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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his6 I4 Y- a" M& P& f+ t
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,0 k( ^2 I6 m |
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their8 f' @% j6 L' z* W" f, o7 }' ?8 \
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
|! D4 X( }" l$ u: Y2 ~# Xis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
+ l, \% S( L: [- T1 Ttwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
- q0 |% e( v! t+ x5 }- Z/ n$ Rfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
+ G0 v3 u# R) e4 W9 ?printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the/ E# c. O8 i# x: [
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost* G8 f7 v! _$ \# v* H/ p! l
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
& I$ [, l+ Z% Y9 N) V sdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
( h7 ]; y; g. I% esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old c7 |; w& N5 r) g/ O
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an( j0 f2 t7 ~+ m5 t7 ~5 p
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
j7 Q1 C0 H7 W$ z6 l Y6 j2 ^heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
* B# d3 D" }& xthe x to which he had been accustomed.8 g* j0 u* M5 }" \9 S- g# j
3 C$ r- O& }$ @5 M+ C'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read0 @: w' H/ T1 C! a5 D
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
+ ^) e9 p7 S. m' Qparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# p6 d. W: _0 N+ ]# Y
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ d6 P$ O) p9 e: q! w' L
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:) q! `) m, ^: V/ K; J- f8 d5 y
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