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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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4 N8 l- a2 I7 M2 D- @' V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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$ U! p) Q2 B) Q7 f+ z$ X$ NAS 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.8 r: Q$ t1 R5 n; p/ Q: C- m
   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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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 his
) K5 h/ z' j& }% V9 e3 fmind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that4 l2 C& Y4 R/ }6 d5 B
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
6 s: V1 ^" g4 }# [) O$ c4 ~! Nsection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
; s6 x8 @. i7 S. s" }3 M% w/ ?' Fhave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
! X: k0 A8 t2 g- k2 b& kdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis) r4 H$ {/ l; L! g
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived5 b! h( j* U. D0 ?" \. n# C+ H
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
9 G2 r' ]: a6 n8 c4 `+ Uyears had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
2 ~4 q( t) e3 N# N% Y( E. T5 k4 \5 J( ^'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on& a4 J% I7 R" V7 R# b, U
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found/ e# C9 n3 d! \% X: R! v
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he  p) Y- i8 t+ }# m9 C
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for
( |0 l& h1 q& R, i+ Yobst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;9 E( Z4 ?  S- Y, ?
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
; |! {# ?1 z% W9 b; u; h( ~opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after. c. }9 x. l. i; N# ]" d- ^0 r6 C6 B
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to3 \" D) o$ x. T& o7 q7 @
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this1 b9 D* M# {9 h3 W! x  O  F& X/ a
was the name of the new paper.0 L0 v1 v. j) S( ^
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
# L( ?# ^' v4 a+ P9 m$ }0 tsevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as% _# y  k  ]' o' O, D* ^
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in( \% h. g1 e! U/ o$ |7 `
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
0 l+ [1 i! P, O9 C' Thave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,. J  n8 y1 ^) M* v7 }( j% S3 V
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
; E5 _- A$ I  O) zgive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs% k9 e  C6 Z1 \4 B
thus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
9 O# ~/ m. L4 i( G! i7 ~$ Eis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world3 y4 i# v9 Q( N& x$ e
coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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) k+ p6 B% F+ J8 q& B6 ~A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
2 y! B, t+ X. u- E) c6 @bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of: w& V/ j* S& |. c4 Y8 v7 o/ v
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
' S5 R/ [. [1 x$ G1 N% pawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.6 x7 j9 {( y. E! G
Next morning it appeared as follows:
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8 J7 f. J3 \+ I4 |'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
- X; V. `) g) P, Y4 g, m5 R, R"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
/ Y6 ?2 R' ?5 x$ r2 [# L9 T" \$ C9 Ctempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
' Q. _5 E3 K" [7 I  rreasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning- F9 c  E  }' G) O+ I
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the- c8 {& I  g4 c7 }2 A$ ?% Y, U9 P
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this1 q6 Z2 t& H; P9 s/ K- M* K7 @) V
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
$ }1 O8 p7 c* f5 u5 d: Ygreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
4 |! i& B' h* Vis pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
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however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon( R3 }. ?8 d3 G) E4 `
his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his+ r1 h/ T* O* G4 e' r+ o4 b
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
0 a: }4 P( {' Q# o1 T- M! d  B% EBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
+ m( X# L3 h7 |2 X% m( R: Vsoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
5 [+ ~+ Z7 s! X- J5 k+ khim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
+ Y# ~4 I2 J6 e7 e, l: d8 W1 lBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that; F1 Z* j. z6 v0 m, E
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole! i$ @& K2 E( Y! V7 W
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
1 P; m5 z7 Q' T1 k. Zshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
3 f" m3 t9 w8 v4 E7 bthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
8 `9 X( ^* W  [7 }Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the+ l9 Y3 |3 z& b1 N  b, I$ T) Y
caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
4 U( k+ Q! I9 n% {7 s1 ~. Q+ z1 LThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy9 R8 x+ t- Q. o  h& l' H& ~. [
could be.
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Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
1 J* Y0 C) l' o! _5 TTouch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
& V7 j: X- i9 qbut resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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& W, i( c2 ]( \7 X* i, s5 u7 q'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of
3 m# F, @& m7 v* B. e/ t5 E9 ~the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
/ W7 _* Q3 E2 y' c5 n! g! j$ M" G' Ktomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
% u7 i# H8 X  J' k# k6 O(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
$ }4 T7 x5 z9 O0 ~& |style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the( h, S' A+ ?$ q0 l- O4 m9 p# a
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism7 }+ y9 R) G5 [, I: [% d5 k
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
7 O: g4 l7 B/ S3 o"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
* X- t. f8 S& {6 s& f6 p1 T"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
, R. z7 ]: p5 G( R+ ?2 S9 Z, \8 G1 ovowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
3 t! i3 i. S# h8 r( B4 ]: ahyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly3 Y) B$ F( K: @" ?. n
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble. t8 a9 x: I' s, }
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'. s& w3 U; O( P: i+ A: {
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than- P9 Z% E$ D+ P# l4 U( t
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
0 \* D, C0 Z9 vall entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go
" B6 k9 \- T  ?0 A( b! T2 rto the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that
5 p' j9 d0 |. Mit was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,8 ?! ~9 ^9 ]. t& v( M
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the  |! m7 u+ q6 }* C; r
midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
9 m4 ~( j# N! ?& f7 S: Junparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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/ P) D' r1 X* W'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another+ i4 p# I- @, W4 g+ V; {" f, v8 y
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're3 p5 H+ z5 O8 Q
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old1 w1 ~8 s6 C6 k% F
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
+ s3 l6 o) J9 J) x1 @Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,4 G: P# `. W3 n( {: d% I
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
  J+ _" [8 l  t% s) o+ x/ H% R7 UJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
( F+ M/ ]) ~! q$ C; x. o# t9 A# S2 Howl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
5 D" M9 f; ^2 Bgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a* M: a# y( B" v& r$ x5 ~' e7 D
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
/ @1 n4 Q7 P4 ^  E6 u; gcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
" k" D7 S0 e" T: c7 Z) fgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
/ h! ]/ }( m% S8 N8 v1 [: eso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,( _+ `: t, N% ]
and 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 great0 R# j7 C9 G' ]- w' f
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
3 c7 }/ W$ |" hthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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/ R' S, y: p6 m8 W  lThe 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* d1 Z* w: \( g) T& {' m
looked 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# i& y+ Q2 Q5 `2 p' k
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
4 e" G: i6 q9 M8 _4 |  Dletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
9 U& L- ~' u& ]- e/ slittle-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the! Z9 ^' c. y% I; ~2 _9 H
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
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very2 d3 [9 F$ U- q
angry at being kept from his bed so late.6 h/ G$ _  }; m- i( C/ B
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
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! N/ D% S; O5 H( X$ I5 `  d'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?') ?0 w, ?8 Z! q% g$ ?

$ q/ w( Z! A5 g' N2 _5 F; f6 D6 }9 j'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.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning$ Q+ O+ g. Y) ?, U/ R: I1 Y: w2 k
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
* s9 U) p7 Z. t4 c; P# V. a-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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7 h4 b7 E: j) W1 Z! Q6 r+ r# f, z'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
* p6 e8 x& I+ A6 d  p$ TI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that7 _1 n, U' x% v$ [; R9 Q
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?'+ r0 n( w% i0 f7 |. o4 d
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
% j3 V& s, `( O' G: e" ssaid the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
" _: A# t4 p8 m) ssome other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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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
( W: U& p$ S7 C1 U$ pcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
. n4 v4 O4 L$ O& j$ rperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 ]$ w* V, B$ W
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: q. }: \/ x7 Y' f/ bis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
, v4 H) Q2 F* e1 D# W5 _twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
, Z! u: r" R1 d+ O& l! jfight, in a small way.  K) o/ N! T; ^0 d+ V7 T

7 Q4 s$ B2 t( W; r  j8 i* PThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
3 G" i( |& {! m  Q6 r( U5 Pprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
6 ]% n+ @. m2 D* x& ?4 p# Hfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost' S" u& a  ?- h3 G7 _
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter9 s0 Z. t7 C+ Z; u: b6 o
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
3 q# W; A2 E8 L4 k4 G& E7 esuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
- e2 ^% n) u( r0 r! {8 K# ctimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
4 @* {- a+ ?" u  d5 |habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it: ^9 q0 i, o( v) U' b
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
/ |( `. w# w4 `2 ?9 mthe x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
! O- s/ `7 ?6 o+ m; jit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
0 ^6 e& V7 N% |2 M) H5 G7 nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
  T8 R4 q4 b7 I, dit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
( j2 A, V# E" @6 m* s  qreading 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
9 C& s7 K+ \) z% |time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
; U- D% @9 g  ?$ `7 fxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
6 X" w0 P5 M. S7 ?; Vwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?+ i! A  Y6 ^. t  N! b6 L
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at2 S0 T  d/ z  b( q' I
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,& X% W7 d7 \, f
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a* ?0 s& }4 N& P
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld# U& V& ~* @* V3 W) ^2 {+ Y" ~2 c
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a/ a. H: [* V7 t3 T% |9 q
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur) @4 ]- J$ H$ y/ w& n" n1 e0 G
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
! x% K2 A3 Y2 [% K1 O5 N' Snxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld* w/ M1 w) P$ ~/ O) T
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut# F9 ^( o' m3 M* Y4 V$ x6 |6 }0 O
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is& W- Y; E8 d( z: h$ r  O2 o
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the0 e: P) }: M) K4 N
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the/ Y0 H$ }% J$ `* c* t: N) I) E5 o
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
1 ]) R  f9 X: P4 xresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
+ a5 I% K: D, w0 U/ \, f6 V$ E" rgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell4 N3 s  k. W: S: {3 h
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.9 U. f0 p) H1 q! z& g# i
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length' b8 |& ]  u. b8 ~1 k( B# J: t+ w
subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of: `5 {( t) L0 K. V! ], @. L
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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. ]$ ^) Q  L3 F4 ]& G7 e1 _/ u( hAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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# r( B$ D. b4 \1 @& p$ mA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
0 l0 J) o$ H  k5 Egeneral way, his X-asperation.' r* T5 L9 u. q: Q* @3 v

+ L3 C$ L  x% i" L! g6 s( R4 c. m'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.# L5 Y% U6 \1 a" E: R7 J0 z

/ U  W' b8 B( A% A7 a3 _1 \1 ?That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
, n* Z8 @' q0 I: M! Y8 T6 d. e* ~and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
+ m) h% a) h+ M& Atalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,5 m1 F5 w8 ^5 [; h  Q
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician# R- U+ C, e1 i( B
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.$ B' w7 q4 L( ?. @( i! l
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly& ^5 V- ^$ y) l& F0 Q2 t3 o
observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
! p  S# M. ^/ F  ^6 I
, w$ ^$ s0 w4 KThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed5 L- Q: w; c( a/ d" V% w1 J3 o
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it6 @$ H2 E$ X. F; b8 V( N
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed., |, M. u7 K; c2 L' b3 T. |
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,
) e* i: Q/ |7 Nthat it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
+ Q: ^$ {# b6 v0 u* Dpersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually
# t4 w5 x* p; j$ ja-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral1 @, |9 n6 N$ Y' [
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
% l3 g% E. v2 ~  K( t4 o2 H' Hthe X-treme.'
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