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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his+ |: ~- x5 r$ t. w5 ?1 e
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, L" Y% h0 Z! E, A' l# [
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" y% g; ?8 O' @4 I4 P; k/ Oeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
* ^- [" C6 P9 d& nis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
# s: D/ k3 V" d; F" ktwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of( `: p) S7 ?/ i+ W
fight, in a small way.
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4 o6 [3 k' P& G9 ^9 ^9 I3 ^( eThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
% @8 E$ Z1 d1 ]: O2 gprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the& b6 X# C1 D8 U8 ]1 o$ R Q
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 v7 l% ^) Q# t+ y# z& v, q! B% malways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
8 Y3 c+ a2 L2 u" f* [deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most: b7 D3 V- P( I, P6 F" o' f) S
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old% c' x3 C9 X- O8 K" a5 h+ ]+ X
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
- }5 Q: o( V! p" U$ R# D! whabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it; m3 l! O1 Q+ L* R0 F
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than3 j) `: M/ A& |
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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; o1 {! A m& b1 l' B! y i'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
+ F7 v5 L" l" S- K( fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
/ W# E( V: t6 G( [% G3 B4 ]; Fparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
2 R( n" j, m# [7 d7 O3 {4 vit went x-ed.* J- n" }# o+ `0 H$ a' a
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
/ Q3 U% S0 s9 E' greading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:, L4 p3 Z- _+ M: l2 @
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