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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
( `% V+ I5 N; r& o3 R; d+ ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
+ M: H# C! p/ O* z% U1 nperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
1 s5 c7 H) `4 h; A3 ^) c3 Eeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
* Y3 ?; t. Q* z! j" ?5 |is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
1 n7 H2 S7 ~( T" wtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of0 S' w- J/ ^ ~* l6 z
fight, in a small way.6 N, p& q" V0 N8 h2 `
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in& C( a( I- ^# r
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the% }) Q, r E: a) @; G2 K& l1 ^0 i
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost# \4 @' [2 r4 c$ k3 A
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 H: y2 x, n* Z) P9 v+ W( h: H
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ Q1 p! k. e, m9 x, v0 xsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
( s( Y5 k" e% x8 jtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an4 ^/ f# { B) `! D2 o- X* w' @
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it# v+ O W. q; F, e
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
) ?- d8 m7 q6 U- R. D& F2 Sthe 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
1 U+ u' ]) b. q+ Mit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& t1 w; \8 n! w' i' _9 V9 }paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
z) o: Z# E& a8 X' [5 O; F0 [it went x-ed.- _( h2 K( i% \% K( S1 s- ?
; i3 o5 {1 w) E, ?Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by) K+ p2 `; o1 P0 h, l9 k+ V( [
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:% \" [7 ]& E& d' `" }
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