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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 o1 c! k9 W4 I0 n P E; G2 Mcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,/ @* o9 T- y( w+ v+ h
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 w5 h4 k$ k4 ^5 i5 Heyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
3 K! g2 ^* n( c; Q1 Mis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
( }1 k$ O* S+ o; @ `7 J* s8 ^twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
! H/ K+ M* h H& ^fight, in a small way.% N' n! d J- q. U: E
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
1 e! G* L x7 t# G6 vprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the# J3 U4 A0 f8 m6 |: i
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( h! B# f+ d( T" @7 K r( Halways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter X6 P2 }- l0 v8 W6 I! n
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
2 G4 [5 J) z8 d# S! F0 psuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( W+ R: u' K5 P) Q! R$ w
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; G0 x2 L8 }4 V3 B! Yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% {* p9 j+ O8 ?3 @' i$ E, k+ {
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than- N- o+ M* I2 ^% T; G0 j
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
* d" D- H# g' S# Nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy" d2 ]0 Q8 f: }* t; q
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
% u6 j2 }9 ]5 g& I+ Kit went x-ed.# x& f5 y- p; H9 [' G: T0 ]
! X3 j2 s4 @( F* J' j( m1 LNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by+ T/ ?+ k0 d$ h' b+ v
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther' H3 S( j* ?+ k S+ |' ]% k
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
' E: y) M3 A7 ~4 A4 F" j# t: Jxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
6 m9 _0 ?4 q' p) r- `$ lwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
4 }5 ]) g* U- Y6 ~. Y0 ?Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
; w7 S, f+ ^" `" L# O Uxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
1 z) [% Q1 A, u) O- r/ ]' P+ y0 NJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a) ^( d1 s/ Y7 a. d- n8 n4 K0 p
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gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a0 S2 F- K: L9 O+ }0 }8 l( D; Z
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur: l% f! Y& K' X) r
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
: b$ y0 t9 n; y( l. _( Lnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
. e# v; I) {7 k+ T9 j3 A1 Z9 }yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut) q4 N6 A( U) j. x& O. p, S
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