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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his c% |7 h. q! L
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,1 z' B C5 q) W* ~1 n# z% g1 L
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. L5 P" v# s2 d& t
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as; ]( F. m! Q! {
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but# F6 X7 f/ K$ S, A
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of8 \( c( b1 t6 b, X
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in7 C$ o8 U6 d4 p1 o+ M
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
\( U) }" |% A8 K& q1 b% {$ sfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
" d3 e6 _: k; V4 f x$ l2 calways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
( K7 P* w) K1 e6 t; q3 ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
$ Y# ?( X4 `' p; T, Hsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
: u: k+ r4 |' v0 dtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
6 V2 h% h4 i! r" Q7 Shabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it1 R3 \2 y6 D: \3 l2 i( t
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than, N+ }4 I7 f7 C$ u5 e& a. K8 D
the x to which he had been accustomed.9 Q' h/ ~, ~3 P9 H5 Y
6 X$ i C6 }) C: f$ G& y'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ R O& v4 r: X7 p- d2 Cit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy- t5 Q1 z6 M' B# s+ a9 D w
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
& C2 G1 ^5 x% P+ w! R9 k0 @5 O3 B* nit went x-ed.
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( P, F! ?% p" U! LNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
8 k8 N0 s. G% ~4 A% Z2 Preading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:$ k! f5 I0 N( Q$ W
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