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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
) S6 {; [" p9 }. M! {case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,2 D, E: @# V8 @
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their# X0 x$ G" `. T! i* D
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as4 \1 O) l x5 u' `
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
2 f8 h+ @7 I3 {3 S8 a+ b" u7 Itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! ]9 ~' t( q* Q# w5 T
fight, in a small way.
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! f( w+ N* \0 A5 m1 u- }5 A- zThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in% x* A6 N( u7 j* B! G
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
: J& e: n$ A$ d% Z9 [6 afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
( }2 @8 s: \& e+ U' W4 V" m Zalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
% Y6 q3 n( s+ a1 cdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
4 P& G9 ^ f( Z4 {' I& y, u' `2 m' Wsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, s3 |8 l) Q2 etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
" ^& _7 [& ~) D; @habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it: y; j: Y) u2 G$ z- S- T( ~
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" M5 o1 X% B% a) T$ ^- [the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read" L, _' r" T. U9 V# R; ?5 P
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy% F% Z7 }% ?9 n0 W0 G' o0 ^
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
6 i2 G2 L3 Q6 Q; Q' Iit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; M& A7 }! z( u* D. zreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* N' b/ d# x7 d! x3 E2 {
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