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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
& X6 J) s7 Y3 y, }$ r% T5 ~case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,, j" h! x, N0 `% Y2 C! s
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 e, b' X# k4 h$ f x' R7 Xeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
$ R- W( B* _! _3 N0 a+ ]% vis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 L, j6 w7 P; u4 Y) itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
h8 S5 m3 Y" K5 d7 b8 ]fight, in a small way.
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, R5 i5 R) Y. Z; q& eThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( \' K& C8 `4 H: _# F
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
$ n( |3 K1 ]# ufact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost2 C2 t0 c+ ?: R9 V" h( c
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
/ Y: q u# ]+ J. Z& y. Qdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
1 c/ E ]- E5 d# j# Usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 F& B* H* F! U, S/ O
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
6 c5 n; B% P9 Whabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it7 D8 h: W t- \+ h
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 t/ R* H% Y0 ^, t4 x
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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0 t7 A# { t, Y5 Z( W'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read6 y3 N/ o* l4 w Q3 z* H/ i; @
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
7 |# |+ ?7 h# f' |2 G1 R) K9 cparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
' [. `$ D. Z2 X- C! y" Oit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
2 o0 l. W% o- k. rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:, Y+ n' h( I% _
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wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?* i* R% }0 C8 o X
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
' v* F3 ^0 n. w. d0 Y* A: V+ uxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
( K4 E. k$ u) y* w5 CJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
l9 E `) D$ m5 C" ]: N Wfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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2 ]/ a) `5 _/ b- `: h* qcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
1 j( l* }# P) a$ Inxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld" w, E: d8 G0 h
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
5 I( m- Z$ I- N# Hsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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