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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
+ P% y, y. T6 y) n3 rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
( L2 R( P6 S% ?2 Q; F3 Eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
; \' k. w. ^* k* @& qeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
7 K- P' F; V( Z" u1 A) z( Ais just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but4 C) d' W% O3 B/ d9 }. P8 [
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( Z |% ?! A) }2 v# R n# t
fight, in a small way.# j; T, o3 \ h
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in! I' Z) K, h/ e2 I& |& d* ?8 z9 N3 f
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
+ P" x5 v: s/ v3 ^3 ], R" k8 Bfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
# O2 v! Y- ~' I+ ~4 P. walways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ _. J* w0 j, b" }( S: I* s0 u0 gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
* t# {! y" m! R) K+ Xsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
7 J7 @( G: E% c2 Rtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
! H/ J. |+ p. ^1 ihabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it0 v& p. A- f% R. [6 S
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
, c! X) @" ~; u, uthe 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# K/ B0 D$ I" X9 z d2 ~
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
+ {. ^7 N' X5 cparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
" t/ Z2 ^! u9 u3 j' @it went x-ed.6 w; [3 A3 q+ Z8 z- U. p* e
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( Q% [) n4 J ~' H# N4 M8 X
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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