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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe2 B  g( d' r/ s9 ]7 F' j) S: q0 h

' O) y* s2 J4 _一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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2 k- P* H; u1 o1 [' i2 e; F6 d% wAS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.' ?7 r- i/ N+ [7 B* c
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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5 v3 ], m/ A6 u1 |6 ~I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
1 O% Q2 }* z( H. M/ Amind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that1 Z& |  z) B# d( C2 {% b! M
no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular' O) g* e8 h8 [8 j) S2 Z( ?$ U
section of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
) _' c4 F, l7 r1 Z% [) Ihave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have' h" S# T) x1 k9 d! J
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
+ o9 k: j" s! r! w5 hhad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived2 i' n8 @2 h8 b
a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many* k5 {4 Q0 e9 y& ^5 w
years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the4 x$ N% \+ e0 x4 [) P( I
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on2 R6 W& C2 _) ?/ k* O6 L4 X
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found3 m2 C4 ~# c- J, D# E  z8 d
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he
9 a1 {/ F# m, q3 T5 T# {did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for8 F0 r5 A+ H+ j6 H& Q" @
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;
' w8 `8 V$ r0 r& She unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly
( o& d% R$ w, D/ k: o4 t: Q& ropposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after  W2 s% a3 D1 e( W
his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to
# R$ ?4 s0 a( S; {' l! d4 d- Xsay, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this
' U8 R* I' v4 R' ~was the name of the new paper.
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: W; j7 e. l8 z- K) u7 bThe leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say+ w  ?( T7 T; P8 x
severe. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as1 a3 d# u  M7 `9 j4 G" y0 U
for the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in  _1 `6 z5 m; L% D
particular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I
7 _8 A# E; a5 J" o" Chave always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,
( R9 r3 S3 |( X4 S$ B+ g1 D& i9 \who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to
4 b/ x2 I6 ~7 s. i# d: kgive all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs' k6 _; Y- @9 K/ a9 ?
thus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way
- i9 v/ E0 u3 `% M9 his a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
/ q- i" S( ~% r) `! lcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!'# L2 S6 T) B, \! E

. \( p- e. I. `$ Q; H0 f: AA philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
) s& t/ H0 w0 @: f5 K! ibombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of
9 K& L+ l! y) k& {0 T( b7 \excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one9 Y! _3 S, t: r, @. }" k
awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
* N4 b  n1 ]4 J5 Z0 ]Next morning it appeared as follows:
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'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:2 w0 b5 M5 i/ h( K$ j8 w/ m
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,  X  m" D9 f0 D  [9 O
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his0 S0 v( C2 R4 t! Z7 L5 ?
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning9 J7 S6 b+ a5 r
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the" @/ p! l! P9 e9 e* Y1 Q4 K0 J
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
5 X9 A( q- B- `  n( P0 _  ]O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
# r2 t- a2 u& K6 |  tgreat hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it9 K* V7 D( C  J
is pitiful."'% J( i1 e( F% h& z3 [6 k0 m- B

/ p% d5 V4 l- K4 vThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
3 u- C# e/ u: k8 ^) E2 aI shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
, c: J% j) w- c9 [) Lhowever, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
7 o- a, o: @/ o. Z/ W0 a) _his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
7 A4 G/ t& d) _0 \5 gstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go% q3 y+ a) ~( J7 r
Bullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
' h4 W4 C  X; \& J) Osoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let0 y( N& z, H9 v2 h& c& P
him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go
4 h' K/ b9 Z2 o, mBullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that8 n# g7 C, D8 w, |/ q2 e+ H/ l5 t
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole- W- T" x+ G/ i6 h* }
paragraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel
4 @0 V8 y) c- U9 k$ i  Z* N5 M& Gshould not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --3 h5 x. b- o  o3 p4 d, W: a: p! V
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,
/ s4 H. }" |6 a* gBullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
$ y3 P6 ~4 l/ f* ucaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
# h0 Z) V- ~6 [( D4 H) nThe O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
; a) [5 O2 z1 o! O, icould be.
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7 D( R1 P7 F/ x9 K  r  bBurning with the chivalry of this determination, the great
7 Q9 w7 u. o2 L$ j' |Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple6 k) b9 Y7 k% D, {3 `7 @. t
but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:. a% `0 J6 o5 V: R
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of+ L. i0 D+ n; @7 B3 @4 d
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in2 U* o# m: U3 q
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he
: x) w) Q" V+ r- F9 T# m7 y(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
, u8 C) n; }( K; N4 O& fstyle; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the
2 |8 V/ A% |* q9 _) I0 I6 o. `- h% z5 Dsupreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
6 _- U# _- ^; ?  X5 k  N! U0 Qof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
6 Z0 M# S* r' f2 m8 r6 I"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the: c3 P+ P6 K0 w- j5 i
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful3 R& b! X* u+ o4 @2 Q' P
vowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
. J- U  l) G8 ^* _6 D  Hhyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly% c, [4 x7 N$ K- _" r
not be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
8 Z! \/ _7 y  h9 |- Mservant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'
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  }. D, \; s; X) n4 C. _In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than
  o7 ?9 ?% S& W& M! u" Z: J+ Ydecidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
8 g; s( b0 O& h% l( p2 yall entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go; i% E0 O& t% c5 n5 o8 n
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that; Q2 W  q9 s, Z/ f* Y' R
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,  [3 |' j1 u. h4 \9 ]. @5 W$ I
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
: X) g1 A2 [# T& Kmidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really
5 @% N$ K/ j$ `, G, ]3 Funparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another3 E* G. t- o8 I5 m
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're7 R4 _8 B# Z) b- T+ b1 @
out? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old% S- Q9 O6 ^0 c) _
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!; Q: D, {& a0 i! H' W8 p' \$ q: g4 l
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
9 N: R% D' K1 T% p0 ?% a0 x- S# P- @% Iand don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
) Q' }. p# R$ r. l: \* r7 s' IJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an
% ]8 T; \1 X2 V# D: w3 P3 D6 yowl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,% i- L# `+ ?# k7 }& N) j, |
good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a$ l( `2 C+ e* Y9 f; \' a0 m7 M: S
Concord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
( u2 F, e1 m% A! Y3 n" ccrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor# l; g6 a: T) I2 J, r' c5 M
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you! l( V' R' a7 R: ^# e
so, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
( Y; }/ ~5 ~" m0 Kand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great0 T* B2 q, A  R5 O
Touch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to0 A; j# M/ b& N2 p8 k
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.& G' B0 I0 D2 g% L0 U
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The printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
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In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he: E! `) J0 m/ b! w- a" d$ p
looked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can
: d/ q2 E. i8 J  ^# Jdescribe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a" @8 T( ^, T  ~! u# J' k+ n
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single* g2 Y; m- n1 U* V
little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the- F! F! a0 t5 e
capital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing6 Z  Y$ K/ N9 k0 {2 o# D
without no o's.'
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very( s# y/ y! J$ d
angry at being kept from his bed so late.- i/ m" u( H1 r+ y

% V& d: m& F3 N3 o& n  {3 ?+ }; ['Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a! B9 J. R- n8 j- p
little one!'
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'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'# }  N+ W  U& [  Q5 i2 D( X

% M1 u/ I- a0 Y9 p3 x- Z  i4 |/ B'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning7 i- E( ?6 _: _7 }* Z
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy1 b' B* u. X! Y9 H9 l) s
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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! j) p) [+ ^+ C- _4 O& V/ r+ S) ^'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,$ Y* ]" q% A/ B: p. @6 N; D. f
I'll show them a thing or two; but what about that2 x& w  _0 E1 }' L) d- w' N3 @
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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: Q/ a, z8 S& Z0 S& \'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.') v6 K8 {- {* ^/ L8 O+ h2 ?
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'+ s7 ^2 p8 t+ q8 o9 `7 T
said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in4 I8 _2 G0 @% |  B
some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
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ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his4 ~5 R# {1 d, c
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 M* }, g4 |, tperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their& D* p2 R1 }! T" i& T
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
  W- e3 `) L; C2 G' Tis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but* b* v- j+ a3 j3 P2 m6 j* l
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" W1 v6 m2 l2 W$ B& Efight, in a small way.: x! n9 ]0 s& E) g

' D2 E/ K3 F8 O$ H4 P& QThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
& M5 ~0 e6 m, dprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the* ~' h- ?; C) z/ b! g: }
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
  P5 U2 R, x8 J9 h8 Valways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
, @9 l, R; i' d4 K+ _  l' rdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
6 o. z2 Q- e; j( V" J! s, D! ~superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 ^+ p1 j$ H3 B4 `
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
1 {0 V7 s; D! z7 D7 yhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 A" p  G5 P, k/ _, yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than+ S, {" |, N. L7 `! [- q
the x to which he had been accustomed.! k: K' I; d3 V3 f: i( p
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read. O4 M: `1 e+ Z' K9 r- W7 B+ {
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy# [; d( r/ t! L$ g
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
: L5 S- \, Q% {* Y- ]9 ^it went x-ed.
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6 l* e) ]  P% n4 {& \Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by% w' L1 Q" _9 a, p+ b( N
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther
+ I3 F6 |4 w7 ]+ Htime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're; D5 s  v) g- g% N0 L5 F. [" ~
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld( X7 P+ x/ Y  n+ c
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?+ i0 @- R% h. Y4 b; [  Q+ r  q
Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
, W" {5 b. N/ gxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,# U' n9 n) z; j9 E6 M
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a3 d1 i" w# v1 f7 U$ p; |
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld( v8 M6 T: f  O  k3 v2 r
gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a( {* [  j% j& |+ @; w- _
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur0 `# n/ j$ w4 K
crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,0 v0 S0 d  L0 H& @2 n% f7 V8 u
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld
0 Y' U: f+ }7 S8 W- X$ |+ f7 c+ ~/ V6 gyxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut' K# Q" M' i4 W7 D- w# Q% S5 H
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is
/ \( b" x3 T: e: V' A: o$ I/ cnot to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
' c9 ^2 J1 x# upopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the( ^7 z$ U# f: Z  n8 J; U% D
hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's
6 t" [6 O, q8 K4 a8 j6 `' Nresidence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
2 c# _% A  X' Rgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell
; _- t/ h- U1 n1 yhow; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.; s0 U, d0 E2 v8 v
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
& H* Y3 i$ J: K$ l$ nsubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of
$ Y* |0 O1 S# b5 H( G7 B( s- P2 Hopinion about this unhappy affair.1 u6 M& b7 p, N" i

7 P/ R& R3 P$ W' B1 AOne gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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* p1 d) G0 ^. R: QAnother said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of/ V) q" ^7 M& S; x; g2 g
fancy.
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.9 l+ @5 D8 }. v$ W' I: V4 A' I+ p

' K" G/ L2 }( p. w9 vA fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a
4 U* t0 _; _& dgeneral way, his X-asperation.2 o' V" E# g" b- N6 o; U. C
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.$ d" z/ `+ f, T& J9 ?: H

8 a/ T8 y9 }" ^7 `7 w: a; `That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;! L4 b% m* P( b1 B& M0 y9 z
and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some
4 l. Y. N3 O+ f6 T" Etalk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,& m1 X# }) Y8 d* A, }$ H' x
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician+ G* W2 U% m3 O7 J0 M
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.) {' z" j* `: C. \. Q
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
+ s' D5 Q! x" w" t/ Z( o& K) _observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.  T9 T* }' }6 I" M
& \) F! S2 a; y  h
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed
; h3 ?) i% @5 z2 wthe paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it
2 d4 U/ ]) r% A, F3 ideserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.# {0 @$ R0 |4 a/ S  A
He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,1 m& b+ M8 M6 m
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be
+ U0 o( `+ z! n2 S. p: I- ppersuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually  ^4 j) Q6 ]9 w
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral) m. Z- z6 n( ~7 o
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
+ ~" \1 M1 x- Nthe X-treme.'
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