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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ p. z/ z3 u/ A% M, v$ y) Q
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,) M( q* O5 v- b' e/ F+ B
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their* e% W3 }; ^' j
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as) H) \8 Y6 n& P! V# A
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but6 t( ~; Z7 P: T1 y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( J. m G: _6 O% u6 Q: g0 u0 P
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
) m0 p% j Y0 M9 R+ \5 Oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the0 F* m$ H7 t- S) j! c
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 T0 `* M+ _/ P+ @always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
- V( A( Q. P% N, N" x+ Odeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most# o& M8 u+ a1 z6 s0 {
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
; \5 y1 o( `$ x' b2 Btimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an6 ?* Q+ E3 N. X2 D! J. O, m
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it2 E8 I2 ?) G! F6 S0 {, ?- J3 p8 H2 \
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
8 ~$ i* p8 c) p2 Hthe x to which he had been accustomed.5 w: i0 O: H. B3 N
: I& p! ~2 \7 i% m& n0 `1 T! H'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read y+ B. i6 ]4 ~, P+ H3 Y& E
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
3 T4 }' e' u6 C1 Q9 F. Qparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
1 @ M. ~$ k! ^" V8 _$ uit went x-ed.* \3 E: {- m6 @# t. m5 n! Z
3 h/ ?; Z4 l+ _* b* }Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
% z+ D) E( W/ G* q% ?! }reading 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
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