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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe
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3 Z( t# \1 h0 ?: S一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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  N+ a" ^% o* X6 xAS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.
6 Z! f6 l/ q% w; F; H   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:57 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his8 p, b: |4 B5 `
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
/ r# d5 P( N9 P' d) Rno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
' E6 R, i: r& F& j" A" t* Q- lsection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
2 I* Y% L8 D% T; @3 y( yhave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
$ d- {* N: K/ i- d" y' Cdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis. S  G* b9 j4 E9 Y& h; T
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived+ d2 R" l8 d- S9 ]5 o6 \
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many- w6 |; x' v1 f  F8 N
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
: `2 b& e2 L5 k% I) R'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on5 f2 o6 \8 P4 ^/ z( a; i+ J' J
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found1 V2 U& F* }  m, Y$ K# ~' G
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he( U) Q: o1 e' v% V1 w
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
" L5 Z# Y5 o3 i( ]. W: s% iobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;: a5 _# ?6 F  N
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly7 l2 n" G; X$ R: P
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after1 v- H9 j7 e' y/ w6 n& m$ C
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
) _* L7 k: \0 r3 Y# i* l& x- r3 E) l2 ksay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this$ v; V- Z6 B( X4 k9 [6 r
was the name of the new paper.. n+ P- p& F5 a! O5 @5 y! o4 r
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say4 P# ?, p4 ^+ p$ W6 X$ C  G
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
  C6 r. |: M7 T  ?8 x; }for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
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have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
: ]/ f3 @! D% c7 gwho is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to# u/ R3 b( _; U2 T
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs/ L7 j) O- O; m
thus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
7 x7 f6 k0 |1 d% Mis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world; N; h4 X' I3 j4 d
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'  g% L4 M6 |) L" Q9 C
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A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
7 T& [( n2 q5 X& D2 _bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
- d4 Z: k  G3 K; V7 c- n* o. u& aexcited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one+ [) @9 h% _3 ]) G  t8 ]9 i
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.3 B" ]5 H. w7 v+ w
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:$ |+ A" ~' y- G- D* J
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
6 a, q2 k/ z* Q! [tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
0 W2 O5 V1 @8 L; J# e" Treasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
4 h9 j, J2 t# F& N; n# pnor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the( J* Y1 j- S5 ^
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this; [; n( B9 W, c$ `, }
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a. K" K. ~4 x; n% ^6 S! W0 P  s, P
great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
0 j1 F. |1 o8 F  W, P# j+ Ais pitiful."'2 N9 P5 ^2 `) o5 f
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,- l- @" q, L2 H2 r0 N6 ]
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
5 |% u; C' N$ \however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon: }  o2 F4 X4 i. K
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his1 q" R9 T- M" l
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go* k& N3 p9 A$ G( r0 d4 b7 Z
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
  T0 V1 i( H2 gsoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let' ?  d" R1 a' l) {! f& F
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go, R! A9 M+ p2 V8 e. R3 U  V
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that0 i+ F+ S1 w3 v1 r- B1 M
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
, M- O6 P" Q9 Q3 sparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
6 N' t1 \3 I. M4 O6 S' R2 ashould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
6 M4 b, J! d' X4 U# Cthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
- p1 W5 r8 c7 c2 k8 cBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
  z2 B4 f8 G% u. k- Wcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!6 T+ [  u: `, v9 B3 i8 c
The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy: p$ R) g- n% ]
could be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great3 e: z" A1 P# q  h. d: K
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
+ b" [* H7 s1 w' H% Tbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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- j5 f  j9 _3 q% a. y'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
3 W" V! Z0 _- }1 q( nthe "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
" W9 B4 X$ \0 Y% t4 [) f4 ]  Ftomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
( x1 e" W  j& {' f(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
) z- H& x- H9 f% [# zstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the1 G; ], A. v7 R+ a7 \
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
" s; l- J- o$ I8 W' d8 e9 a$ X2 Pof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the. M' W3 B4 R' s3 G7 g
"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
1 }  l* [' |- K% w"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful3 Q# z' i8 u- Q# e1 G4 O0 f5 C1 x6 u5 B
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the! {& I* y" Y0 _
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
! n: B0 j& V8 z9 Y4 o. C' |4 Xnot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
7 \$ f8 [8 f  n. P1 P2 z* [servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'7 e8 _1 ^3 ~) A+ Y( ~* @( i+ U; [- q
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
1 i6 G5 B1 m3 R2 |0 idecidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to- U$ g) ?8 ?7 P0 G
all entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
( l+ i4 q: S9 P0 z% S# c. a1 \to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that4 n( A; X: r( r0 y8 t# l' ?9 e
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,
! ?: p/ q3 X3 N2 r  J* [I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the/ p4 g% ^+ g. A
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really: |. m2 A. }. s% K
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another
) u9 b8 H; S. ]" }2 @$ Btime, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
& b8 q, k! c7 s" c/ p3 ~. pout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old0 C( U8 H) b& u7 F+ x' Z9 m
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
) f7 G: O$ `" m9 q/ F2 VOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,1 x: e- [2 ~1 Y- n& m1 K
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
2 W. |4 V+ @0 r/ j7 u! Y* ~: n4 |John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
4 y/ C2 N- y# m: Eowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,' K/ [6 g6 `0 }! @) N
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a$ u$ b8 L+ s* b3 ~4 p4 G
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
8 t. [0 X  l4 A6 d7 ~5 |! [crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor5 A3 V  f" G8 r/ J' E7 s' K1 N
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
* C6 u+ J. ^, L( d$ Kso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
" C  m# n8 H* u2 \' fand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great% k. u  p- S. ]( |+ D6 Z9 |; X
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
2 Q3 I/ C% y2 r" t& pthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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. U+ u/ m( L! g; g1 S+ b1 yThe printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
7 l: S  h% ~9 u6 L: dlooked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can
( W$ X6 g) ^; i2 C+ F; hdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a! w: o  R- f( ]0 e$ E
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single* c( m2 ~8 B- h2 H7 d, O) r% i
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the6 n& t+ H! \. e8 R9 f
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
  j5 ~! y- z# \* ^& H! Gwithout no o's.'% W5 x- V6 N2 R/ e4 l
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very$ X* \  x) Y1 E6 B( V5 }/ f/ t9 \
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
) ?( h! n  z: v0 S! v) Z# ulittle one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?') s8 V* [! s# G, O# m% [% U
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'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.', N" d& p4 J6 Z1 \6 R3 N* A

. a+ A; s$ R. @'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning' a/ X  {6 k+ j' |7 n
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
* a' H- i4 r, N7 w-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their3 Z$ B1 }9 J: Z, [4 Q6 B4 K2 \
i's .'
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: t0 ^% G2 q  h7 {9 D1 N8 q'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
4 u& Y" w9 n2 W' o' y8 i: BI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that
* k& Q3 F% z8 ]paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'2 x1 J2 _! |' r' R# f

, z! l: J( K% }* k8 {* P'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'1 O3 W( x8 }. K& ~
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
* G) c$ x4 y" x  Msaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
( r8 U' S* X. ]* U; jsome other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
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ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 v  |% r$ V) U$ }case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; z% O& g( D3 i% Pperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their; E) j5 i, I( P8 Y1 T
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
4 k4 C& s* O) |6 P& c+ A! Y. yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ T+ e; p; @% P: f- n, i9 o
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of/ s4 |3 t5 m  A% X7 s+ K2 e2 C) L
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in) i7 G2 F2 x! ~! t- L
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the! Q6 g6 B9 A: j4 m1 K5 H/ K5 M- T+ j
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
$ D3 f: ?. |. P5 E8 C  M4 }always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter8 D5 o% @6 p: t. _5 D2 G
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
. m2 T" A5 [2 r2 |- \4 s- Usuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old) I+ G9 y' Q4 \; P1 o
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% V0 h2 `& c( |3 T& _. X
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it9 ]' }. |( Q- s  w
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% l& C$ ?9 {# j8 A: \  x1 Y( N( c
the x to which he had been accustomed.; z+ E5 ?1 D3 U

1 G! e7 H; v% L0 I'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
+ l9 ?; m- R7 `# l& g6 {4 [" ]5 s( ]it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
$ {+ H( T8 u6 B2 l( K! Sparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press) v9 w" U& K: K6 ~
it went x-ed.3 ~. A+ ~! ]! p

3 S5 ]/ U3 q1 R9 A( c' eNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by/ |% X( M4 ^- `' K8 c% X; `, Z
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: z0 |: Q4 V& E9 g
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're% Y- p* x4 c8 ^5 A
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld6 p- q, P! w! a# |, s" N
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?* N3 Z3 A5 b# D# L% L) K
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
5 S' w. A* b  S$ w3 K4 l. Sxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,( U1 O" @4 X/ L% m6 x
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
% L) S7 F2 S. b. O: @$ lfxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld9 R. ]8 |0 Y, J  _. s5 j
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
" V8 H% S+ I, U' n  R1 ?Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur. H3 [# b) b* b$ t: _8 {: r  f
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
" D, \# N+ \' z: i- ^5 h0 m! enxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld0 l: |5 I+ a6 B/ L, ~& i8 {
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut9 O1 V$ Y& X7 D* j1 ~
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
$ Z& W" ], C. O4 vnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the' H6 P  D' P, R
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
0 L1 s: {* p) ?! ehieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's9 J# k& a* t' b- n9 n
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
+ n, H; [  O9 {3 Ygentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
# O4 ?( a1 i# _0 x" W+ t$ phow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.+ M4 p0 S; M8 h% a' `3 b

: L1 l, b' i) ~: g7 B. J- h+ y% wUnable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
( E7 r# L+ o& Jsubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
& t+ V5 E% }# w2 e1 lopinion about this unhappy affair.
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' f9 Z! C' k, F; ^) Q5 aOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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0 o5 @+ K# ?) W" x: _Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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- c* F4 A# _. z) UA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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+ m4 u9 V9 f+ j2 y1 S: ?9 x. rA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a- v$ `$ J/ q# o+ C  [
general way, his X-asperation.
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.6 s1 P' S& V9 x. @: C2 u
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
0 U% ^8 {7 S/ \* \and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
6 O1 @( q* U' F& ]* Xtalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,
. `- z$ a: y9 S/ p6 EX-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician' c" u( ^( j1 A7 {
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.
* v6 B3 N7 ~. ^7 obody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
) ^) v9 n- B; l1 {5 Nobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.
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) K* L; U% ^$ B- ^* w+ f4 MThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
# V' _7 I. W  m% y8 D. n" Uthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
+ ]6 C8 Q  ^2 A, `5 x! O( ]deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
/ ^1 i$ H% b' Y- Q- T7 x( _8 cHe said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
0 K2 u- \* t( ]: i* T! N+ x% _that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be: p6 S+ G5 a( ^- O+ v
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
) Z6 j1 ?4 ?, O7 b2 Pa-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
0 e( F6 |6 [4 e6 J0 c- yconsekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in& L* m# c& E3 O7 ~
the X-treme.'
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