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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his+ | G7 D# O4 b8 Y# U# S0 ~
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& z, U( W3 V0 {perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
( u6 P, O, I: U& A$ C2 meyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
2 s- i! a2 Q/ @2 ]is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
$ X8 v1 m# i* I* I& wtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
9 Q0 w" j4 O% i2 n$ n4 n$ ofight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in; {7 C' X+ L6 n( V7 Q3 {# J
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the; u) }- G2 @7 T7 K5 x
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost: m. Y& J( [& k8 c+ S k
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter6 c; M& W' y+ t2 L" H2 _" h: M
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most4 ]2 ]) T) g# n/ T( m5 s( D$ o( [
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
. a* i8 M s5 T V2 b( |6 Ctimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
- Y+ ?% n& P% k5 v& N- V8 Y6 yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
& x, g1 W; n( V6 Wheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 f8 e k# w$ m* D) ]8 h1 X
the x to which he had been accustomed.4 d+ ^: _1 F2 D* l% P9 a+ l
* K+ D: [ g& Y' E9 @! {2 |'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
/ ~6 v" f1 s' W9 ?5 b6 n8 hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
6 y1 j" N# {/ d) i+ {6 O5 P. V. `paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
9 N: M; F4 x: m% [; Nit went x-ed./ g+ R. l& C3 G8 y0 W, Q
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by3 Z$ V! c$ Z" H1 g
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:( `# f7 E4 S6 Z7 L. r2 A; I
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3 B7 U) T; e9 c( X% K2 F4 \crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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