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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 O0 l0 `( p9 a1 E2 m; P( x' k' o- ~% v
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,. h0 v. B6 z; j
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
- |8 @4 `& X5 b6 { n, L4 W" heyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as, D# K; i/ a3 ^6 N. L8 V
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
+ E6 y1 V: |. H* k" ?twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
5 Q% T( {, v& Q7 `2 y3 q9 Jfight, in a small way.
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9 H3 T# W4 u: }( ]5 {The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in4 f+ V( g# y3 K# \
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ |$ d* {* O0 _* z
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 }1 @ k4 `: ?always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter0 H: H' n& X8 G( _- e+ ]
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most) z8 [1 o3 y( x5 Z& C3 a$ v: p. M7 m
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ S' u- t+ R. [2 J- |times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
7 {- L$ @$ @- ]4 W; L4 q3 \habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
# L; {! R' Z" [7 F' d% hheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( A" c, j' l, \" v6 Pthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read2 E' [! T/ i. {) I! B$ D N
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 L' x( l% I5 F6 e$ A
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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' ~7 C+ q4 v9 g1 r3 p p" rNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
3 x1 h% x' q7 P6 M7 N* F( preading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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