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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his f' S1 u- C/ b ]
case, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,7 h& X" ]) S% G0 m7 p
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their0 P3 [ I, Q/ s7 D
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as( K& i" {5 L3 z) t* f
is just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but+ w- ]3 w W5 z2 l5 t( `7 P# Z
twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
: s3 |3 w4 q4 h3 |: Tfight, in a small way.+ C( U; ?. q0 T+ y8 W/ e, R' {
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
0 z% @, z( @. Q- ^% ~( `! d' q2 t3 Tprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
) U4 Y- B& m/ ^( }7 Jfact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost% j* r. d7 j9 h8 h g
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter1 v7 g# |0 H6 ?5 k) u! _
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
/ G5 D% r- \9 X2 H& {; S3 }* Q& S- z: j/ rsuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old8 y: J1 H7 F: X2 W2 l
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an% N5 Y+ Z( @2 N: W; I6 @
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
4 X" V7 J* l7 u5 yheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than( ]' T+ g& v- \8 V. a
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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+ c5 U) f& K" b: E) h'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read4 w% `/ a; w) w3 Y9 w( C
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
; h" T6 v, t! U0 ?* vparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
+ [6 g& }, t6 z# [/ a; l- mit went x-ed./ h1 `0 {+ K- O# B, P
. {* i' w& i# }$ E( x9 nNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by- [+ t( V1 X5 ^2 R. @5 \+ u) B
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:* `& a6 n" l( J8 o: U0 G
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time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
p8 y8 R# R9 e% a# e6 tsx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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