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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
- m6 d5 f; @2 H4 _. S9 O' U* ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,6 {& D6 M1 R% q/ D
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
* ^. o2 N f1 y' e: x( Leyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as+ i) ~& n* `: N t) J" t& ^8 f
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
( z- k) I Z, q/ E- ?# mtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of) {9 |, v, _8 W3 |
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in# ^) ?3 r+ `( j# r! w
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
* V* E' l3 ^+ f7 @fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" T. D+ l6 Z" s0 w% d K$ g
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter+ h# R! c. b4 B1 y- t& ^( ]1 b5 v
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" f3 L( G: |) E+ I; C
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
7 `9 ?+ g1 f1 |" @6 U! ~( f( Ltimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an; G9 `7 A6 n/ ]$ `% x! l
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
0 l8 l4 |; ^/ R3 f: k3 I/ F, b wheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
6 M& k7 U {* Ythe x to which he had been accustomed.& x p) X/ M) u+ K
% @2 K/ l8 U! F0 h- |7 o'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read9 N7 f+ o+ X h1 a; p# C! f$ g0 J
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy0 z8 J" x+ ]2 r- E2 X# \% m
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 g, K4 m0 h( d9 o! U7 q
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" Q# f* u+ s: t& c8 p+ j! Wreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:2 h( i8 u8 h1 t0 F, E3 J; U
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