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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 C4 }0 b8 o3 S4 fcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& J% @7 w% Y% E9 f" mperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their2 @* V* v, I# @% D) g
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as) G3 x4 i/ z5 z0 z! U/ m8 a
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but( k& H8 v' y% W+ S9 J
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" S" P; h! o+ `) W: }4 U) {0 w6 Hfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 X! V9 Y5 \# b7 |printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
) g6 O+ s& E6 {# V! v/ b3 s9 }fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost. Z" g# `8 N6 {( r; C5 M' c3 I# l
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
J: y8 ]9 H/ e2 Gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 C7 G/ I- Y; M k& b# C
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 e, b/ t Y( T8 n m
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
/ g: D( Y3 n* H( e2 ehabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
+ s3 {% ?" K2 E2 p" \- u nheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. N/ t, k+ X$ J$ T3 e5 Othe x to which he had been accustomed.- g- c E! X" u5 ~4 C
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read" ]) ?2 J7 Q* L
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
' y$ v p; s* }% p& @% P$ ~! Nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
1 [! E y D5 M x- Q# Wit went x-ed., E( d: v& s3 [0 @/ p) N
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
0 [( A/ y2 V7 @2 s, j6 creading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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