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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
1 S/ f/ v3 T4 icase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,6 c# X$ o- c a1 q5 L
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their0 }7 g7 g2 [" `: ?
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
9 O) p+ G5 m' g0 u% S$ kis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
J4 r- h% b: z5 P8 Y; Jtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 s( b Q! [6 R6 q- Y; G) i
fight, in a small way.* o$ Q8 [8 z4 r
% H% V8 o; K2 _: ?The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
; Y& F& F5 D6 dprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
& \! H5 p% `' S7 L: mfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
/ t3 f( A. {5 t8 palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter1 B8 V2 w+ _- s* I
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
; q: B% f) x4 jsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
$ |4 K. X6 Y2 q4 Z, l% ~& atimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an5 f' o7 x' w* V( [6 P C
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
& v& q. I/ f' N/ G# V$ `/ t5 Uheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than/ M7 m" @2 m$ b/ k3 G. Y/ |2 o
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read' L5 Y( t$ a4 V' {5 u# K/ y
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! }7 Z! b/ Q% `3 L
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press8 X8 q, I8 w8 Y& e) T3 D
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by- t: \# b2 g# c, H7 }; q
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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