— Sir, to you! ^|+I am brought up under an old act of Edward the First, but^+| I am known throughout the world ^|+wherever good English is spoken^+| as a cleanliving man and I think ^|+the our^+| public at large appreciates it most highly ^|+of me^+| that I am cleanliving & as a matter of fact I possess the sweetest little wife on the globe ^|+who won the consolation prize in the dreams of fair women ^|acompetition handicap by 2 breasts^a|+|. My ^|+clergymen chaplain ^|aan always sadfaced man who has visited ^|bmy our^b| very reins & hearts^a|+|, with the ^|+aid help^+| of my wife I mean to say, can speak to you ^|+|asome^a| quite complimentary things^+| of my
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^|+private morals as clean my clean character in the dark^+|. There is not a ^|+teaspoonful teaspoonspill^+| of evidence to my bad and I can humbly protest against everything to the ^|+high highest^+| personage at this moment holding down the throne. As a matter of fact I undertake to discontinue the practice. ^|+I have had my lesson.^+| I will say that since my toils ^|+of domestication^+| began famine has receded from the land. It were idle to inquire whether I am the product of group marriage or team work ^|+and^|a, surrounded(?) by obscurity,^a| I claim my naturalborn right ^|aat common law^a| to opt for blank^+|. I mean to say, had my faithful ^|+wife Fulvia^+| turned back on her ways ^|+in search of brunette men^+| or had she left her ^|+crocus^+| bed at the suggestion of some infamous fisherman there might be advantage to ask but she ^|+always did did always^+| ensue whatsoever pertained unto fairness and I did encompass her about^|+, my vermin breeder,^+| with lovingkindness and with soft goods and hardware and ^|+fine^+| hosiery lines and all daintiness at teatime ^|+& ^|abright gems pigmy suns^a| for supperhour & spiceries for her ^|aaged garbage^a| breath, a ewer ^|a& to my saffronbreathing mongoloid I gave^a| handewers & loinscrapers ^|aand a currycomb for her tuzzy^a|, clubmoss ^|awith &^a| wolvesfoot for her moister places and an earthcloset for her ^|aweekly sabbath^a| needs ^|a& I did learn my little country mousey her ^|bletters alphabeater cameltenter ^|cbirch ashenbirch^c| to hazelyou^b|, with a rattan ^|bto at^b| her drum, ooah oyir oyir oyir^a|+| and I did spread for her my ^|+selvage^+| mats of soft lawn ^|+and I planted for her a vineyard and fenced it about with Chesterfield elms and I brewed for her ^|astrong double X^a| Dublin lindub to split the spleen of her maw & I restored for her her paddypalace & added thereunto a ^|ashallow^a| laver to put out her hellfire^+| and I ^|+gave unto laid ^|adown^a| before^+| my eblanite waggonways ^|+|aof the stone^a| whereon the hinny and the mule and ^|athe many donkeys the jennet and the pooka and the copall and the hobbies^a| wen ^|aran stepped lively^a| for her pleashadure^+| and she laughed at the ^|+cracking ^|awhistling ^|bzwitchering switchering^b|a|+| of the whip.

— ^|+Mattah markah lukah johah ^|aMatthah markhah lukhah johhah Mattahah marahah luahah joahah^a|+|