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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
7 N/ L4 z1 L. v4 kcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,8 k: L. d8 X0 v9 r
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their, x7 ~# A9 u6 k( [% z+ G
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
$ z6 k" l9 x# E: s/ ois just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but; w* g! u+ ]0 ~6 e6 \( g
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 ^: K" ~. e) W/ t2 u, X
fight, in a small way.3 a) ~; D5 z* t9 S
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in2 x& G) h+ _9 ]! r3 f+ ] L
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the- N! h9 W1 m" q7 v( _5 @, b
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
5 i" T/ w$ K% ~0 l8 qalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
& p) a' c3 i) W3 b( ~3 F9 Jdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 [7 x+ Y- G6 k5 Q+ n% _
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
1 k7 N5 Q, _5 v% O xtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
# Y5 q, U7 ~" U- k8 Jhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it% {! o9 v6 ~% f3 f
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than) t- g9 l* a& d; ^, b, V# U
the x to which he had been accustomed.. o6 o$ }6 n7 R( B1 m. C; [" O
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read W* ^- s$ Y+ M0 M7 n: {
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy8 y5 X7 h8 l; F4 L4 G' g
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press* ]. }% N" l7 m$ q, ]; m& p7 Y4 D
it went x-ed.6 L* h' v) ^6 Q0 h0 L
$ I% |. [$ q5 S2 N9 k6 ?Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
2 h" A5 P, J% z* _reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:8 [0 i; n# W# F8 r( _' Y
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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