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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his# u& w3 M* {: l1 K6 H3 Y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
% o7 A/ [+ |4 h/ Lperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; I3 @' a/ N/ f' O7 B0 T, d, aeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
4 `. |% V5 [6 @) p/ O5 `* t' nis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but S3 S! ~& p0 _" z$ a# [- v
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
$ V+ ^" w8 [+ o% y/ ]) M7 e2 M8 sfight, in a small way.- \$ N& e2 d/ ]# O
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in7 Z' ~5 j( C# b
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the# ?5 A2 P, Q" j n" g$ x" H+ K
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 d: y! `( A( z$ i. ?/ aalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter0 D) _2 J, N6 Q, M$ D) H! ~3 A1 V
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
: J( F, q# l+ Osuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" n5 K: u0 q9 V- j% |4 Etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
( L. y5 m* ^" j f2 Fhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
% q0 [9 Z1 |* b3 r' k) N9 Theretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" c9 B. i8 d7 d
the x to which he had been accustomed.3 G+ F# }; ? _6 {' f$ Q
4 e0 ?8 M! [% t'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read/ ?" t4 F6 Y6 m& n
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# D* {* f4 d7 V7 c4 n P
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 B d' z4 Q8 L/ @1 S7 [7 K
it went x-ed.
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6 _ U' k c* h3 iNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by7 b) V% w. B( y* C r8 M4 a
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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