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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! o) `5 o2 D X$ i8 p$ h2 C3 q! N& C, fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
$ L* Q S; n' J$ Operticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; V/ G7 D0 }: R) G+ Y
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
& X4 u% G; d0 A2 i/ l- Pis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; A" n$ r, V* k0 ^2 e2 ^2 Wtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
6 }6 i! D# e- }/ ~4 bfight, in a small way.( ^9 y! W5 d! ~1 l7 f6 b8 a
. t3 S/ _ y6 a. JThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
' N- I( D ] k2 A8 ~# W Uprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the2 }5 h7 j& s+ O% q
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
1 r5 | F- ~; y+ I k: Ralways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
! Q( |/ N9 \' z4 D% S9 G! q- N+ t, cdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most% T2 v4 O9 e; o0 T
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old8 T$ x% M: n) U
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an" ~$ e9 i' n3 G& ~
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it# T; r, s6 g9 t+ U: q, t
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
* b1 ~8 }' t+ |& \the x to which he had been accustomed.- ~* O! v0 E8 X& F$ S8 _+ D
9 o/ u( [ j. C6 ^0 \% b! `'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read! I1 G9 p2 j( e3 j, i
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy( B( z: a9 R H0 I! g
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 L4 l# w" U7 Y' c( Jit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
: p2 i' X, K) U1 F6 F( x7 vreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:1 Q6 j$ d9 Z# f% d3 i: j
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