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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his3 U ^7 o. ]+ D" S
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
' f' s# U. {# Z* t) @( {. n4 f% Iperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; Y8 d. }8 a7 ~" i6 F% e) ^# q! neyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
& A& M! M9 q4 X1 Nis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 v, y2 k, ^1 Ftwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of7 M2 j# j/ @8 W, g! [; F/ s+ ]
fight, in a small way.
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1 m. n# o. s: \) {$ ^* lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in5 C* r! u' |4 J' g2 F% U
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the4 P- c, k. d( O$ b% Y
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
) O' h: H# W8 h9 P7 walways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
: X* C2 t f; c7 b$ V6 jdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
6 Z4 F9 K+ b# ]! [9 tsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
7 c, W0 J9 L, Ptimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% b9 D; j, m0 i& s* ~
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 j9 a: p/ N# c4 o0 b! ]0 L) Fheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than; O6 H3 f: w# ~/ @$ F6 Y
the x to which he had been accustomed.$ Z$ t$ w: K* {* j7 B
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) m& r# [8 g& i' b5 W# K3 Cit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# b8 C- V# i6 g+ d2 R H8 R
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
( |( | M& R L; iit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
6 j4 P0 T0 H) C3 Oreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:% y1 G& E6 ?0 z' ?* c
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