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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his, b6 F; K0 a6 r0 Z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
3 X+ u5 K( X' Fperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; P2 j: u& \, d4 \4 u( B/ R/ z5 D
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as* Y2 h# v+ X* u- r; P& ~
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but4 ]3 {" i! G6 B/ ?' Z% g& S
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of2 d( r! D5 j& }+ P
fight, in a small way./ A; W* u, q6 b/ O1 ~5 l
* e7 P8 T2 o( ^. R0 o- s1 r- ]The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in% {* h0 w3 G4 E# i4 N: e5 }: Q r A
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the0 E" n3 c& t: x4 I5 t
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
3 }+ H9 Q& a% t+ K& T- Ralways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter3 t- P- r9 l3 d F3 C
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
3 ?9 _* l" v1 G* ^$ Isuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old7 z; ^5 E5 Q- H* a
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
* _0 {& {$ S3 H% Z3 ^. C% t# {& Lhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it4 k! u. p- y. h. C
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than2 I0 N8 h% D" R; J
the x to which he had been accustomed.5 s9 j2 J3 R! M/ q5 f# ], P+ l
3 H0 t2 U9 r! Y# ^8 m; b; H'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 I6 x6 G9 W5 V1 J/ `+ A$ o
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy( {9 j; L4 `+ Q9 ]
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
b- l! |* p1 @) _( O' e4 G* j' tit went x-ed.! Z4 c5 l2 [: Q; Y
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by5 B, p: w9 F8 n7 {- N: ]
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:5 m. x3 Z3 r# C! [$ ~5 h
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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