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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
! g& R) Y1 |* R$ [) gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
$ l0 {! U! n+ U6 ?* vperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
8 P2 x; s" ~0 T' W; Deyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as& s1 ]0 Y/ @# T. y/ J# B2 f9 t# L
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but3 \, u2 o5 H8 Y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
) [; C, V9 E7 l- }' d6 i/ Efight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ K9 U, s& w9 U9 ` _3 j" z
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
, Z. b" @. e/ a: U8 w0 _. Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost" p1 g, o- T8 l1 b$ y9 z! B
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
( L4 F- j' `7 E9 ?, xdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
% g+ B/ [" M/ isuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
, M+ m ]* ~/ l, {3 {; ?' ]0 qtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an& |" M7 r5 _9 T6 S; Q( W
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
" p) q0 _1 m! D8 dheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, v' B5 s+ e" G9 {+ g: j
the x to which he had been accustomed.4 P# q' A: X9 ~8 U& M" G
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read7 T2 |& t5 x# ~
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' h4 d; ]% D0 s: W
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press6 R s2 T% X0 C' X& T: P( ?
it went x-ed./ w! u; R7 T$ N0 u9 w' _
# m0 g: d7 i5 w: VNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; K& o$ m/ W) t4 i" e# Jreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:! g' l- o$ ]' w0 W
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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