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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his0 Z F a$ x' d% p
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,& j8 a6 T- T0 ~/ _, G
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
1 `6 ]5 b5 G# ^eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as" c* x9 t- J7 D' @" [8 k) p& B' t& }
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
& e6 \+ g6 x9 V7 N" p# Ttwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
3 F' J3 P9 e% ]: \" }6 m; qfight, in a small way.+ R; U5 I% p* w7 H* r' d
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
k. O& v' A8 {6 Y4 @printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the8 i A. x: p: \
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost$ W; Y8 g, {, Q0 ^- w" Y7 v
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter7 `' w4 _0 @3 z+ A1 E
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
- g1 O* U8 F: O4 ?2 hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
* }0 S+ F( z5 n; U6 m) ^8 c! S3 Htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
0 Y8 S9 N+ X. rhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it/ `4 q& H1 e. A! B% e
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 \+ |! i# P7 @& g U+ w; W3 V0 R' T
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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w- ]+ b0 a ~( T; j3 S'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
9 N) F) L8 g+ A( W R7 wit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
! s" W+ V$ c. g0 ]( l% Qparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
# ^7 q4 t& u; y8 Tit went x-ed.& J0 y5 V4 W) t, E+ d: I
, A( \& H y' E) L7 x$ @& r* INext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
" y6 n) I( ]1 C" V/ {' ?4 n4 Kreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* B* q! i8 L3 @1 \- H+ j
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