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'Wery well,' replied Bob, 'here goes it!' and off he hurried to his
, G8 e, y, @8 m" g: Y: ucase, muttering as he went: 'Considdeble vell, them ere expressions,0 \6 C3 V( D: W- |- |
perticcler for a man as doesn't swar. So I's to gouge out all their
' J. Q$ Y' `. X6 T" keyes, eh? and d-n all their gizzards! Vell! this here's the chap as
% `/ a1 }2 U, y! his just able for to do it.' The fact is that although Bob was but
5 \7 v; ~: k4 K; y" y! Q/ }twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of
, g& B9 r# y' }5 \% pfight, in a small way.7 F8 |+ C p7 j& y" Q X6 E
8 I0 W9 \+ S- b5 ^& ZThe exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in, o9 Y5 R& |% } I1 g
printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the- h* E" V* ~9 j! K
fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost0 t- Q, d( N5 [' g
always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter, B( m- q6 Q) M7 d! c
deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most1 G; ^' M. Y8 B; ?! Z0 |, D
superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old& _* f' d& J3 d! F; K& C
times -- long enough to render the substitution in question an" M/ r. c. x- m; z, H6 I
habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it
) V" c `, j* l5 W; \8 a5 Iheretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than7 P' D) N5 Q7 U+ a, T* d+ q5 x
the x to which he had been accustomed.
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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab,' said he to himself, as he read' F G1 J e! E9 ], V7 V6 s- o, k1 S
it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy3 N, b+ V7 s, M8 X* H' t5 a
paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press
3 X' Y: ]; {8 B# b. }* D7 F# |0 jit went x-ed.
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; q" i" a3 a% K7 q* qNext morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by
9 z+ J+ a: J; t1 vreading in 'The Tea-Pot,' the following extraordinary leader:
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'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther) W" L: z/ ^/ b
time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're5 P% h5 H% K/ L$ S; ~4 S4 `# T
xut? Xh, nx, nx! -- sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld
Q8 |. A8 R% |4 H {! l( Bwxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, -- gx! Yxu wxn't?
5 N- m$ y5 N. }Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw, sx gx at
, D, i8 R/ w* e; [6 q- ?8 Vxnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh,
- r g, N: _' r8 n$ g8 {Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx -- nx! Yxu're xnly a+ L. c% r" |0 ~
fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld
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Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw -- cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur
^) _! f% ~2 n+ Y# Ncrxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx -- dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl,2 d9 V7 l+ X+ g0 @
nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld/ q( `- b( v3 j( k" Y$ q
yxu sx, yxu knxw, -- but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut
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