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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 f) h/ S$ n3 r9 ^* x
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
4 z4 D0 v+ M$ U0 i, e) fperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 H+ c* D! H! s; b
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( k& t& ]1 s! \) m2 [
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
1 P2 Q% Z. Z& w' I) z( P3 { p: Etwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" Y+ @" o& e) _+ `fight, in a small way.
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& B! b; h8 K! m& w9 wThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
0 Y. C4 ]" Y, J4 A2 oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
# y, E! H% E4 p; jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" C* R$ x8 O% W' \6 V* i* s3 W" }" k
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
1 {6 w9 W7 Q" Q n% ydeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
) y: p- r& T7 ]superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% m5 T! n z% Z" T4 _: [
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an( c y5 j7 Y3 T$ I$ y
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) n8 r6 _, g. s. ~heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
6 o9 @& p$ f9 r' E2 Dthe 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
% V# X9 D% n' z; Y/ s9 C- nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) l( T# @0 i6 H+ t; u( H% H
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
/ c2 b5 h3 A' M2 |; d! ?8 @3 lit went x-ed.; J9 S6 v! C3 r/ C! C0 N$ a, X
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
\/ X, N5 K$ R' }/ ]* }reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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