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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his0 I6 E! z z4 f
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; w9 ]/ H2 y; M: k1 _- M" Zperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
7 W+ I: S% c5 ]9 [, Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
0 b7 `+ q" U; Bis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but9 D. C/ o/ j& |* y) \& N' k
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of0 T: ~0 k$ w# M9 a( x
fight, in a small way.
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( d4 M' k' F0 a# SThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% F$ |4 b* }; l/ ~0 T8 E0 fprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
9 B3 y/ V* V( ~4 c; `( afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost' b& }/ g5 w3 j/ o: o' z' r9 H
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
# T* A# [' w; z4 J* }6 M# pdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
& m( q$ u1 b. |5 v# a8 nsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- j6 k4 e9 c/ b5 ~3 h
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
* U- z, L/ n3 V3 k) }. h8 Mhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) b5 e5 ]( B- _8 w: iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than) {+ T4 m7 z' w5 G2 g# Z% e u! F
the x to which he had been accustomed.& B, V" }2 E- O# y, Y$ d) v
S u, a q& V- z5 d'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read4 a0 F8 T- c- X4 ]4 F
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
: F' O1 J* B+ m# Q q V, h( hparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
& I7 O# a) t& L4 v8 k6 Ait went x-ed.
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( S& K/ X$ T: F B# W3 r9 NNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
0 Z9 q+ k7 i. }1 d& r m: [, areading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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