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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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' o5 x0 d" y5 O3 J6 J5 {! U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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+ W. B7 N" J) C! P3 |1 C" VAS 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.
7 ^1 f( C, V& f. j   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 2 e% A9 k8 k$ l: w
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I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his7 X( w. |% z- [7 g4 x
mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that" T" f$ V6 ?" A0 a
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular4 }5 k% q5 P5 R  V' N
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
1 D% u7 |0 p* V5 d7 E% Khave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have
3 b2 ^% l4 |% X1 N$ \6 Z' hdreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis  p) U0 F3 o! v# w
had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived* T) e  n3 h; P7 _2 c; l5 t/ H) R$ P
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
! S5 k) r0 d2 q9 _6 |% {years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the
% O. ~! T$ B( u) V- k4 H  T'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on
9 |# ?; _8 Z; V1 t8 g$ baccount of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found6 E" b6 g1 m% {  r
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he4 K* y, d3 _) {
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for: L! y8 M6 O: k1 l! Z; e9 `
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;* F8 c* S! \4 z* Z8 |
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly. T9 i0 Z- r7 `' |9 P- w% O
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
) J0 p, O8 {; [" k+ Ghis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
4 n2 ?7 r' }; Z3 z" {9 psay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
2 V2 z. ^5 y" l# R: ]was the name of the new paper.
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+ q" K* A& b0 r. sThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
6 ^7 @1 a9 x1 s9 d5 E5 n+ {severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
: g* v; X: e1 n7 Sfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
: U3 `5 y8 Q& k; qparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
/ ]" _0 |3 ~! {* B& L; {: i3 Ghave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
. j2 j; ~* q1 e) o2 m! W& f* ~who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to# G5 {6 d: N& x$ z3 Y# T
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs% U9 ~2 H1 x- V( \3 {: h
thus:
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:59 | 显示全部楼层
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
) ~6 x" c) c  U9 C6 B4 bis a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
6 d2 E+ c3 `" w, X: @; |4 E- Lcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'
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# s8 E8 w% t6 L  IA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a- L) F2 b0 q1 K8 H
bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of' r- x( s/ y0 c4 c) L
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one" t+ P/ u: d+ A* F6 m$ H5 j9 P& @
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.5 A% }2 l3 J! E0 B
Next morning it appeared as follows:% d& k, T) @3 H9 K- b
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
' ~' ?0 }8 f- b9 A"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
9 l. h1 h) v% R$ \# @+ q# ^tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his# H& d) I, v0 R9 o
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning
1 a/ p# r. x# T: d4 x! ?! Ynor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the1 E8 B5 B, O) q6 z3 x
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this' i, N" D! c9 B4 _. f1 v$ R
O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
  J; _. w; h# P* _; S  v' W8 [* lgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
- J2 g9 p* `' M/ q9 f8 C1 xis pitiful."'
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The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
; v+ X+ o# Y) |! WI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
3 @# [1 ^2 |) C3 Qhowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
" `9 Q4 Q) d4 X0 b" T+ bhis integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his9 g9 ^; N- c3 r0 u& S: x9 s- @
style that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
2 k$ |7 i* d% TBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
* ]6 a2 l' W6 t6 [! K0 \soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let; f( ?, n) `* \8 w6 k4 I2 o
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go6 z  m# V# n3 a7 }, K7 v
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that4 D; F/ A9 I$ v9 e# y
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
& N7 K' k8 {* S3 n6 V$ B  Nparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
5 s/ W5 X: j; a9 {$ ?2 J9 `5 Lshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --
; v  ~- l7 m2 B* d% K; s" zthat would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
* \- I' \: ^' a5 b1 vBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
' ]/ s% q% j7 E. [; g; Pcaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
* k2 H' w$ H- G# ~$ ~# QThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
4 _: w3 _6 T/ B) ]8 k  tcould be.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:33 编辑
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' N- V. F( y) qBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great  M- W" x* P) d& l3 k# x* a2 Z
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple& f. R9 i% R" m! q3 ?3 S) M
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:' P' r3 \( L9 R8 o

' `7 I3 U. ]- T5 X- t. Q  j'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of% e5 ^8 ?% h! ~8 l5 t
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in
4 `# a) m! |4 \8 ~tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he" Y! g3 t+ A6 Z4 |
(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards& a$ E5 X: x4 f; @
style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
; d8 L& E: _/ F8 g5 A* T! a6 asupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism. A8 Z# E5 X, ^. \& M5 h
of him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
) ?( c' u0 q* [9 j"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the
% j: c# A" C) P# {1 i! o3 K"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
. M& `( G0 w/ V+ nvowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the! l. O* R7 _% D" o3 U
hyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
" @" r9 q5 E/ c2 Q% \7 T- ^& \not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble2 K2 e7 h- K0 t5 W( n6 b/ w
servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than( r/ U/ e, c- y2 ]# J- u2 j
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
  s7 O' J! o4 Call entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go' t' ?7 f( h$ a) E( n+ T$ z9 W! W" ^
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that! H8 \8 V& n# j; m9 ?
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,9 s) q1 k" I2 K$ `4 q" c
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
% Z: A9 b2 E6 dmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
4 J3 h3 s! }6 C6 z( I% Nunparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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6 y& V- `  ^& O' Y3 A: N'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another7 f1 l) G1 |( D" m1 _
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're: N. T0 w% y0 @0 m; O3 o8 B
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old
1 R" y; G& G( |% Jwoods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!
6 J2 N; ~5 v4 EOh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,# p6 v9 R+ C& E/ ~5 P# ]* c. P5 W% s/ f
and don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,9 b9 z* {& w6 P
John, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an8 i+ |; ?% \! _1 i+ i, F
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,1 f; k- a6 v. N+ U/ c$ v# R
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a. z4 B9 s0 L5 ]3 z! M' i3 ^
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
' B1 G9 g0 H+ _crowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
: G1 H; ?. t" V" ]0 p( Sgrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
2 ]/ r- p( m/ |6 L* l& Wso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,2 I3 W+ w5 t6 x# M  _  ~7 m" m1 c/ U
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 great
. i3 V0 s, \) P! b6 t2 uTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to
5 S# j+ u" y, g0 y2 Nthe printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.
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0 q7 J( q# _8 ]: \0 I! WThe 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,' -- he0 K9 Y, u( h8 t. S1 u4 C
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 can9 R7 G& \/ p/ L0 g; t
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a
/ i1 K1 G: A& Aletter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single% O8 {( ~' b4 V
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the' u$ J: g) N- \/ o( {( t; u
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
3 o+ O* E: ]8 j7 _without no o's.'5 m/ L( v3 F! v9 ^7 i
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very. \( t5 ?2 r$ X2 [
angry at being kept from his bed so late.
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'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a
1 `. v0 ]6 H  Z% H3 _; hlittle one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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'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.'( M; q+ g" a" x' x: j
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning
1 g# c7 k2 j$ Mpurple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy
  p" g, G# V7 _5 ~) T-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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' L$ F; U" Y$ K'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
3 Q& b0 Q: N" pI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that  q7 {) p% V& p8 D2 z0 L
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
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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/ r0 z, H- @% Z/ w9 `2 P5 k'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,') u" [' n, R  Z0 o6 U9 H) e
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in; T  j' {, j% W# a. r! r1 T  p
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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
8 m+ V& R! G+ \' `* vcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
1 L9 D& X# t" J3 K) j4 ~$ S( \perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
: o1 p% u* D# c+ M6 S5 B/ Yeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as, \8 g  \9 G; l$ Z% t
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
8 ~1 J  J4 _- H/ f) u  Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of/ g, e" z8 p1 ?. j+ K4 `
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in1 d8 y' A2 Q% u, N6 J; Z# G- A
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the6 a1 u* A* u. T
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 w# b/ n- [. T
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter% K' X- H6 Z& }# j
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most+ |9 V6 S0 o7 {% R+ _, ^/ |
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
! {7 w+ _( Z9 g9 N& [$ G3 L% F  |times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an- k. L; R6 x8 w9 W
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it* T. ~5 z& ]  W- }" `
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
$ A- d! C% r! z) wthe 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
7 H+ b, G0 w; j1 x0 g' Vit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
& @, b& z% i; C' o3 b+ L) I. y' aparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press2 k) ?* l/ f9 `8 a' w! C( a
it went x-ed.
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  J! ^8 i- E( D" B5 U8 c0 fNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by4 c  z5 ]8 q' G
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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+ B4 c+ G/ N3 C: e! g/ D'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
7 E3 S1 |$ \$ Itime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
: j1 C9 q! Q; f" Vxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld) s: Z9 v* [, {3 @  s. m. F# C
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?+ h  Y( E0 W+ M
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at5 R$ y- [1 [. A3 m! B9 g3 c
xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
- J* w9 v: `, t5 V$ _0 z5 [  ]+ [- ~! UJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
2 E( o) A- x) U9 s5 ofxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld# V& q: q2 D* k1 ?; E4 @; w
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
$ s5 a# C% i& U; r$ J( ^8 KCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur7 c+ b' t' }- S
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
6 L+ d7 Z+ B; a1 \/ o7 g5 Ynxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
8 b( {; k5 L3 D% w% hyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut- y. q* E+ A4 r' c+ J  r
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is0 j5 ~5 R- b; @0 U! Y; G
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the% r) }& T5 z. C7 Z& X
populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
! Y" }6 S% r, n9 ~hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's7 ^- [) q" H* y+ K( k
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that1 K$ j  y. h+ v' y
gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell6 N: \  F7 J9 L, b7 T% w
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
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* H" W% U* }8 R; `( K$ T! ?Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
4 h  y* B  y0 F3 e; L% T$ B' M; |subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
) w" Y0 r! l# ~* K% I; Y8 uopinion about this unhappy affair.* W0 Y" N" \7 ]7 ]2 B  p7 k
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.. {  [8 H3 X( ?6 n0 }. ]7 @. L& U

+ h$ v  ]$ C0 Y: TAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of
2 m% p2 @7 L* _fancy.
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; B+ @# l4 H$ NA third admitted him X-entric, but no more.0 h0 p% d2 e7 D/ x8 ~  T6 S

4 C8 _4 Y4 ?, J3 ]5 h' IA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a3 Q1 G) q/ f  S
general way, his X-asperation.1 e  G' P4 F, F4 L# |. R# p3 [
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.2 w' j) n4 q$ q$ M# R
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
' w6 U$ h. v/ y; T, }0 ?% aand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some$ v. w8 l' y; m5 `) h) S
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,. t  E$ {7 K2 v; y. e9 N' f( S) Q
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician
8 z, {( B% l  J! {2 Vconfessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every./ g" _# o9 j( @6 a% L
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
8 t" [( a$ B- A; Tobserved), there was an unknown quantity of X.5 A2 V9 T8 P# l( \

9 j" O$ p: g) [( ^6 r2 {! ^* hThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
& f, H6 G# h% dthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
* B4 s- u* |; c6 a* Ydeserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
! a3 H& H) G, q2 b5 [1 a# |% ?He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,1 o3 Z! L9 T2 |
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
+ J% V0 I4 W) T/ m# Y% A  S' N2 W1 _persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually8 w, B: z. k- ~# T& z+ W! v
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral
7 I$ o1 N& J  M. K: ~: j% Hconsekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in9 _( s; |) O4 f: y: b
the X-treme.'
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