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发表于 2009-7-27 21:35 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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X-ing a Paragraph—————Edgar AllanPoe
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0 |8 C% |9 J# X  |% i! H一篇著名的小小说,很funny。盼望和能读下来的大侠求教一个问题:Who is the chief or Printer‘s boy's master?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 22:45 编辑
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2 f8 t8 Z1 D$ P  K7 `# L- }2 k7 @AS it is well known that the 'wise men' in the Bible came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East,  Mr. Bullet-head was therefore a wise man; and if further proof of the matter is  needed, here we have it- Mr. B. was an editor. A bad temper was his only weakness; he did not consider  his inablility ever to changer his mind a weakness. It was, his firmly believed, his strong point.  I6 G% b3 n, }* J4 u
   I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he was not wise was when, leaving the proper home for all wise men, the East, he moved to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
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本帖最后由 rainbowfish 于 2009-7-27 23:29 编辑
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% ~) s- E" k0 [" HI must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his
8 ~& }! O# `# Q0 T7 {mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that
  [) c" R( k" W; x; _2 W3 qno newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular
$ f% E9 A+ p8 K  O3 A$ Ysection of the country. In establishing 'The Tea-Pot' he expected to
* P- ]6 V4 G9 O5 U4 phave the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have; ?/ L# ~6 f  W2 ~' [8 t2 D
dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis
: k0 f; D7 v! l4 x$ A) O' shad he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived
( q, C1 L* w" V. P; ^) T5 oa gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who for many
0 t1 _" I. T3 |' r4 }years had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the6 |1 d( J; g! u; y
'Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Daily News.' It was solely, therefore, on5 A) c8 o6 }1 |9 c
account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found0 }) k# \- F( D$ ^" `
himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' -- but, as he3 u! b) e+ b& {
did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for, r$ h! x8 `- j
obst -- for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more;: N4 c$ l% F& V8 b1 g4 J% C, F
he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly* `' K: @5 G+ L! A6 v
opposite to that of the 'Daily News,' and, on the third morning after
& e% m4 J9 C; U; f0 Nhis arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' -- that is to9 y; d& q; D" E' s; W
say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' -- as nearly as I can recollect, this# g8 Z: k) M% q& k# i1 \
was the name of the new paper.6 N  j+ F: [) {1 K; {- _7 }" x
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The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant -- not to say
7 P# x* e2 w& Q6 }3 Msevere. It was especially bitter about things in general -- and as
0 ^9 M4 b! T4 ~. M4 bfor the editor of 'The Daily News,' he was torn all to pieces in
- q6 J# B0 k9 ?. k  dparticular. Some of Bullethead's remarks were really so fiery that I% C  X* o" b( {# L/ s5 F9 @
have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith,3 O0 F% o; f* T' U! ]0 U* k
who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to2 T8 k4 H% {6 n
give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs
# v! u! |! N, M) `# x$ ythus:
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'Oh, yes! -- Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way2 @' S$ A, s1 g3 g* O
is a genius -- O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! -- what is this world
# E. F, B  \" ?/ a( y$ e1 Lcoming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!': c3 Y9 ~- Q% {8 n
& w$ Q1 j, e9 l: S. M& M
A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a
8 @8 b! |7 d% R7 \) F6 ~bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of! U& E" N  p9 R0 W# Y2 V
excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one
5 N; C! \8 _/ p5 `1 u$ l0 l7 Hawaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith.
% g( V& u% |  ^: w/ KNext morning it appeared as follows:
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6 G" W2 @7 v& t' p! u8 P/ _" I2 z'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:; ?  k  P) B; U* H( A0 k
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,7 K1 B8 c' d7 ]9 |# C1 |( V
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
1 W# y4 J& s5 j$ Xreasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning. o) t3 a) ?5 i4 p3 a
nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
8 ~- i2 n% N. b- y! lvagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this
0 f+ |# G% j2 O8 ^O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a
1 k. D% d1 _# [great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it
. a* t+ S/ v8 i- sis pitiful."'
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! h( L7 k* y. s& o; wThe indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,$ |( k3 O# q8 G* V: l  V- R" u' M) ?$ ]
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,  B- n8 |) c( `* _
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon
# o5 l  i5 R6 rhis integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his
* ?5 }) ~: q9 o# D3 y* P* w7 dstyle that drove him to desperation. What! -- he Touch-and-go
' I8 j( n; S0 w4 J; u! \6 YBullet-head! -- not able to write a word without an O in it! He would
. M2 ~0 s; M2 z1 s$ ]" gsoon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let
( h6 r+ T+ I$ \6 W) Uhim see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go2 Z7 s! Y0 I) f
Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that' y" e. B9 `7 T
he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole
. V1 O8 n6 k3 Rparagraph -- aye! a whole article -- in which that contemptible vowel( ]1 R, i- J- B7 `4 f
should not once -- not even once -- make its appearance. But no; --+ _8 }9 z' p! p. \0 b
that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He,- |! G" w3 B  X. Q# F( v4 h9 Z
Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the
5 `8 C* o' W+ ^& ]) {: Scaprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought!
  s* z9 w/ C% G0 R2 G0 ]1 y. n0 _The O forever; He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy
' J+ F" C/ J/ g/ k$ t. lcould be.
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! w) {& x4 W( `Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great; r4 A( c3 _) q
Touch-and-go, in the next 'Tea-Pot,' came out merely with this simple
+ ]1 w+ q5 G& L( n1 ]but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
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'The editor of the "Tea-Pot" has the honor of advising the editor of7 {/ @) C) z/ t
the "Gazette" that he (the "Tea-Pot") will take an opportunity in! ^* F6 O( Q  }  q) F+ m2 Z
tomorrow morning's paper, of convincing him (the "Daily News") that he3 {& z$ q- F1 O' w, W' l
(the "Tea-Pot") both can and will be his own master, as regards
0 T' I3 Y2 P9 P, k+ \: F1 \style; he (the "Tea-Pot") intending to show him (the "Daily News") the( |, m+ m% o; ]: f
supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism
8 t  N5 ~) {* w. I: Dof him (the "Daily News") inspires the independent bosom of him (the
1 `! X/ f  F1 v"TeaPot") by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him (the3 ?' ]! \! d+ O
"Daily News") a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful
$ y: y1 Q8 M$ d/ kvowel -- the emblem of Eternity -- yet so offensive to the
# {6 ~. O, P+ P+ T* ihyper-exquisite delicacy of him (the "Daily News") shall most certainly
+ m; O/ o8 U5 znot be avoided by his (the "Daily News") most obedient, humble
0 V/ ^+ e! h4 o! r$ C( M$ C9 {servant, the "Tea-Pot." "So much for Buckingham!"'+ B7 O* c$ |2 b2 c7 e2 L& {

( L6 ~( }5 O- v6 F# A- h3 PIn fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than' ~$ }% w/ Z1 M: d1 D5 O; R
decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to
/ l& [/ v6 u* A1 L6 C. Iall entreaties for 'copy,' and simply requesting his foreman to 'go6 P% j1 r$ u: d0 L$ ]& w
to the d-l,' when he (the foreman) assured him (the 'Tea-Pot'!) that) r4 s! d: V4 b) ]5 U
it was high time to 'go to press': turning a deaf ear to everything,  }8 Z; F! q" }, O; Q1 I
I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until day-break, consuming the
/ x; f3 Q- M1 `% Ymidnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really7 s: x, w% B. A
unparalleled paragraph, which follows:-
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'So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don't crow, another# Y9 a/ n) N  o4 s7 j; u
time, before you're out of the woods! Does your mother know you're
; Z5 k$ S, ]! hout? Oh, no, no! -- so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old: g; _! d2 g% e" N- O; ?: C
woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl -- go! You won't!2 b9 b) B  r/ g% N9 q
Oh, poh, poh, don't do so! You've got to go, you know! So go at once,
3 y. x. |: T5 o8 ~6 s5 z$ N$ Nand don't go slow, for nobody owns you here, you know! Oh! John,
8 G; [+ ^% U1 WJohn, if you don't go you're no homo -- no! You're only a fowl, an: Y9 I3 @: j7 q" L) b2 }
owl, a cow, a sow, -- a doll, a poll; a poor, old,
. U/ W, F# Z' J5 ?2 d! qgood-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a
: |3 M$ z4 S0 ?2 NConcord bog. Cool, now -- cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your
; P% M2 u3 ^" R3 G% E* T0 @/ fcrowing, old cock! Don't frown so -- don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor
8 A5 q. i- M: q8 r3 O# R  ggrowl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you
  ~% q$ `, |( a9 Lso, you know -- but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so,
5 R4 N4 n4 _, b9 {) [$ z# Rand go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:04 | 显示全部楼层
Tired out, of course, by so wonderful a piece of work, the great
' R9 O$ u8 W& W9 d) sTouch-and-go could do nothing more than that night.  He handed his article to5 f! j6 `/ k, b% n8 s5 Z
the printer's boy who was waiting, and walked slowly home to bed.: ]+ i* p" P! k( s, A  G

; l0 y. _8 a2 `0 ]6 o( lThe printer's boy to whom the article was trusted ran upstairs  in a great hurry and prepared to set the article in print.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:10 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
In the first place, of course, -- as the opening word was 'So,' -- he
& {9 u5 }3 Y, M0 d/ \, b; Flooked for and found a capital S. Pleased with this success, he immediately threw himself upon the box where the little-o box were kept -- but who can5 o3 U7 G% G" t+ A# k/ g
describe his feelings of horror when his fingers came out of it without a( w1 ?2 Q+ e# C
letter in them? who can tell of his astonishment and anger when he realized that the little box was completely empty?  Not a single
0 V# }  `6 ]4 \little-o was in the little-o box; and, glancing fearfully at the
# V' k( J! P& Y2 B/ Z9 ycapital-O box, he found that in exactly the same state--empty.  He ran to his master.
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:19 | 显示全部楼层
'Sir!' said he, gasping for breath, 'I can't never set up nothing
+ H. ?# P( z4 O% h) x" ]without no o's.'1 B& N' e$ S; {: V( h" z
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'What do you mean by that?' said the chief, who was  very
6 O0 ~8 B) V. T- |0 Yangry at being kept from his bed so late.( y- r3 A  b/ p& X/ j& s' h

$ h/ S  s$ J7 e9 }'Well, sir, there isn't an o in the office, neither a big one nor a0 O; j3 p2 }8 S% u7 p% @: ~. J
little one!'/ U1 A4 a6 |6 N2 P" n! t+ m( S5 M! w

3 Y3 ~; t& h# v0 p9 T, e1 f) h'What -- what has happened to all those that were in the box?'
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. d1 Y* y. r" g4 d8 t8 c'I don't know, sir,' said the boy, 'but one of those Daily News people has been wandering about here, and I expect he's taken every one.'
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'I haven't a doubt of it,' replied the chief angrily, turning, q5 q+ {$ P# t% b2 v
purple with rage 'but I tell you what you do, Bob, that's a good boy; j5 \- P" s% A
-- you go over to the Daily News the first chance you get, and take every one of their
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'Right,' replied Bob. 'I'll go,
1 ]- }/ s0 o: z+ oI'll show them a thing or two; but what about that7 W2 }; l4 i" _# Q5 E- @% c
paragraph? It Must go in to-night, you know -- if not,  there'll be trouble'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:23 | 显示全部楼层
'Trouble enough. Is it a long paragraph, Bob?'
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% B. a0 S3 @2 _9 z'I Shouldn't call it a very long paragrab.'
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'Ah, well, then! Do the best you can with it! We must get it ready,'
$ h) n( z/ C3 h: [8 s: a# ^- p0 c0 b" {said the chief, who was buried in work; 'just put in
( H% ?6 S2 n- N, [& csome other letter for o; nobody's going to read the man's nonsense in any case.'
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:24 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
ok, from 7楼到9楼中的chief是谁?和Mr bullet- head是一个人吗?还是不同的人?
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 楼主| 发表于 2009-7-27 22:25 | 显示全部楼层
'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his& @8 {7 Q  d( M5 {2 X/ c
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
- w' j0 N4 C% z# r: E. V; ]  h/ o7 xperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
% a1 K! Z8 O5 H, E5 e  a- Beyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as: m) C! J; k) t3 K" |
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but" }1 t7 }( ~; F5 z& D$ [
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
4 _0 ^5 D8 i2 ~fight, in a small way.
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6 b2 q8 {- g$ XThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
, h" Y  n; z. S1 v: lprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the2 o* V( ^6 h: o9 `6 q
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost, K" x0 r5 z( b) e' k1 _# ?
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
$ U1 F6 H0 r  bdeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 A. w+ L5 B! Wsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old1 \& [0 i1 b1 r) S4 T
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an1 v0 f2 T. K5 g1 e
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it( o* E. T, A3 J8 T5 n
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than; h; B, I. f( u+ {5 o7 L- 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
  ?6 L" l: B% l' Y- q; U* Xit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy! e/ d5 @! \: |- u/ |3 G
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press1 G7 f. o5 c- D5 J# I3 D
it went x-ed.! K! R0 B& d+ r- |- o$ F- j
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
/ ?* I/ Y* W' w5 qreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:3 L( N& x  d2 Y
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther0 P  g+ _4 O4 b! ~9 ^
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're4 k; _( ^+ t! I6 c
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
' s( K% x, Z( \9 T' Z% zwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
$ O2 V' p) u$ I6 p8 ~8 `Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
- \5 H& H7 v9 Z" a- A+ k/ @% Lxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,2 J1 O' U, Y" }
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a
. I6 z! t* @! L8 [6 L% ~fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
% O  R( O; x- n* n5 Xgxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy, lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a9 z* d" T5 b& V( A: U7 B& I
Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
. C$ ~; J$ k& g- Rcrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,
4 U' x: `9 _' B9 Ynxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld- d2 C& p0 r5 H" g. G
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
) |( t7 \  ~5 h# I  D6 R& Z3 Dsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!'
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The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is! N7 `1 A% q8 {5 e3 M  S0 n
not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the
" Z; a* V: L& W$ {0 A% }- ipopulace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the
5 O7 o: K4 r; N$ Y! e) f6 j' R% bhieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head's" V7 I( q' v! R( G* `
residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that
; W! P, O' I9 Y8 T$ `: Bgentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell! M* p- j# Y6 }5 O, r) u2 k/ Q3 L
how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.7 v; s2 h  X- B* u2 O: D. O' ?' Y
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Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length
: G. u% {( t9 R( gsubsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of, O) e6 o8 \% M- _
opinion about this unhappy affair.
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One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
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Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of  A5 H! ^: b7 q1 L& r
fancy.- N4 b  ^9 t# ^, d7 {* h% o
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A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
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" e% I. W( H( W5 Q% f: ?A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee's design to X-press, in a% w- `. X9 i7 a
general way, his X-asperation.( v3 o/ @6 s. t1 R
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'Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,' suggested a fifth.# m& y4 d0 i; d. O
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That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity, was clear to all;
: D3 S+ p6 m2 g6 a, a8 o, B! jand in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some0 T8 v( O2 k" s. f# M
talk about lynching the other one.
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The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply,1 ], j3 `- [( V. \, |6 m) J* E0 D& C
X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician2 f) v/ f: O3 Q; l' \0 i
confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, every.7 }# f- t8 O- @# U3 ^% j9 X
body knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly
8 M# N5 f" p2 u6 |5 }observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.* ?( |) y* u+ o1 I# y- v7 P  m6 j

( @0 p% z& ^' D$ F. k0 DThe opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark about his having 'X-ed! A6 B& a( V" Y- Z
the paragrab'), did not meet with so much attention as I think it) b* @8 a* v7 V7 ]/ C. U9 l+ B
deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed.
$ L& ]+ n/ L) H! z; M3 \: \  ~He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all,% L4 Y) M, R; P2 l9 w- M+ i5 k0 e
that it was a clear case, that Mr. Bullet-head 'never could be0 m. K* }6 O! h) C, q+ V- c
persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually3 x) K% m* z3 e! S' d$ N
a-svigging o' that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral+ R3 y( Q9 g8 Q5 A- K
consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in
+ i; Q' b! O- g4 k# c3 Uthe X-treme.'
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