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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
3 T5 k6 S: p- Y5 U9 [- H* wcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
& u: r3 A- ]+ F2 \% uperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
) e9 E. K. R3 k9 r6 F3 ~eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
& d9 d8 U7 `; Q. Y# Dis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
- |, O3 c8 h; ?6 p. y$ ~5 Jtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
: [/ _) J2 F2 e9 wfight, in a small way.3 s1 {& W/ ?+ c
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in4 h/ A$ J* I8 b# e. i' s9 h/ K
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the* d C, g6 ?8 H; b% U( ]9 k3 c
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 A: v* J$ C/ D3 S
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
* A1 g9 I$ [4 R& l; v, \deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most3 q; v5 G1 a* G' R: ?7 a! q
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
& u* g, _4 r1 u8 v! |) w- P/ Y1 Htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
% a i& |% G* n* Lhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 g6 e0 M. E+ m# v" E9 u% @7 }heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than+ U, J+ h3 ^/ Q
the x to which he had been accustomed.4 T( ?+ l; m! n: w- Y/ Z
7 i. o7 D1 E _+ y, r'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read% R. d. t J6 H6 \' X
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' h4 W+ s* x0 R, @' @0 I
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
' ^& J& G4 j, k+ r- f; G* @9 O, U/ Yit went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by5 {( \* f5 q! x t: Q/ J
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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