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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
6 f! x) x3 c0 c. u7 e/ Ncase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
3 H+ m. ^4 C! z8 d- `5 {perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
" }6 c$ |! U, z. ]) _' @: Q% jeyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as0 i: V; s# B: \6 ]/ d% {2 S
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but& n& ]& C, @) E8 m+ i0 P% n+ `, W
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of) e p( Y/ z6 V% d' d Z
fight, in a small way.6 A7 i6 Q9 W* \# q) G
( f) ^6 b% H. gThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in9 I m% S% P; r
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the' B; c* X3 A% a) M8 @
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
: E# p* g, H" J( k* I# |" kalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ n( p) e" X. X2 V) {& udeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
& L6 o/ {5 u' H' c9 Msuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
2 g5 R! O8 }$ S! gtimes -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% Z, N. ^7 r0 x6 a) o
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it( W; ]2 W2 O# v# {- o# [! X
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than4 U7 b( a8 E- C, \' ]/ f) G
the x to which he had been accustomed.- n7 h3 [. N" t0 d
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read& M6 b; K) o1 l* T3 t, J5 a( G
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy6 _7 U+ m/ b, J( W/ _ f
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press: y$ T0 \4 F; u. H1 ?# C. |/ k
it went x-ed.
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' \- X" [% w5 J+ a |1 f6 d- eNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
) m) W8 t d8 ^reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:1 U; q, k1 A& j2 h3 y) L7 l
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