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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his9 E7 H9 }; g# Q5 B _9 q- z4 r; I
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,5 S! V k! W( l& W6 t$ q! l
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their) d" u N) Z# S) U" C8 g
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
h2 O/ u/ K' Xis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
/ g& l# u+ T6 U+ A& [1 {twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 d/ B9 g8 B1 Pfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in. }' C; {* |* m9 O1 i
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the: _) G" E7 J- @, I( q0 K
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost+ {. _) f; E H9 Z4 d2 y6 c
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter- u" e& h; ~) C! }+ R, I1 m u
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
, z3 J8 q4 _8 }2 C0 H. K' x! {superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" _3 h3 z: ~9 B7 a3 \8 F6 l o9 A& b! ytimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
0 B/ _( p* G( O$ E( ahabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
5 ^# C* a/ d9 K1 }heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
& _4 Y- p1 e. ], ithe x to which he had been accustomed.
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0 \. u1 n/ V2 H5 i9 p6 r# L'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
2 ^# h" W+ U/ r) _# Mit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# R& j0 i1 z( M* |
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! i+ }: Z3 k _3 C, uit went x-ed.
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: n! S8 c9 `% c& N5 uNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by G* n. r7 x( v, R! I0 ~% K" J
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:7 t. K0 l/ w4 m. c9 e! ?
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