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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe
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一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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$ T1 P. b" i' }3 k7 l' _" IAS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.1 [! b7 h- Y9 M* [2 ?
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his* p- ]+ }3 [0 J0 x
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
) G) p% n/ y0 a2 Cno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
' D3 o# j! r0 {8 ~) ~1 psection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
' r$ X& w, ]9 [* \have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
+ e8 A% n0 H) L7 i/ Zdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
8 [% S- H( V6 s  [! X: [! ]# W) `had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
9 R( w" u& T/ S- w3 ra gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many" _  ~, ~% V6 U; s1 B% @
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
4 h. v; V0 Y0 _' Y: i'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on: U% h) ]+ j8 s5 w
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found
4 `8 f8 V0 V$ K2 A4 ]himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
+ e; c, k( Y1 K1 m* ^, Sdid find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
4 {( X4 Z1 L; j  T. d( o5 fobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;5 i* f  ]: i6 d4 v2 [& V
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly; M( ?5 p6 @5 X7 y' {* g3 P9 w
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
# f7 K/ B8 ]) P! G6 y1 Nhis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to1 u2 ?5 z+ W- s9 O
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this% _1 }; L# b7 d) N* U3 M( o; d
was the name of the new paper.$ V# p. V/ y, g7 L; Z2 H

3 l% [) y* W2 g0 h- q9 B" g. H; WThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
6 s7 p8 r& B1 a4 f0 q* q; Y- Nsevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
  U8 b( u: L2 W% F$ lfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
% s/ w9 P+ ]7 A  S; uparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
4 S7 |4 ~; J9 H" mhave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,+ s6 B" C0 `8 Y6 n. l) B
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to3 ]; [1 _! N7 `) e% e
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs5 E4 S4 E# S" ?8 J* Z% W, W
thus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
+ z1 I- N% u0 P3 uis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world) ?% @; V6 R# R# v% n" C
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'" C, a3 O7 A8 U

' E1 r2 h& I% {" fA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
" _9 F/ _/ g" abombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
, y" {% `% Y" V, m- c3 }* c6 |excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one9 Z9 g2 s9 a; W
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.7 T! K& ^# b' s9 k: a% E
Next morning it appeared as follows:: W+ p" ^7 d- ~  ]1 l
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
$ v" U" B& ^1 q, }; a! U"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,- M! c& j; m: u8 j9 V" m
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
3 X/ }3 V( b* E( p( x- ireasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning9 V8 F# w9 u' Z
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the8 _  X( M( ?: u
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this) `) i; o# `' [
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
( \; {6 a2 C; {) P3 \great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it' D% i. O# _% U. x1 [
is pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations," C" L6 Q. [. P5 `4 g, u- n# |
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,8 R: p' \9 L) D% r4 h2 U* h1 c4 E
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
- r1 e  [2 \, [5 {( T! Chis integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
9 O0 W/ ^9 e+ ]& Y; o6 X  sstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
% [  e* z" M# U5 kBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would9 s# D3 J, _6 _  y! m
soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
' L1 h& h( s) chim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
+ @" k+ \$ z) j4 j/ g) h$ t8 vBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that( S" x1 U* g! k
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
9 x6 |, W2 P+ K4 ^, oparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel% g0 K+ k. s% F3 _" e' Q" H  }
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --; ?! @' \2 [( ^; a. \  f# u5 O/ p& K
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,. x) u1 R5 V8 `3 R8 _+ f, V
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the* {+ {7 l! n2 U1 a" F& ]8 o, j
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!) j  s/ I1 x0 N2 O+ v
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy- O- z6 {8 H; j2 I
could be.
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% U1 C: j, o3 k& E8 H9 i) @4 KBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
0 }, u- b4 T7 l9 jTouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
2 q6 j$ @* M  nbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
! }5 n% P" S( k" J) D' Uthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in/ C+ r& T6 g; W
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
' U! M2 v% E" j; a) T(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards- p6 O$ s$ I; p% h2 @# X8 V
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the: b) t8 Q* S. U( M' G
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism) C* F' G; L3 l
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the. T$ j: K" {' `4 }
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the' }& _7 Q" o! x: v
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
8 J, W; Y; e; E1 g# `5 Cvowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the9 |% J  c9 H! E( {7 h& K
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
4 G7 J- }. l4 w4 Jnot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
4 m# m0 A1 u: h9 ~$ P4 pservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than$ G- o* W) L8 ^, m& k
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to6 h: q# L& Q: B" L% F& k/ `
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go2 u2 T+ Y* F3 [# c) ^9 Z% x3 R
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
- G% R& Z5 @# Z7 k* o( Git was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,; X0 L8 R# d& z- o# g( f
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
( X/ C" _# J; `' L4 tmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really/ ]3 @8 O/ w3 j% w# S
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-' a6 K3 C. A$ d; ~4 ?
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
" G& [( I1 [8 t8 D) I* V& s) Wtime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
3 A; A, M/ H) h" Z+ f# cout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old3 Z+ d" c5 o+ p
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
- Y& P6 L$ R' _  b2 COh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,) M( F5 a2 [  S2 v- w
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
: `' W: D9 y$ MJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
6 K/ Z6 {+ @$ Uowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,1 \/ b' W2 a8 E# I
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a6 i! @4 ^" ^2 e  W2 `% q; i
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your- ]# X- I) W8 R; B$ Y, ]. f
crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
5 d& X# s. e/ ^" [5 X2 j! H  igrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
# ^  |! N# F! d* R9 G! R: Wso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
- [* V6 N% ?3 I/ `, _5 u. Jand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
5 r9 G$ q" k8 L7 U! ?Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
/ N2 D2 k( Q& C  @$ |; y- d+ D1 zthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.; j; S+ l7 z( r1 Q# ]

; H: d: W4 S3 Y# Q9 I& A, J- m# |The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
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In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he0 l+ z- m& v. m0 @' E4 E9 }
looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can/ R4 Z/ v% e7 ~* j8 E- U8 X
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
3 }7 ~9 {5 W# N% sletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single/ O5 Y2 Y8 c% Z5 \* F9 t$ ~- Z
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
- o" P4 Y! I- M/ O; S3 s4 S2 Ycapital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
2 x! k- \( c8 ~  s5 k) j1 Nangry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a3 B3 S: y+ t$ t& R  F+ L
little one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'! I8 }  `! }- H

% y/ {3 b* Q$ Q0 ^3 V& U, K'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning3 |4 i  g' N: z3 d, T- S
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy. D! b( L; w7 M+ a2 I
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their5 k1 ?  g7 M0 e0 p- U
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,% ^  C) G. v* K
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that6 \3 y& D" f6 g- ~
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
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'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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* ]4 L3 ~/ _7 G5 S( s- Y: q( |'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'! \) s5 c- w5 _+ w
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
" w; q: D, ]2 c# b6 z' r5 Wsaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in( V" ^1 D0 J4 G. B2 J5 ?; z$ \
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
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ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 O. W1 l8 {/ O4 |+ X# f! D  O
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( ]  i1 M* ]" |' O1 p; R3 K# O- r5 mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their) }; l/ P! H" _
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: ~! [  t' Y( |& n5 yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but4 a- j, e) V! I& A% V3 J
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! J" P" E+ E2 a: `; e5 X1 |
fight, in a small way.
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: x9 t) Q0 P7 p, J3 V- r% BThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
" X- K, k3 R9 Q- m& S1 jprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
6 m0 p7 u1 @' \. {( ^fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
6 ^, W9 U5 T) a1 l+ Z6 H: zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
7 t: w! a& s  H  A) |% J$ W$ m1 Adeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most/ Z% h2 S8 w+ {8 r" B
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
* ^# _) b- M- }8 m; y  @& Ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an1 x8 d- l8 [9 I- I6 Q- O
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it0 M0 Y; }- n7 l1 C
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
' X  h6 d' M5 w6 O9 Cthe x to which he had been accustomed.! \* _( z# `8 Z5 W

+ `, W8 y  w" r; v# B2 o, d'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
  z" ^) @* Q- O, F0 _; Pit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
  v) l6 U' R3 k6 V+ [paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press# r8 V4 i5 O+ K# {
it went x-ed.$ \/ d4 U% x  l% h
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
$ E/ j: N% [& I& {8 Breading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:# z5 ]& [% \0 E
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther1 k, j9 Z+ p3 X
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're" q6 _6 x, M# G$ z4 |# Y
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld4 a$ C5 r- [  U
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?+ ^0 ]$ `1 E) \# R4 D
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at9 P/ K* ?" d# g- p
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,6 i$ n9 F" h0 y3 R4 R
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a; D1 J; s1 Y( b" f+ Q/ {
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld" l; t1 c4 N7 J; ]
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
  p6 \' F9 Z7 B/ s4 b$ N! tCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
  ?* _. b9 O: q8 C; `! d1 e" jcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
! O7 e2 V" F% k* s; @0 u& Hnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
' V1 x# _9 }8 g/ f! |0 L( R6 M  Xyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
5 T/ O1 Y) d% ~sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is# B6 y9 y4 [3 k+ h; C
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the( D$ l' _5 E6 d* k3 v  N. Y
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the1 ?% k. r( T% W3 X0 t5 u) D4 F
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
5 W1 r5 \% ]; k  g' Eresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
* d  z( j: ]: ^5 S/ _; m- z  \* A; {gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
; N. [2 H5 {0 q3 L& thow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.* Y5 C( e6 a+ p2 m6 q

  w& H% u6 [  |- r3 d0 Z0 B3 OUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
7 k  }2 d! L# N/ K. Y' z4 ysubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
) a( X) I4 T  k% F* O- Dopinion about this unhappy affair.
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4 [& N$ d  D( d8 c) VOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.& V) q3 O7 w. y
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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3 u7 _& |! f( Z$ OA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.- ^: r& W4 n% k) k
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A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
3 `2 ^/ X4 h! i! |  d$ X, \general way, his X-asperation.
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! A1 y* f$ r3 r0 W* |6 i'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.2 {* U8 ]9 y' l. D) N( ]! l0 c0 V" o

. v" ?# g0 l/ ^1 i' V$ sThat Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;" u; p6 @. V: H* ?! E; ^7 o9 e
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
% x' }* v0 e* p: ?2 Q+ j4 W. ?' Stalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,, G1 R5 X2 Y) v4 _+ y8 g# F
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician& v" v+ X8 v6 x& D, d
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
  l3 ]8 z+ v4 m- P$ o- Z0 Vbody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
2 P! Q5 v' P5 O! q  A* p* m7 Iobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.9 l1 a, t4 p+ D* I  r
' m: T) w2 z3 X) _# \7 K. N
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed  }- T( z( U! O0 i8 u; e' U) Q
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
$ a9 D% i# d% Fdeserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.1 n/ D% p6 V! I, `& ~
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
8 R- h% ]/ Y$ s) G, fthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be+ G8 i* C7 y: y5 v2 z
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
- u3 ?$ k. X' ma-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral1 L& b! i1 n* E1 i
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
- h+ q2 n. n& P) S+ r! lthe X-treme.'
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