Stoop, ^|aif you are abcedminded, ^|bto this claybook,^b|a| what curios of signs, (^|aplease^a| stoop) ^|ain this allaphbed,^a| a hatch, a celt, an earshare for to the pourquose of which was to cassay the earthcrust ^|aat all ^|bof^b| hours ^|bfurrowards & ^|cbagowards bogowards^c| like ^|can ox yoxen^c| at the turnpath^b|a|. Here ^|aare say^a| figurines billicoose arming and mounting. Mounting & arming bellicose figurines ^|aare there see here^a|. ^|aAnd Futhor,^a| this little effingee sta is ^|afor^a| a ^|afire^a| fing called a ^|aflintgun flintforfall^a|. ^|aFace at the eased. O I fay! Face at the waist. Ho you fie! Upwards & down them! face to dace!^a| When a piece does ^|aduty^a| for the whole we soon get used to an allforabit allphorabit. Here are selveran cued ^|alittle ^|bpetty petteet^b|a| peas of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make the ^|athe ^|btomtums tomtummy's^b|a| payroll. Right are rocks and with these rocks ^|arogues orangotangoes^a| rangled rough & ^|arightgoring rightgorong^a|. Wisha, wisha, ^|awhydidthe whydidtha^a|?
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^|aThis Thik^a| is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tomfool's ^|aanger traitor thrusth for vengeance^a|. ^|aWhat a ^|bmiddenhide's mnice old mness it mnakes, mniddenhide's^b| hoard of abjects! Olives, bats, kimmels, dollies, alfrids, ^|bpet_unread pethers^b| gormons daltons ^|b&^b| Owlets' eegs creakish with ^|bunread ^|cthe hoopoocough age & now^c|b| quite epsilene & ^|b|cwaweldy's oldwoldy^c|b| wobblewers ^|bnot hand^b| worth a wipe ^|bof a^b| grass.^a| Sss! See the snake ^|aworms wurrums^a| everywhere our ^|adurk durl^a| bin is sworming with sneaks! Subdivide and sumdolot and but the tale comes out the same ^|abalifuson^a|. ^|aAxe ^|bplays axe on axe on thwacks^b| on ^|backs thracks^b| axewise.^a| One by one ^|aplease place^a| one be three and one before. Two nursus one make free tree free and idem behind. What a tale to unfurl & with what an end in view ^|aof squattor ^|bantisquattor & postproneantisquattor auntisquattor & postproneauntisquattor^b|a|! And to say ^|athat we are us to be^a| all, every tim mick & larry of us, sons of the sod, ^|asons, littlesons, yea & ^|bweelittlesons leastlittlesons^b|a| when ^|awe are not usses not to be^a|, every sue, ciss & sally of us, dugters of Jan Nan. ^|aAccusative ahnsire! Dam blank to infinities!^a|
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True there was then no ^|apaper lumpend papeer ^|bas yet^b|a| in the waste and the mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot^|a|b, (^b|Signs on it!^|b,)^b|a| and I ate the wind. I ^|atipped quizzed^a| you a quid ^|a(with for what?)^a| and you went to quod. But the world, mind, is, was & will be writing its own ^|arunes wrunes ^|bfor ever, man,^b|a| on all matters that fall under the ban of our senses. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin: chip them, ^|achop chap^a| them, cut them allways: leave them ^|ato terracook^a| in the ^|aslow of their oven slowth of their mutthering pot^a|: and the ^|aday gutenmorg^a| of ^|aa^a| magnum charter wi must one way dawn else ^|athere is is there^a| no virtue more in
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alcohoran. For that is what paper is made of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. Till we finally (though not yet for all) meet with ^|athe acquaintance of^a| Mr Typ, Mrs Top and all the little typtoppies. ^|aFillstop Fillstap^a|. So you need hardly ^|atell spell^a| me that every word will ^|abe bound to^a| carry 3 score & ten ^|atomtypsical^a| readings ^|athrough throughout^a| the book of ^|alife ^|bBallyliving duble ends^b|a| till Daleth, who opened it, closes ^|athe thereof the^a| door.

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till Daleth thereofthe door
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The ^|amovables movibles^a| are ^|a|bcrawling scrawling^b|a| in motion march marching, all of them are in ago in pitpit & zingzang ^|a& every little earywig tells a little for every busy eerie whig's a^a| bit of a torytale to tell. Of a ^|aman and of a wife and noarch and a chopwife or^a| of a pomme ^|a|bso full^b| grave^a| and a ^|afamme fammy of levity^a| or of ^|athe golden^a| youths that wanted gilding or of the maid ^|athe miss that made a man what the misschievmiss maide a man do^a|. It was of a night. Lissom! lissom! I am doing it. Hark, the corne entreats! And the larpnotes prittle.