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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
* G9 t( [2 K4 E: @8 Vcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,3 f1 A4 @( h; r) Q' |* c
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
4 {+ ^2 G' B: zeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
) |8 h9 ]2 _: Y9 bis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
7 O+ R8 f8 Z6 M) ^- w8 ytwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of: d3 W: B0 x! \7 ]% ^0 J7 `
fight, in a small way.
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: W& u: F O2 Z6 G4 RThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
/ \: r, i) {5 l3 U: }" ]" Gprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the( ~; I+ _1 Y( u
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost, h$ q( W2 A) J8 F
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
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superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old( y! O4 Y% M& g
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) W" z8 P* J1 `) W% a5 ]: E% qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
% w" [& Z" @- M5 h+ E5 pheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 }' t- |% F4 c+ I* L9 z, M
the x to which he had been accustomed.' P& H5 Z7 |# v) v8 r1 Y
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
, h8 k+ |9 q& H; Q, w1 p" Y! p' \it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
6 U- m( K. N4 c& l+ bparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
, Z" b- O# u+ V. J9 H9 W9 e$ Bit went x-ed.+ C) L0 G; h/ N- B# n% v6 D1 t
) {: i' F, l" m$ l5 c% H# `, S( VNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by# ]) I1 A, g( l; Q" |+ K5 y
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, anxther6 z) L6 \( [6 d" B' q6 |1 s
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're- z/ x) g1 O! i# z7 y4 O4 P& a( x: d
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# K2 A+ x, {8 {2 W+ j9 m- cxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,: e0 A5 C; i$ M) W
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,' F k$ _; F% v( w' G
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
6 \0 d" `5 E- s7 {* y; S& Z8 V6 F3 {yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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