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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
2 M$ M8 D1 W; J+ Xcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,; s B! U$ U5 d: ^3 T' s
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their4 r( R" e7 B* s/ g2 X
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
( w0 }1 k/ L( Pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 c+ y+ R# @: G+ c6 Y0 ztwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of1 ?5 p/ B; S2 i! m. b
fight, in a small way.2 a7 o% Q, i ^& B
, M9 @ `. c. k2 lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
7 [ Z7 S5 i( ]: x o E7 bprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the3 ~: z( Z& d. q' W. H1 I
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost$ r' M8 U$ h! t! I
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter9 |# |" z8 {8 W! B( k h; y
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: w& k$ R! w8 w2 F1 z( A: r; Q- t
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old! `2 g, D0 S0 ]3 {; p2 V
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ [9 C y# H4 ?% C& b8 Ehabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it1 T* [1 V$ U) t! I' K" ]
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than* a) p) i9 h: e/ I7 C# A* l
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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# w8 G- }- a; @/ f9 S4 W+ }'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ P Q1 r/ |. @" Sit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy4 B2 S5 d/ S8 t8 ~
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press& L! l5 v7 l' |$ E; A8 Y9 @" O: ?
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; J. R* V( b1 c x2 kreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:/ p+ T5 I# z5 R5 k- M1 s% t
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