Phew!

How warming ^|a'twas^a| to have been in there! But how keling is the airabouts here! Such reasonable weather too. The wind is ^|aso westerly sowesterly^{a| |a}around the downs^{a| |a}& on every blasted ^|bknolly-oak knolly-rock^b| stuck high there's ^|ba the same^b| gnarlybird gathering up ^|bone little true little free little poor little fine little slick little civil little late little nice little swell little a runlittle dolittle preelittle porelittle wipelittle ^|cpickalittle eatlittle dinelittle kicksalittle waitlittle pinelittle^c| kenlittle livealiitle ^|cleavenalittle aleavenalittle^c| pilfalittle^b| gnarlybird^a|. ^|aShe never comes out when Thon's ^|bthere on show in shower^b| or when Thon's ^|ba on^b| flash with Thon's tindergirls or when Thon's blowing thonders on Thon's gaelieboys down the gaels of Thon. Her wd be too moochy afeerd I do veer.^a|
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^|xNow she comes, a peacefugle, picking here, pecking there^x|
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^|xPussypussy ^|aplunderbussy plunderpussy^a|, it all goes into her nabsack & she ^|aborrowed the coach's burrowed the coacher's^a| lamp to see. Cartridges & ratlin buttins & nappy boots & ^|aflags flasks^a| of all nations & clavicurds & scapu scampulars & piles of pennies & ^|amoonlit^a| brooches with ^|abloodstaned^a| breeks in em & maps & keys & the last sigh that came from the heart & the first sin the sun saw. ^|aShe brings us her We know all men by these her^a| presents from the goneaway past how there'll
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be eggs for the brekkers come to mourning. For ^|awhere there is a gale find gall therewhere's the gale ^|bseek ^|cguess find^c|b| the gall^a| & ^|awhere there's whenthere's^a| a hind ^|aseek ^|bhunt seek^b|a| the hun.^x|
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The ^|abest cheapest^a| plan is to tour round east & north ^|a& review the to the review of^a| two mounds. Pardon. Behold this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? ^|aunread A sovereign^a| punned to paltry pence. Regally? A silence makes a scene. Behold!

Hush! Caution! Echoland!

How charmingly exquisite! It reminds you of the fading ^|aengraving engravure^a| that used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his innkempt house.
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Used they? ^|a(I am sure that ^|btiring^b| tramp ^|bwith the chocolate box^|c, Miry Mitchel,^c|b| was listening.)^a| I say, the remains of the famous gravemures where used to be blurried the Tollmens of the Incabus. Used ^|ahe we^a|? ^|a(He is only pretending to be ^|bsounding his bone tugging at the harp^b| from a second tired listener), Fiery ^|bPhil ^|cFergus Farrelly^c|b|)^a| It is well known. Look for himself. See? By the mausole mausolime wall. ^|aFinnfinn Fannfann. Fimfim fimfim.^a| With with a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum!

They will be tuggling forever.
They will be listling forever
They will be pretumbling forever
^|aThe harpsichord Their harpsdichord^a| will be theirs forever.

^|aAnd four things Four things ^|btherefore these four^b|a|, saith Mamalu Mamalujius ^|ain his Grand Old Historiorum writ by Boriorum^a|, sall ne'er fail ^|ain to^a| Dyfflinarsky ^|atill ^|bthe^b| heathersmoke & the cloudweed Eire's isle Sall hide^a|. ^|aAnd here now they are, the ^|bfour of them four Erins^b|.^a| A swellhead ^|aswelledhead on bulbenhead ^|bsurmounting surmounted^b|a| an alderman. A ^|aAy, ay!^a| A shoe on a poor old woman. ^|aAh, ho!^a| An auburn maid, ^|aa bridabride,^a| to be deserted. ^|aAdear, adear!^a| A pen no weightier than a polepost. ^|aAnd so. And all.º^a|
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^|aYetº how^a| Peaceably eirinical ^|ain grayquiet, all dimmering ^|bdowns dunes^b| & gloamering glades,^a| selfstretches ^|aafore us^a| this freedland's plain. Since the ^|ahigh old^a| times of Hebear and Hairyman the tulipair tulips twolips amass themselves at Rush the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun ^|athe blank^a|, the ^|adogrose duskrose^a| has chosen choosed out Goatstown crossroads, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, ^|athe place for twilights townland of twinlights^a|, ^|aand the^a| whitethorn and redthorn have fairygayed the ^|avalleys mayvalleys^a| of Knockmaroon and though, for rings round them during a hundred thousand yeargangs, the Formoreans have brittled the Tooath of the Danes and the ^|aOxmen have Oxman has^a| been pestered by the Firebugs & the
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Joynts have ^|agiven thrown^a| up wallmaking & Little on the Green is childsfather of the city, ^|atheir these^a| paxsealing buttonholes have quadrilled across the centuries and here now whiff to us fresh & l ^|amaid-of-all-smiles made-of-all-smiles^a| as on the day of ^|acombat Killallwhoo^a|.

The ^|ababbling of babblers with their^a| tongues have been ^|a& have gone,, they^a| were & went, thigging thugs were and houhynam songtoms were & ^|agumly norgers comely norgels^a| were & pollyfool ^|afrancees fiancees^a|; men have thawed, clerks have ^|asurssurummed surssurhummed^a|, the blond has sought of the brune: Else kiss thou may ^|amean ^|bkerry^b| piggy^a|?: and the ^|aduncle duncledames^a| have countered
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to the hellish fellows: Who ails tongue coddo^|a, aspace ^|bdumbbeksally dumbbillselly^b|a|?: & they fell upon one another & themselves they ^|afell have fallen^a|: yet still ^|a|bnowanights as all in nights of yore^b| do^a| all ^|aFloras the bold floras^a| of the field to their f fauns shyfaun lovers say only: Cull me ^|aI am ere I^a| wilt to ^|athee^a|, and^|a, but a little later^a|: Pluck me ^|aere whilst^a| I blush. Well, may they wilt, marry^|a, and! And^a| profusedly blush, be troth! For that saying is as old as the howths, wherever you ^|ahave lay^a| a whale in a whillbarrow (isn't it the truath I'm tallen ye?) you'll have fins & flippers to shimmy & shake.

Excuse us, Lictor. Can you direct one to the