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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
4 n9 M' e5 J! _, h, \. A5 P& Y Ocase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
/ x& n) G/ |4 J. l. g4 m1 sperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their+ A$ G' I6 ~: n/ P' y F) Q: ~
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
4 p/ o k" J: q' R( e* K7 v" }is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but5 |5 v3 f; O. g6 p& {$ j, h9 W6 }
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of6 X8 g- j0 d$ E5 X% Z4 I# H/ n
fight, in a small way.
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( ?' W% \* l; \5 S7 Z7 W3 OThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
. b& C$ \; p# n* I& l6 k, fprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
" e" [9 \' m3 j x$ v" ]fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost, V4 w2 A& R0 O3 j m: V
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
$ r2 X" h# [) ldeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most0 f. t. J- s/ t7 u# D+ T# S
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old4 C8 \. X6 g* t' o" o5 o, t2 g
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
- [6 |, |4 h; K" T0 o. R5 m$ w% Xhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it- \9 {' Y, \) x; g. Z8 i6 r: z
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than. n* U1 _& Q: d) U* H0 m. N' }
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 read8 V& l8 M0 B7 S1 l
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy" m0 j: \: V. D9 H1 e3 ]9 q
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 i1 ^0 W+ M4 {it went x-ed.. Z A& I3 X( R) L( ~! j& [; o
$ C9 H4 n/ r, i6 V; {& DNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
1 V# P$ c( |* U& M* y! Greading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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