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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his4 R; n. e' ^6 u( Y
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
; q M6 i; _* V( x( C% Eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their4 p2 x" C* L( n W m
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as1 _& T( s {! a: H/ c/ ~
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
7 g$ J7 |) l X/ A! g K, R+ Qtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of2 _% [5 _* u. b1 {
fight, in a small way. y5 k' z4 S$ X1 B
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
/ n: k; ^+ t8 y Mprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the4 ? ~$ L/ h+ j# U1 ]5 q. i
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost5 J5 a* G7 o( k# | Q6 n
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter2 j" b2 o7 `7 h2 n: Y$ a5 V: t
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most( e" Y: S5 w) K: Y
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
. c& Z m5 P/ K$ c& ~" p$ etimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an9 m4 z; m4 ^2 t# b, i
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
3 o+ Z* e& Y, o9 {heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than" v! p4 y v3 p* o3 K
the x to which he had been accustomed.( q. J' e+ E" S3 O1 H) I5 E
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read1 \' n1 ^. Z) n6 S5 g' S
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
1 V1 [$ R* \3 ?7 n. _paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% N; ~! w' @ ?% v, j/ j2 O0 Q
it went x-ed.' ^6 G5 |; M7 {; `* d ]
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; [7 u G2 ~8 f# ?/ Wreading 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) H2 G! \& E P5 A) v: N! J7 g
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're% {$ _5 c, l1 c$ E( y" A
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,( D& e$ v( X# x9 L
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a# D0 a* }( N7 s+ u2 @
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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9 v* R( N/ A( t" Mcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,( L- V$ F) _/ w( H
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld) X9 d0 K8 I, }- p' w+ Q
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
: C& Y* h8 p. U! @sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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