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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
8 ~8 I0 i; Q. {' T C. gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, j- @5 _+ q% Z! `2 z+ |8 P
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' J1 A& V7 u, a9 b! Neyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
3 U# H7 M* o" I3 p2 Kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
6 j! G8 q/ I2 f1 etwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
8 r3 V! D5 [2 I& F, L6 P) h$ Y W4 Qfight, in a small way., k1 d7 z2 j' v) R1 R T
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in+ C! `% D2 Y. c1 l& x6 d+ W
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the! n' h3 l2 D" L) S, Z2 r* ?
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 C8 r* K% P& ?# d, v7 ]always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
9 u* e' n3 `! Y( Adeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 m1 [, p& B# v4 Hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old0 @- _" U0 G% N, S
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an) H) I6 @7 v, ~
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
- X8 l8 h, C& n2 K5 U' Oheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
2 X7 d4 _5 [1 ]8 [& a4 k/ ~7 w6 s8 Tthe x to which he had been accustomed.. I `5 d1 z9 E1 Z
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
/ V% S/ b* O t5 G: S' Hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy9 A. ?1 R6 u* l7 P8 W
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
! a) F( L7 I* B) F7 Mit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! S; w% f6 z- x" T4 Y: i
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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