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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his- L& u! ?3 d( Y- X8 p, Q# z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,$ k* e) M" {2 E. d
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 q8 o# A( K- H/ Z2 H) \3 Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as' O- R, P7 x O$ L) c3 `
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but$ s: u+ L& w! g' T
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 Q' E! R- ]: q+ ~0 g6 {. j" l+ j
fight, in a small way.. c; }; v! E$ g1 b9 e
6 \2 u/ {2 q3 ?: ?The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
) m1 s( l8 k; ]4 aprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the- b8 R% S" b. W4 \& w3 ^
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost& J1 u! x' d; T) v
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
, m; g/ K: @; W7 \) Ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 e$ z( Y+ I2 Y7 f: P
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
# ^! E7 t" M9 htimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an2 e2 F& D3 D: j
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 j" h. e8 }, b! O- |2 G2 e* E+ Aheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
" x, T; n/ `, a* P! y' f n( K: `the x to which he had been accustomed.6 z+ q# J- c: \: F0 A' }8 U
) H6 E( H& n! F4 Z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
) A6 f: G* g; @ K' f/ w' bit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! |3 I0 l/ j7 ?: e
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 U) r! ^, R. }: R
it went x-ed.
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) f a5 ^4 E! d# P8 `Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
' `" R$ W7 G: q0 \# H( Kreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:4 j; _: J& M6 b( E5 H0 w* j% u% o
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