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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his' c& l' D* [) m
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,$ \' c: k6 x, s" \6 ^* P
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
5 C8 c( T7 R3 K7 j9 Reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
: w% Z' a1 A3 i# _is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but& i8 o. O+ x- y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of& u* ]! e9 V& `. j4 a9 W4 b
fight, in a small way.
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# _4 W( L J: e* OThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in# R. \+ Z9 F2 }0 p
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the4 a: ^+ f: m, c% |; W% ?* j* F* N
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 R5 S% y7 I" ?: J7 Ialways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter) N( i. `! |! }0 I5 G; o8 z" {! c2 ^' h
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
# F8 ]+ J( D) Y& @; z% }superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old6 ^0 a* ~5 J9 Z$ ?0 @2 P3 s- l4 Z
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
I/ U4 x) I7 j" Ahabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it1 Z, ^( r) |7 r5 {/ \0 X$ ^' t: J
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
! T& i) U3 ? ^) q: Xthe x to which he had been accustomed., h( l y8 C( ]% D" B
8 G5 w9 F) e) K'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read8 v: Z; e, m! y( X3 I
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- J4 S: I% n. P d/ lparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press2 ^% P4 f- K( w6 |5 v% K
it went x-ed.7 ], ~5 w2 E6 r8 ^; t- |0 w
3 `: t! i9 P7 ?6 {Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by( p7 w+ g) k! S6 {) j' p
reading 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
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fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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