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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
7 T5 ?7 a8 @& s- Y# {2 Rcase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, B. w( _/ b a
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
9 a Z/ V& \6 _4 }4 A4 Veyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
- ^3 Q r" I( N5 J, yis just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
! p7 J1 g `0 C1 itwelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
3 ^0 e) T+ T( kfight, in a small way.
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. Y) U$ P$ n" P' c, ^1 Z! [The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in
5 C: T9 N& D8 j2 _printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the
) Q. o9 b. u0 Ffact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost
4 ]' X, r( }& V) }3 v5 T( palways happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter
& |" ^" J3 |6 Ddeficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most
+ c: F6 e4 l+ p: |superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old
) d m/ q% Q ]/ g: _5 J# x1 @times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an
) w$ y; b; }/ \& S6 I2 Ahabitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
6 j5 b5 [9 a$ H& W4 I% ~& C, bheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than% _" x1 H8 x- S+ x; g
the x to which he had been accustomed., a7 a% v# b! w9 m8 F# e- P
, K# ^+ V2 t, ]6 [$ x1 I; s7 z0 Z'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read
! a: s. c) |) A5 u _: Ait over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy, v5 W3 I U/ @/ e* w
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
4 Q; J* ~2 N% B! w( r( Nit went x-ed.% f/ f4 f3 H5 Y8 U( Y
/ W0 M" u) _$ f% n8 Z9 uNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
. D' y; u# m4 D" s3 b3 breading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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