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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
9 U+ T1 g: M c1 L' Gcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,$ ~4 ]! x1 N V3 a5 C* M
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
, R+ S" d3 j/ O2 t6 e" reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# b6 f! T" d8 w- @; D& B7 V
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but$ {" \% {% P% N; B* K
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 F4 N3 u* Z& \! E: Q
fight, in a small way.! X, d! s7 b5 i5 {# y8 U
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in7 i9 M9 A# R# B; f' X: \2 \' X) Y" q' Y
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
, F' B/ a# u- e$ i& Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost1 N) O* Y) L/ _& E# o! H0 J
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter6 L3 Y: T" A$ N# C
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 R1 O# A: Q. B9 B
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
1 N+ O* Y1 k y7 I# v+ A ntimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
# d( O5 s3 s& t I9 _3 j# a; Bhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 x8 t) ^; C5 w7 t _0 s6 C: U" w- r. y- Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
- b4 J2 w* M* lthe x to which he had been accustomed.5 f ~5 M' G$ e; s Q
' m" x0 _6 D: J8 Y p5 O'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
! ?, F' U- [0 B$ @( z8 G) m `$ m. Qit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy5 T1 U0 M; r0 k6 v7 k
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by6 ~7 e( U* r4 p0 v! M0 S! c
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:/ x5 a% d# t6 ~% L
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/ u0 T) x6 |2 h$ p! K& |6 e& _3 Mnxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld# B) b( @2 i a% }
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