6 E; A0 H
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an' L! R/ F2 H% y# y- u: H. b+ E' n. X
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
' N& t/ m5 A0 b8 `1 d, Q! N2 f2 sgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
( ]) `6 d7 L# m  \2 `4 pConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your' O8 O  C' G0 c2 u, w9 |; @
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
( N, ~6 Z1 t/ f2 N' r% ~growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you/ x8 V$ V* }, F! z8 O3 X  o
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,$ D5 v3 {" V& L& x' M
and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great( d/ x4 [& b) r' ]1 K% d
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to6 W) r" f! A7 S2 ?
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he; @4 w8 ?* f- l9 i6 W
looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can- b2 n" }$ o9 k( J6 N, R- k
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
& O; Z9 [0 `" qletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single. o6 w) U4 f( e
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the  j1 R8 }. m8 L
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing  \2 j" B1 |$ y- Y
without no o's.'
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
! f9 O+ |) i2 M5 g$ Qangry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a: y9 z' g9 a" ~
little one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
$ |6 ?: k" m3 t  l, Q* W  l: hpurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy5 T+ v+ a! T9 a. p
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their0 w: L& Z1 p& d; u9 r
i's .'
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,, Z: C$ {! X$ A0 p
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that6 x& ?: [$ Z% J
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'7 f  I* M+ O" u  q5 `) q0 y2 D0 u
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in/ ], i: P* R1 R- _% Y
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his1 K9 v  b& h! {) E- S( J% `) K+ L
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
% x" I4 o6 |6 |2 N+ o2 i' hperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their! o# m$ N+ a/ I# }7 d
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as1 j9 w6 _- A. F
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but7 P0 J  a1 R/ T) J
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 x- D6 O. ]5 Efight, in a small way.
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: _! ~/ {* `, }# DThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in" y# h7 Q' n& p, I) ]
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the1 B' o) [" W! P6 @" M
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost( b6 @$ D2 O7 s
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter* P& J2 G8 O: n% P1 i
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: P1 X5 u8 f8 X: }4 p3 ]7 @' a
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
! a* n9 b1 ]  P7 s' V( qtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an: x; n) W# g' k9 {1 N
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it$ j" o. m# @% v" P& y% `
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
+ y: ^0 g0 r8 ]* s$ _the x to which he had been accustomed.* s% E. o4 d; i$ U/ I
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
9 o7 M7 k. j$ _( [, s$ ~, l( Vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& J) K5 |" y% h  P. j( a9 u2 p: Iparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: N5 i# v4 P; s+ dit went x-ed.
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. P" {+ o9 D$ \Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
% n$ z/ u. R- y, ?! E* q* ireading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
6 F2 R( @! u8 p4 Ztime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're6 ^2 H" l' h; D1 n1 [
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld; \7 k; A1 u5 ]' f1 j1 u3 q! {% B
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?( |+ W+ s4 j6 @/ T
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
/ N# N2 j" _" C, E2 R8 \+ ^, _xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
1 c/ ?4 u6 R% T8 C5 O/ WJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
( ?8 v/ y6 m/ V  i. ?fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld+ y: @0 M/ u& t9 _$ ]7 |
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
2 e4 o; ]- r. [Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur- w" Q# O0 h) r5 {+ r0 M
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
4 C. U0 h1 U: C$ ]' i2 C0 F- Gnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld# Q) b: y1 F# J/ a! T3 f
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
, X: B+ e! D( L4 csx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
$ `" ^+ }* b: \, @# ]. A- knot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
! O7 ]5 |! _9 L7 N3 Hpopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the% W$ n9 O. l3 F3 F  S+ |
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
/ Q* W$ {' m) J6 u& Qresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that/ l/ h6 e: b- h+ H9 h, Y8 _1 W
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
8 G1 h; L2 ?3 c1 y' Y2 khow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.3 j; T! l: Y+ N8 c; @& `& m$ d- c

$ |; E- E! O: q) S0 aUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
. l  F9 V* Z5 T7 B" ~subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of/ Z. l; w7 }3 M# v! X% C$ ?. a
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.3 ~/ q" c# k0 z5 K) ?  d

# p; q* O9 }9 l! B. gAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
7 k5 i( P  e7 s7 V( Vfancy.
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a! f4 F, H1 V( Z1 V' A3 j) ^2 D" k
general way, his X-asperation.6 W+ g" O! R5 N
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.
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. N1 q# Q. c. o; u5 `& ^# c2 zThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;" q' p5 \) g3 l9 G# N) g
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
8 v" Z6 l' i; R' k3 n" `talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,' f& {8 s+ G" a" r  X; g
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
$ m& a  x. @" R- L; ~confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.9 }' O- N6 R/ X, Y" y( `" m
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly/ t+ s/ K' V9 r
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.) K0 r. @1 l) b4 a$ L
+ |2 q, J; h% |. a
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed( r3 Q) v1 u1 y/ ?0 k
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
; g$ i0 V5 R0 F0 f- Ndeserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.  N+ G% N) p: ]. j, g
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
# L3 O$ e0 z' hthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be8 C/ \" s; L4 x+ x' K7 {& D* `
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually5 {* F4 M+ d* S% q; h% \+ u
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral" _8 ?, ]; B1 q* D; n! g5 f" V  g
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in( [- A# A, D$ z9 t
the X-treme.'
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