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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 i3 ]' ?/ E0 Q2 G7 j
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,! \8 ?5 |' E6 Q/ M" D8 U+ W$ V
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their$ g& ]& v9 }+ f2 c
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. O, g$ A! i! Z" s" ]
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but: u0 N7 r3 r2 j3 c$ U9 y
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of5 D" M# K. ]: t- ^3 @/ ]
fight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
6 m! w1 t) g! F ?; b7 {9 Iprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the; [4 b3 M- X3 l/ G7 B/ c
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
0 ^9 {. N+ \; \2 Nalways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter4 S' t# ]$ ]/ T5 [, ^- F6 @
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
& _, i* V7 f& u# _5 g2 fsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old' G" K" V( B% I% L, G( S* f/ }
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an7 \) [5 T# k' L
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
# Y _% j, T d5 o6 L- yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than
. z8 F" A" P: k, |7 `5 Kthe x to which he had been accustomed.% E' t5 H8 F/ d4 a9 i
' H" W6 [' i: P% z0 b' S'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read+ m) J6 k$ j" O7 J' c$ I4 k
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
3 u6 v+ N$ h+ pparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press5 Y* Q$ r' h+ F9 }9 f+ {5 f% f/ }) h+ z1 R
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; ?0 {& h& a, `8 Q. oreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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