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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 ~: U9 o# e& _' R& `4 `' q
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
+ q! q# d( ]2 }! `0 B5 e8 @perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 H# s; f4 k" Z% \eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 Y1 Y) t3 B' C" L# K8 Ais just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but( ^! \$ }' c/ d, W
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of p4 Q3 Y( F$ @
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in- b3 O& z* R5 E) C5 T3 w# @
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the9 D K4 a9 t5 F/ ]
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( y% z* a. ~+ p) a5 Q& x2 Qalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
" k2 N' m5 J+ W& Adeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
. U5 {6 P) A9 L$ M2 P& N+ dsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% v5 f4 s2 Y9 R0 P/ c
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
2 @. _, _& u ~9 b) E, ? a* b( thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it6 g U9 A9 |, V0 T4 r- x9 H
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
8 Q% A: Z1 [4 n3 Ithe x to which he had been accustomed.. t4 Z# }% u' |/ `9 E! m3 p
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
' l$ _0 {/ \0 X2 R) Mit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy) m% }; R' J1 h2 V; U' M0 }7 j y
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
# c) C" G8 O- Q+ k [- ^$ ~it went x-ed.# `% h* U# m' k
6 t" b8 H) H( W4 H# QNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
$ {& \! w7 u. C2 s5 C; _$ Rreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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