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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his, g5 Z. Q' N# x8 j
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,3 j1 ~2 s9 v( `9 m0 L
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their# [* b2 g0 |0 ~1 S3 b: V
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
4 [/ i) k% q; | Gis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
6 z% [, ?. Y* w1 N$ a( \twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of/ I+ V( w; N1 P
fight, in a small way.
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& p* B+ H" G) G9 k! c9 PThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
: Z+ i ^" ]8 B- m: l' tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the- V) _6 `1 @( s+ `5 M2 t
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
; r" I3 J) W+ }% s lalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
! p6 ~ L% ~+ T' f; a" T0 ^deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most& V E. {+ N: J
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ ] X4 X+ [9 G b$ i7 u; Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
( i+ S- ]/ [9 x7 ] a; g% w# ahabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
1 X* h% k# Q# P/ w( Rheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 c, \% [+ P% ]3 j6 ?4 S2 x; N+ d' xthe x to which he had been accustomed.3 [8 F6 n0 `+ [+ `) ?
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read; ]* M; P# z+ E& f" {$ D" t
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, @6 f' \/ g. p+ z) e7 c5 N
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press7 X* {! L+ H2 }; N+ o: t, g9 ^
it went x-ed.
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" l! n) E+ S8 m8 }; e; u9 `Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by: P0 a, b. }9 ]8 @' t
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
! R# P' @9 m, nyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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