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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
1 J1 N! H: y( ]$ ?3 U! Q Fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
: _/ ?1 S; X* k& N. f+ dperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their( a& T7 G& c. N5 x& B4 ^/ M4 P* [
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- k7 F* p$ W1 x1 R8 b' Tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: X1 m2 n" D# k @: z! ]
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( \$ [8 c* _) \4 r
fight, in a small way.& r7 d1 Z' }% N
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in# U0 f* [" z! X9 h
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
/ M1 p1 g' e9 ]. ~- ffact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
5 M8 k. W+ P3 L: Y: C* Ealways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter( r' o; ^/ m% ^/ y
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
' R. M1 l) A5 vsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
' R: \7 u* P; Ctimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
$ V: F% C; ?: @3 h2 n, Qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
; X; \; w; W2 Nheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
: o7 O3 G5 L Xthe x to which he had been accustomed.5 _3 w% i X2 L8 q0 y+ a
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
( a3 {! P+ ^" b; T/ _3 M; I) Iit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
$ M- J* k4 {* `/ wparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press: P( X+ u; k6 z
it went x-ed.- q9 r5 ^6 R4 U2 S% `6 Y
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by3 ^6 W! P2 w# y2 ?
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 |$ D* I! ^+ Z2 ~% w
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