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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
- T# o; c% d0 o' acase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,
6 v( a" t2 }1 k2 `% dperticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
2 \. B) z6 J7 s( `- ]% meyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
1 I6 V. j" P7 q7 o" l6 yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
% R8 o( H* ]1 S9 w% Vtwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
9 ]# Z _1 m4 g: ` yfight, in a small way.
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The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
" x0 D3 x5 [$ h0 Oprinting-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
1 }) _+ N+ M- n, N" `& o; afact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost. I# a/ K' \! `; {. O, G4 O
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
3 {6 A+ E. E1 ~" f* e- `/ t) ndeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
5 z/ D& N9 t8 d2 g) U. A! l7 asuperabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old- |: Q1 ~# \+ f" w& b
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an7 H6 ?4 ]2 N' |4 u5 r: l" @* W1 \
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it$ a# G( ^2 J' \3 r$ X$ l
heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than! U" ^( Z1 ?$ [
the x to which he had been accustomed.& I2 ]/ s `/ ?# d5 H6 W
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
, F+ ?$ H( Z9 u7 m' Nit over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy
9 ?" b$ Q% |4 @, _, R2 Eparagrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press) u; u9 A+ j# t
it went x-ed.3 @% j5 H1 Q1 }6 X1 _; Z
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Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by! f0 ~" ^1 ]3 b! C/ }! D7 \- E* u
reading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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+ R0 N) z: z- {( `! Btime, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're( \$ G2 z; v4 J: t/ ]2 M
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld7 H6 o: z# v, f: ?/ h
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yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut' }' u) P, E5 k" Q& |1 C
sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!' |
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