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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his* K7 }. \& D& o$ w4 [6 l: Q3 u: v8 s! b
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,+ X2 K! n2 ?& k6 g
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their. ^; [9 i8 w& M& ^
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as# Q) X/ Q. w' f# r7 _& G5 {) C
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but" m% j# m, a6 R! s
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
" L: ?/ s0 ]; y' x& L) \fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in% L# S0 @, J3 g6 m2 P4 t% O2 z
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
: `' ?$ W# ]- U; J4 Xfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
, \! U3 y% z5 J8 e0 qalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
8 c3 s; Y$ X& \ x$ Gdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most, y7 o' U) O2 E0 \
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old9 j, c+ B' i0 Y5 o) Z" w
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an& x% C& x0 a* N: W1 F; Z! b! U2 ]
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 Z4 E d5 w$ |+ c% kheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than* O# X0 v" a$ g3 f/ @
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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& c! h% r" g5 G f q# k. m'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
$ ]1 c O8 P$ S. Y- hit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy; b/ {' A2 }& \
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press' k( v4 _# i# z! S2 t, A h9 O
it went x-ed.9 A8 Q% h8 F5 O2 q: {% {
6 _' e4 j( f! _+ _( y5 BNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by, D U: d0 l! m
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther1 a( a. o9 l/ c/ W4 m. W2 H
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're: d* l* X! A4 b6 j J6 J
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld+ p' p* _1 }6 ?) j9 {
wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
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8 H' r% w- D* ?6 ] a1 hxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,# m* `: Y% N0 O" j) U) C4 a1 o# J4 ]
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
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Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
- N) |- H! I# r) x) p r- Pcrxwing, 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
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