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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his& g( W4 ?2 z! Q( p. P6 F
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,# R; Q0 B& V! @8 i$ R
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their, @1 \6 U, ?! o* D$ A5 g; T" N
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
3 ~* [5 Z( K1 [; mis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
9 @- b: v% r3 ?, x3 htwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of9 l7 k! l& ]! P" U) ^
fight, in a small way.
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; z W/ U% k# [' ^) C# y, [7 LThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in( O! `4 W& I) r& e
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the, T, Q7 S. S; x* W O$ L9 E
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost6 S! L# ?& f# _) j# D
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter- [* P2 L [& r% T9 W7 p) X
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
% i7 G. m8 R" i4 Fsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
" f; u6 _) _, Z! j& n8 ]times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an4 s7 p7 i% H. ]
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it- B2 ~3 j' i7 d, Q) W9 I1 r
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
( S/ `+ W( F3 M- W8 ethe 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
) p; f- q. I e4 Fit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
C4 ~# e' B. O% qparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press% a& c7 _5 M; O4 \) V( ^
it went x-ed.- k0 [ {8 c0 q' s. K! \# a) R& h
. W$ I; A$ @% K I( B/ K$ N/ bNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by u. d$ A4 A( H5 p# ^7 X
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,- ?& W/ H( G! |! m1 {( K' ]
Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a6 l, l- l* w T! ~
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