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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his& X0 M8 [8 f2 R3 Y# d; h+ z
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
8 x7 r$ a! w( t. ]6 y6 e$ P0 ]6 n8 Eperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% |* ~$ M4 X1 P3 u2 ~0 ^eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. F! h! R: H( C7 S9 {* a
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but \ R! Y( T/ a; z7 G
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of- }! _7 w( j o5 m N' N$ e! ]
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in, u/ F' {) P, }( @
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
4 r+ ~* M5 v* B2 hfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
8 I0 Z. c$ o, D1 F' X0 X; P# @always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
* N" S+ ^! W2 u9 w9 ?: Q- r3 ]& r4 S# i- Qdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most2 N' }, }1 A& o$ w- c* J9 c Z
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 ]! r P1 a- v @: v
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an# b7 O- Y9 M- x
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
* W" h H% u( l+ b" dheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
3 O2 T+ z7 \7 p i. X& R: _the x to which he had been accustomed.! S; l `. a/ l
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read4 |5 _1 V+ w% g2 S
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' x4 W" q! Z, u* X
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 b j5 |8 V+ ^ ]2 f
it went x-ed.4 \* y# L1 [1 `1 z" Z
$ I+ e+ e+ t! ?0 nNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by0 r' l7 y1 E/ }0 f* V3 }& b
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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' G* x: E- u- R- m7 Yxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
* ]* H& J6 y( P4 D9 tJxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a: X0 l) H( ~6 W$ S8 ^
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crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut, O G/ |3 ` S! q) [% M
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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