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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his' C" C! x: ]/ Y5 D) L" C2 N/ C
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
1 D% }2 K+ s) A( b1 cperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
7 q( |% Z8 j' \3 n/ ]- jeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 \3 ?7 l0 ]4 a) t# C6 v; Yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
4 j/ D- r5 {+ i7 ^5 i4 F, x4 itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( @7 z$ E9 S2 w3 k) B
fight, in a small way.: E; Y( a$ ]% k- O; b
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
" d- _% z2 p$ jprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
D: W# d( j ~+ [! d$ zfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 z# A/ ?$ P, ^& Y7 `. ^; }+ }3 Walways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
2 ^5 b+ R5 u' \deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
4 U5 K' u9 Z% V3 Bsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 L& U7 u) c3 `: R& g. F9 b
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an) u0 v. P- {- {6 z7 }5 K w
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it4 ^+ m- q4 i$ Y- T7 l7 q
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% M) s' k: }7 l X. @
the x to which he had been accustomed.+ H+ N% p* ?4 Y
7 Z' y, ^& ^# M- f' n8 |'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read5 e" N0 _& F* R
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
' A$ L" Q% u- I$ I/ Vparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 C8 J" ^/ A4 ^( e
it went x-ed.' ^1 _0 @9 F* F, i9 h
& n0 {8 y0 B- U% c, g9 ~Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( ?/ W6 W% u2 A
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:& ^+ h/ A0 v6 A1 v- _/ o
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