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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his2 l6 r4 S$ L6 u: `- R
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 |) R! O* Y1 S9 v: I* I: aperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their6 v0 n5 ~1 ~# k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# Z) ]7 {- x% o7 q* n2 N' W( q
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
. U+ c; B2 Q3 Htwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of1 ]; G' v8 A6 l) K& z) o
fight, in a small way.
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4 M+ C8 ?1 S9 S- R. Q3 lThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
4 Z/ A+ w. |- t/ M A. S# aprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
/ x% y9 V4 k3 T- Z1 z7 i: g) tfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
* O6 d/ C# u0 p! P5 s" n* galways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter8 e7 d( d* f, c: O( B$ r5 r( ~
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most2 T' u$ j$ s* Q8 L4 g2 F: o& I% i' v
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- J Q* S6 f6 `0 w* F" c
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an$ p) @: q2 s8 O3 B" l
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
$ f! J0 {+ m4 `0 V1 O+ _heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( m: p. X2 V' h! K1 S( ]1 ]the x to which he had been accustomed.8 r4 ~# Q, p. Y
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
' a$ t: M& {" `it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
7 P3 j' C7 s! O$ I8 Jparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press7 [; u8 y; K5 n: @ e, p& D. V* y
it went x-ed.
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) P" t Y) ^( \/ QNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
+ Y" s5 Z# L( C% q* H/ u n: Y8 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
$ \& x/ L6 o3 j7 _time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
8 E" m+ F2 h% C+ U# ~9 Fxut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
3 p4 ?- I, M9 @. o1 Bwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,- B/ e, V8 ~. I+ M( `
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a( t8 J& m0 [1 ]8 z1 O4 r
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld1 M$ N% m6 Z# \2 O0 |$ {* S
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a
' Z' _. Z+ }4 L" g5 P/ uCxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
, d4 |, j$ G& G. ^' I7 c' {crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
- P" \1 m( r4 _/ D6 d: M- snxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
; }7 G& [4 s; g6 Wyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
6 ^4 p. V1 s5 h4 P% T6 t1 Wsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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