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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
7 _+ Q+ X# g$ E0 Bcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,+ k( z3 G+ o0 I, D' Y' i- r9 ]. B
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their5 R8 z, R: I6 K/ A; C( s
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
q, Z! \# i! R* Xis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 r3 O8 D {# Wtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of2 C( O* T- g/ A
fight, in a small way.9 V9 H- O/ r- w* a2 V
; D5 M$ c3 a/ |% |The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in4 _/ _2 N/ a; E
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
( h& F/ j$ C6 A0 Sfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost- ~6 W$ Y Z7 U* M* z- I8 e% I$ l
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
( T3 m/ U, m$ T; Z7 d$ b" ]& D$ `deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most0 O z0 C/ I/ C: e: j9 p
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old$ B/ b1 F% j' W) ]% }8 n
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
# k- G' b9 _6 qhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
7 y1 [7 O- K, a8 e1 x5 Yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
2 x4 [% e: {) G0 J, Pthe x to which he had been accustomed.4 G9 p; b% _& L! P! H& f
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
7 }+ L& p4 J- E; g! I' M; qit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
* s5 t/ l' x" {4 r) ^& H4 j- m+ Nparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 l9 {+ q' t# o& { X
it went x-ed., w8 M" |' m6 l6 F
& r/ V( \) X( ZNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! D) O, b$ R& @- j( P
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:' ~4 P$ O% r1 o# W8 ~
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther3 P" a) M/ o- t$ O. ?
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're0 h, M3 J: |% x$ R- J, b" e
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fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,. K' N0 W6 i9 c2 c9 P6 f7 }* u
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld7 O% O+ f+ Y0 B) [! M. W
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut! y/ f' x7 ~$ ^, z- q1 ]; A9 F
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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