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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
, T" ?) a5 v. Q" l( r8 ^case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
% K- b. G& ^1 l- d9 c2 e2 Yperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
( r; S# N( o% k+ v. \- _eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as- o% T5 \' u5 C; s, _7 o: B M
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but% R+ b! u+ x+ U7 Q2 q
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of4 g ^- D, W% J/ Q6 _' x
fight, in a small way.- ], U, T6 G A5 ?7 L4 E/ D! q
# }& r" v0 ^* y* @" H# M: _6 ]The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
* n* [# t4 G0 i- r6 ]7 d2 Tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
# |4 j/ y6 Q3 Q1 y# @3 Qfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
7 J" q, r1 O/ }1 C" X' w$ Palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter8 p, W6 Z! ]( N1 c# r2 N5 |
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most0 G5 i# v$ x6 _+ ]1 G
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ W( Z; g4 l4 Y& J. B# {times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an" v3 |$ f# y) d
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it o: [+ P5 E n* C+ Q9 `7 z+ e6 l6 a
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than. r& f" k) F t: I r
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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" j6 N- C0 \7 W, O0 r- Q6 c8 Q'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
8 [7 V* _, @5 V5 ^! ^it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
/ j @ X# S- l w% ]/ R, tparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
) T: U+ \# O# \it went x-ed., Z' ?6 Y% a- G2 ~
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
% B' Q" K) @" X' G$ }0 f: J8 Creading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:& K' z7 J" J# ?$ v8 V
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sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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