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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
, |, `! T( A& Zcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,) o9 I z* `( X' t3 ~
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
$ W' s* T* N+ ieyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as' w7 s( { F$ x/ C% b. w- O
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
; s/ _- E) y' L: l0 j" p# Ctwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of8 Y2 \3 s$ s3 s+ _
fight, in a small way.% T; h0 T! n' f0 m: \5 w* O4 e
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in' i! D: P: [+ [4 J! S
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the+ |( d4 | ~$ Z6 s* S
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost( q' A N/ p! s6 ], A+ e
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
' Q O; e9 T" F. sdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
% \7 X9 T+ d0 W) r4 H( rsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
# O+ S4 t" L1 ~+ ~) Ktimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an. r: c( w( w- G
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it \7 `8 o# X% `: d5 j6 l" p/ Z6 ~
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
5 ]9 k5 ]+ l* n/ r( ]the x to which he had been accustomed.
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6 e: @2 y. z2 b4 s! j9 b; R) f( h'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
5 `) Z+ }+ Z6 k7 `2 b0 |it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 |4 z/ t* A9 n% W7 w
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press; x3 C! Q9 D) }
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by. i8 X8 \" E, y1 Q
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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6 O' E& L+ m* F'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
9 E. f5 o0 g: @% ?' dtime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at h4 o- f% z4 z; X) ]
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
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nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld2 u* I! [: v! S# D4 j: j7 n
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut6 [* O1 O2 y8 t
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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