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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his5 D! [6 Q. v6 F9 c8 Y, w3 ?
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
5 s0 g! n: q) ~& s) x* [1 Dperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
* H* C. a& V4 o) reyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as. S0 c: \* N0 Z5 r, U
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
" U, f( O5 k4 M" D" Itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of7 |, z6 X1 V% r4 n
fight, in a small way.
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( N6 z* b% J" N# l: L6 C8 WThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
7 k, R! t1 a, T3 b% a$ h0 S5 oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
- E8 F4 X! u; c% M4 i" U" B, p) E2 m4 lfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost1 @) j( n9 C! ]
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
+ _1 g4 H6 A A6 ddeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most2 q5 p6 v2 k1 ?0 V0 p3 H; X
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old {5 x( m) |- C
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an# t% }; j: J# s% |5 R1 w
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it7 B- g1 N- Z' ?
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than' k0 {$ N( \ w7 [0 b6 x
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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6 T- u# Q" D4 c& F- T* J& k* m'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 M7 p/ _# L& x) s& U/ ?
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy' ^4 I! L" X$ A$ v
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press0 {* ^! k. h1 S F
it went x-ed.
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by' X8 W$ N/ s# ?7 e8 r: H6 F
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:8 Z, a8 l' ^" z+ D0 e/ ~0 }- J5 L6 h
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