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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his' G0 L* z: ^3 G' B9 E
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
2 C+ y3 J* @2 k* eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% {) W- b. u: R& T% G% peyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as) p2 o) ]3 ]1 H7 ~5 }
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 ^; \0 U- U8 @twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" b; m q9 o* a$ W( dfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in5 @ I' f9 W. e9 \
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& b3 U# J! \6 n$ k* Mfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
- F: u% f; W5 R6 Talways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter0 I' ~: S5 T0 l
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most6 g9 j7 E) }4 L
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
: J7 j2 b, x) o( k* Ytimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an& P7 u% Q' d0 d, g# o3 ^: h+ a Q
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
. d! F" m1 J3 t+ @9 I3 W( C& T0 lheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( Y. A" N8 ^1 ?
the 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 read
% B: f7 i: _, ~0 }) j! Yit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- ^) g; J* D! v5 j, V8 f% U6 D5 h
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press/ }% x) f' E) m; b& B1 r- @. p
it went x-ed.2 S+ L* s3 X. |8 D' z* q
* {5 N9 r* D) {. L& D4 tNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
) N7 b& K3 z6 f! J' Greading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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