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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
% e9 w9 U5 s9 h* `$ q1 Ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, S$ P: M8 M( E% l
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their' _1 n# n6 D0 v# t
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as/ ]3 H0 ^9 o8 i4 o) n
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
7 y# T, @2 [' c" @: e8 I8 Etwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of- d9 e, b+ w1 V$ k* e
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
9 S' t* W# \: J% vprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the" f* e' l4 n7 \$ y2 A- \) A8 U
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
6 b# j( R) |' m Z9 f6 {# ]1 |always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
# Y- B/ r1 k E! s. p4 _deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
$ y$ ~7 e/ W# V: `) \superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old4 {- `& v; n9 q+ Y7 _
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) V1 J3 Y @! G- c/ ~( ]4 |habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 O3 G3 `" g( O' theretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
& p3 x y* q* i% Bthe x to which he had been accustomed.% I: j& q3 u' j* v
n3 K' W+ \5 H4 x+ Z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read0 d! M3 {- p# P1 y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) e, ^9 ?- n0 d5 j2 @% `
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 i( s d' k3 ?7 H; `, F1 m c
it went x-ed.
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, L8 n6 m/ Z9 C# KNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
, A1 z' ] v# r# W4 j; creading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:% @6 G& s! o( |+ |5 a9 Q$ f
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