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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his$ W# Z. F5 j: g/ ?9 P
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,2 c% ]( Q- k1 \/ W6 Y/ ?
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their) F, u1 H0 W. w
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
/ o% B3 {3 D; U! q( X yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 C2 y/ H2 s3 y# z( w+ v0 Ytwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" B% `: J8 |8 r# K( ^fight, in a small way.
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: }" i( q* t& X9 x; v$ I1 jThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
, S F% u( d( o9 jprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
) T; z1 I3 o' u- N- i7 ufact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost% x0 [+ e; _; ]+ P$ D
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
) q8 b/ P3 _! E5 {1 kdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
1 m2 L0 y3 ~& ?8 R" X) C' W9 Asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 J3 s" D7 R* } d
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an) x" }7 Q v. n1 D9 ^# j+ n
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
% h& D/ } j! zheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' S9 u8 V) N/ z8 u2 Z3 r
the 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 u; ^ j5 @, Y7 R' b% ]
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
8 w; G% F) N: k; A& T1 Sparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 \5 H( m# |* Y7 K4 g
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by2 b7 k& T" m+ Z8 b7 [1 j8 e
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:' U; R) S, H( C+ G, ~
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xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld4 U3 F3 y4 o% ]6 W
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+ v- u6 n6 y( Z8 ^" {6 fxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,- r% F/ g" r# N' G) q
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
5 j( e3 R- R+ |! `& [% ^nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld, _$ F- q: O) n9 Q
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut0 @' _8 u) q) }. Z. A
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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