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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
# R7 P8 \, l: x) O% w/ s+ xcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions," V) a% Z4 Q$ Q1 H
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their/ e" J0 U' ]+ R6 f2 W$ B8 k
eyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
]- V9 ?1 o, v/ v) J; lis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
) Y' \9 \& g: ]. u5 btwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of! Z9 S- m1 ~4 k1 [9 P
fight, in a small way.
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: M4 g2 Z4 _0 y! I7 v/ vThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
' x' [' |4 Z4 c3 |" B; Qprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
9 m5 g( S* N5 z4 L3 H% N. _) q0 _fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
9 g5 Q+ }" C$ galways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter! s8 y" \* E, \0 g' R$ E' G
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most" ^9 K& v- N; W" e a& z1 T
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old; f- @7 z2 u+ k3 S5 u+ T
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
; _) m) w$ G# ]7 S! ?- Xhabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it$ H! u+ P& f- m- w; N
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than! g4 k5 S5 L) J5 ~
the x to which he had been accustomed.0 I, l! e/ s7 F! n6 l' q O/ m3 t
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read3 Q+ j: |: W& c! h1 T
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
- m1 z! o6 G9 Q( t- _paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press4 H9 E) |0 B- A9 ~' u
it went x-ed.; ^6 H4 ~/ G. D- ^
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
; ~% l+ z: H; K/ Vreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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