^|1⇒ Lissom, lissom!^1|

It was of a night ^|1at a long time agone, late, lang time agone in an auld auldstane eld^1| when Adam was delvin and his ^|1madame madameen^1| spinning watersilts ^|1when big mountin man was everybully and the first leal ^|awoman everybilly ribberrobber everybuddy^a| else to his ^|amakin^a| eyes and when ^|aeverybully everybilly^a| lived ^|aand loved alove^a| with everybiddy else^1| and ^|1Sir Howther Jarl van Houther^1| had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse, laying cold hands on himself. And his two little jiminies, cousins of ours, Tristopher and Hilary, were not yet kickaheeling ^|1their dummy^1| on the oilcloth flure of his homerigh, cashel and earthenhouse. And^|1, be dermot,^1| who come to the keep of his inn only the niece of his, the prankquean? And the prankquean ^|1picked pulled^1| a rosy one and made her wit forenenst the dour. ^|1And she lit up.^1| And spoke she to the dour in her petty perusienne: ^|1Mark the Wans,^1| Why do I am alook alike a poss of porterpease? ^|1And that was ^|athe first of how^a| the skirtmisshes ^|abegan^a|.^1| But the dour handworded her grace in dootch nossow: Shut. So her grace o'malice ^|1snapped up his jiminy kidsnapped up the jeminy^1| Tristopher and out into the ^|1shandy^1| westerness she rain, rain, rain. And Jarl van Houther warlessed after her ^|1with soft dovesgall^1|: Stop deef stop come back to my earin stop. But she swaradid to him: Unlikelihut. And there was a brandnewwail that same sabboathº ^|1night of falling angles^1| somewhere in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years' walk ^|1in ^|aTourlemonde Tourlemounde^a|1| and she washed the blessings ^|1of the lovespots^1| off the jiminy ^|1with ^|aher soap^a| sulliver's ^|abubbles suddles^a|1| and she had her four owlers masters for to taught him his tickles ^|1|aand she convorted him ^|bto the onesure allgood^b|a| and he became a luderman^1| and then she started to rain
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and to rain and^|1, be ^|adormot red tom^a|,^1| she was back again ^|1with at^1| Jarl van Houther's in a brace of samers ^|1and the jiminy with her in her pinafrond^{1| |1}of another lace at^1| night at another time. And where did she come but to the bar of his bristolry. And the Jarl had his ^|1baretholobruised^1| heels drowned in his cellarmalt, shaking warm hands with himself, and the jiminy hilary and the dummy, in their first infancy, were below on the tearsheet, wringing and coughing^|1, like brodar and histher^1|. And the prankquean ^|1picked ^|apulled nipped^a|1| a paly one and ^|1lit up again &^1| she made her witter before the wicked, saying: ^|1Mark the ^|aTw_unread Twy^a|1| Why do I ^|1am^1| alook alike two poss of porterpease? And: Shut, says the wicked, handwording her ^|1modesty^1|. So her ^|1grace o'malice modesty a'forethought^1| set down a jiminy and took up a jimminy and ^|1all the ^|alilipath^a| ways to Woeman's land she^1| rain rain rain with her hillary hollary. And the Jarl bleethered atter her ^|1with a loud finegale^1|: Stop damb stop come back with my earring stop. But the prankquean swaraded: Am liking it. And there was a fineold
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grandnewwail that altarsame ^|1sabbaoth laurency night of starshootings^1| somewhere in Erio. And the ^|1prankwench prankquean^1| went for ^|1a her^1| forty days walk ^|1blank^1| and she punched the curses ^|1of cromcruwell^{1| |1}with the nail of a top^1| into the jiminy and she had her four larksical monitrix to taught him his tears ^|1and ^|ashe convorted him to the onecertain allserene^a| and he became a tristian^1| and then she started raining raining and in a pair of changers^|1, be ^|ared tom dom ter^a|,^1| she was back again at the Jarl's and her larryhill with her ^|1in her abromette^1|. And why would she halt at all ^|1only if not^1| by the ward of his ^|1mansionhouse mansionhome^1| of another ^|1night nice lace^1| for the third charm. And the Jarl van Houther had his hurricane hips up to his pantrybox ^|1ruminating in his all four stomachs ^|a(Dare! O dare!)^a|1| and the jiminy Toughertrees and the dummy were belor below on the watercloth, kissing and spitting and roguing and poghuing ^|1like knavepaltry and ^|anaivbride naivebride^a|1| and in their second infancy. And the ^|1prankwench prankquean^1| picked a blank ^|1& lit out^1| and she made her wittest in front of the arkway of triumph, asking: ^|1Mark the Tris^1| Why do I alook alike three poss of porterpease?
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^|1And ^|aBut that was ^|bthe last of her skirtmisshes how the skirtmisshes beg ^|cended endupped^c|b|.^a| For like the Campbells coming with a lance of lightning^1| van Houten himself^|1, the ^|aold^a| terror of the dames,^1| came hip hip handihip, out through the ^|1opened^1| arkway of his three ^|1shuttoned^1| castles, in his ^|1gingerbroad broadginger^1| hat and his civic chollar and his allabuff shurt like a ^|1red rudd^1| yellan ^|1gruebleen^1| orangeman in his violet indigonation to the whole longth of the strongth of his bowman's bill. And he ^|1clapped clopped^1| his rude hand to his ^|1E.C. Haitch eacy hitch^1| and he ordered and his thick ^|v1speech spich^v1| spuck for her to shut up shop, dammy. And the dummy shot the shutter up and they all drank free. And that was the first peace of illiterative porthery in the whole ^|1flamend^1| floody ^|1flatuous^1| world. The prankquean was to hold her dummyship and the jiminies was to keep the peacewave and van Houther was to get the wind up. ^|1For Thus^1| the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis
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O phenix culprit! Ex nickylow cometh good. Hill ^|1and rill we see but, rill, once in company ^|abilleted,^a| less be proud of. ^|aBreast ^|bit high^b| and bestride!^a| Only ^|afor that^a|1| they will not ^|1speak the secret of their silentness breethe the secrest of their sourcelessness^1|. Quarry silex, ^|1Homfrius Homfrie^1| Noanswa? Undy festiknees, Livia Noanswa? Wolkencap is on ^|1his head him, frowned^1|: ^|1audiurient,^1| he would ^|1hear ^|aevesdrop evesdrip were it ^|bmice mouse at hand^b|, were it dinned din of bottles ^|bin the far ear^b|a|1|: ^|1Murk,^1| his vales are darkling!: ^|1with lipth^1| she lispeth lithpeth to him ^|1ever and ever all the time^1| of thow and thow of thuch and thuch and thow and thow: she he she ho she ha to la: hairfluke, if he could but twig her!: he is impalpabunt, he abhears. ^|1The soundwaves are his buffeteers: they trompe him with their trompes: the wave of roaring and the wave of hooshed and the wave of bawahawrd and the wave of ^|adontmindthesefellowsbutlistentome neverheedthemhorseluggarsandlistletomine^a|.^1| Perpetrified in his offsprung, the moaning piper ^|1tells could tell^1| him to his ^|1face how only for him faceback how butt for his ^|aold^a| butt^1| there would not be a spier on the town or a vestal in the dock, no, nor a ^|1you yew^1| nor an eye ^|1to play ^|acatch catch cash cash^a|1| in ^|1old^1| nilbud now by swamplight nor a'toole
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a'tall ^|1a'tall^1| and noddy hint to the convaynience. He sweated his ^|1crowd crew ^|a|bin beneath^b| the auspice for the living^a|1| and ^|1he^1| urned his dead and ^|1he^1| made louse for us ^|1& delivered us to boll weevils amain^1| and begad he did ^|1till his ^|ain his windower's house^a| with a ^|ablush blushmantle^a| upon him from^1| earsend to earsend. And be the hooky ^|1salmon sammon^1| there's a big ^|1rody^1| lad now ^|1|aat random^a| on the premises^1|, ^|1I am told as it's told me, flourishing^1| like a lord mayor ^|1on show (for show)^1|, the height of ^|1a brewer's Brewster's^1| chimpney, humphing his showlders like he's such a grandfallar with a pockedwife ^|1in pickle that's a flyfire^1| and three ^|1sly little lice nittle^1| clinkers, two ^|1twin twilling^1| bugs and one ^|1pucell midget pucelle^1|, and either he did what you know or he did not what
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you know ^|1|awith weep^a| the clouds above for ^|awitness ^|bweeping smiling^b| witnesses^a|1| and that'll do now but however that may be 'tis sure for one thing that he^|1, overseen as we thought him,^1| came to at this place some time on another in a hull of a wherry and has been repeating himself like fish ever since an as also ^|1|afor all batin the^a| bulkihead ^|ahe bloats about, ^|bthe that^b| innebbiate,^a|1| that he was ^|1of^1| humile commune & ensectuous ^|1from^1| nature, as his you may guess ^|1from after^1| his byname, & that he is he & no other he who ^|1is primarily responsible will be ultimendly respunchable^1| for the ^|1high hall^1| cost of everything.