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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his# I' X$ v$ B0 s: z/ M
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
7 I0 S& C( F4 o* M4 C& W- _+ tperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
- c3 [+ q3 S. |' w8 W; [9 Ceyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. Z/ q. n* B) a: e! Q/ @% @
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but5 S, ^ [0 \+ E9 y5 B& r$ ? [4 {
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
$ J; J$ |2 Z5 U. Z9 Efight, in a small way.
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/ M% {1 J$ k, i8 Y7 TThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in/ R) {8 V5 p6 E) _; W; ~% n1 N
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the0 [: h$ Q+ b; @$ {, _
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
/ X! M& _2 u' v' k+ oalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
, s9 ^+ g( v# x8 Pdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ v4 I: [! C, k4 Z" bsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
! s+ X5 n! x F+ f4 Ktimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
1 k6 c3 H8 A$ z0 @, m) Thabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it) N) g/ `7 ]( j. ?8 |
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% F. _: m9 z' B- v: R. M) @
the x to which he had been accustomed.' A5 M3 ?1 B& f- }
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read; ]7 V2 @$ r9 x* H5 O. T
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 Z6 z, ^5 I6 t/ y( J$ t
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press, R; T3 _* z; B: B
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by; o7 T, }- S6 t) i7 d$ G8 b. u
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:# a* K; x" o! C$ S( ?( o0 Y
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