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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
& l+ |& D# |) G1 w ]case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,+ i# a, r! U8 J- ~8 X6 h
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 P8 r# R e& Q P
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 e+ g) {( W) n# Ais just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but$ ~% a3 Q, g/ P; D( ~
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
! F3 ]6 M# I5 L1 P* W2 ?fight, in a small way.
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: x5 O3 i; `( A) s7 L c3 @The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in9 f# d2 I5 G2 [# }; V3 J
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the$ Q! H/ |$ n2 v( W& r
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost- X! \" ? L, D$ ]: f, w4 F% i
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter' P" Z; X0 b0 G- a$ z1 P
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most7 Y" X _9 y$ x. }& H% e+ I
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
y2 f3 e) p5 O+ k( [) Stimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an* T8 [$ b8 I( |4 ?3 h# j) K0 z' h( p( T$ \
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it O+ o0 w% C3 h7 e- V7 N
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than6 @; K9 T& ~( R$ u
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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+ y9 J% N' j3 w2 f'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
& F* ^8 F: g4 i: hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
, |" Q! o H' a: ~4 {paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press! U% L" o/ z) O; q, N$ e
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
U: o8 g, b0 jreading 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# v u) x+ ]8 b& O
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
% m0 } V3 U; D8 Ixut? 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,! Z/ r8 Q, J: H4 [( [# T! f
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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1 [* j# y1 T6 Q. q, @0 ^yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
s# @( h: P! x' h& p8 L+ Csx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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