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|3Concerning Nowº |8(to forebare for ever solittle of Iris
|10Free Freesº10| and Lili
|10O'Rangan O'Rangans10|)8|, concerningº3| the genesis of
Harold or Humphrey |2Coxon's Chimpden's2|
|3occupational3| agnomen |8|+(we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of
course|10, justº when enos chalked |ahblank
|bhallshutters halltrapsb|a|10|)+|8| and discarding once for all those theories from older sources which would
link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the Gravys|3, theº Northeasts, the
Ankers3| and theº Earwickers of |3Sidham
Sidlesham3| in the Hundred of Manhoodº or proclaim him (4a
descendant offsprout4) of vikings who had founded (4or settled wapentake and seddled hem4) in
Herrick or Eric,º the best authenticated version|10, the Dumlat, read the Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar,10| has it that
it was this way. We are told how |2in the beginning2| it came to pass that,º like
cabbaging Cincinnatus,º the grand old gardener was saving daylight (7under his
|s+8redwoodtree giant redwoodºs+|8|7) one |2sultry2| sabbath
afternoon|10, Hag Chivychas Eve,10| in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the
rere garden of |10mobhouse,10| ye olde marine
hotel|10,º10| when royalty was announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on the highroad along which
a |2leisureloving2| dogfox had cast |2followed by, also
at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels2|. Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain
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fealty to the ethnarch,º Humphrey or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat)|2,
hastingº2| to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, |8(++solascarf and
plaid,++)8| plus fours|8(++, puttees++)8| and bulldog boots ruddled |8with
red cinnabarº with
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flagrant8| marl,º jingling his turnpike keys and bearing aloft amid the fixed pikes of the hunting party a high
perch atop of which a flowerpot was fixed |2earth side up |8earthside
|~earthend earthside~|8| (7up hoist7) with
|8care |~absight care~|8|2|. On his majesty, who was, or
|2often2| feigned to be, noticeably |8longsighted
|~longvisioned longsighted~|8| from green youth, and had been meaning to inquire what|3,
in effect,3| had caused |3the
yon3| causeway to be (4so thus4) potholed, asking
|2alternatively, substitutionally2|,º to be put wise as to whether
paternoster and silver doctors were not now more fancied bait for lobstertrapping,º honest blunt Haromphreyld
answered in no uncertain tones very similarly with a fearless
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forehead: Naw, |2magersty yer maggers2|, aw war jist a |8cotchin
|~cocotchin cotchin~|8| on thon |8|~blue~|8| bluggy
|2earwugs earwuggers2|. Our sailor kingº, who was draining a gugglet
of obvious (7water adamale7), |10gift both and
gorban,10| upon this, ceasing to swallow, smiled most heartily beneath his walrus moustaches and,º indulging that none too genial humour which William the Conk on the spindle
side had inherited with |2the hereditary whitelock and2| some shortfingeredness from his
greatauntº Sophy, turned towards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord of Leix (++8in
and++)8| Offaly,º and the jubilee mayor of Drogheda, Elcock, the two scatterguns being Michael
|3M3| (4M.4) Manning, protosyndic of Waterford,º and
an Italian excellency named Giubilei according to a later version cited by the learned scholarch Canavan of Canmakenoise
|9(in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising puritas of doctrina, business per usuals and the purchypatch of hamlock where the paddish preties grow)9|,º and remarked
dilsydulsily: Holybones |8|+of Saint Hubert+|8|,º how our
|8red |~blood red~|8| brother of Pouringrainia would
audibly fume did he know that we have for |9trusty surtrusty9| bailiwick a turnpiker who is by turns a pikebailer no
|3less seldomer3| than an |3earwicker
earwigger3|! |9For he kinned Jom Pill with his court so gray and his haunts in his house in the mourning. |a(One still
|s+hearss+| that |bpebblecrustedb| laughterº, japijap cheerycherrily, among the
roadside tree the lady Holmpatrick planted and still one feels the |bamossiveb| silence of the cladstone allegibelling: Ive mies outs ide
Bourn.)ºa|9|
|8⇒8| Comesº the question:º
are these the facts |9of his nominigentilisation9| as recorded |9and
accolated9| in both or either of the collateral |s+8andrewpomurphyc andrewpaulmurphycs+|8|
narratives?º |8Are those their fata, fas or nefas, which we read in sibylline between the fas and its nefas? No dung
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on the road?º8| |10And shall Nohomiah be our place like? Yea, Mulchahy
Mulachy our kingableº khan?10| We shall perhaps not so soon see.
|9Pinck poncks that bail for seeks alicence |awhile wherea|
cumsceptres with scentaurs stay.9| |8|+Bear |~you in~| mind|10,
son of Hokmah, if so be you have metheg in your midness,10| this man is
|~mountan mountain~| and |++he changeth as we
unto changeth doth one++| ascend. |~Leave Heave~| we aside the
fallacy|10, as punical as finikin,10| that it was not the king kingselfº but his inseparable
sisters,º uncontrollable nighttalkers, Skertsiraizde (++and blank with Donyahzade,++) who
afterwards,º when the robbareesº shot up the socialights,º came down into the world «++as amuserss++| and were
staged by Madame Sudlow as |~Rose Rosa~| and Lily |~Misking
Miskinguette~| in |aher thea| pantalime |~the
that~| two pitts |~paidthroughunreaded paythronosed~|,
Meliodorusº |~and Menwhodorus and Galatheeº~|.+|8|
The great fact |3remains emerges3| that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed initialled
by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and while he was only and long and always good |2duke |s6dook
Dookºs6|2| Umphreyº for the hungerlean spalpeens of Lucalizod and Chimbers to his cronies it was equally certainly a pleasant turn of the
populace which gave him as sense of those normative letters the nickname Here Comes Everybody.
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|8⇒8| Anº imposing everybody he |8always
|~unwearingly always~|8| indeed looked, constantly the same as (4and equal
to4) himself and magnificently well worthy of |3any and all3| such universalisation, every time he continually
surveyed|8|s+, amid |savociferations vociferatingssa| |9from in
front9| of Accept these few |sanuts! nutties!sa| and Take off that white
hat!º,s+|8| |9relieved with Stop his Grog |aandº
Put It in the Loga| and Loots in his |a(bassvoco)a|
Boots,9| from good start to happy finish the truly catholic assemblage gathered together (7in |9the that
king's treat9| house of satin7)º |9alustrelike above floats and
footlights9| from (4all quarters theirº assbawlveldts and oxgangs4)
|2to applaud unanimously unanimously to (4applaud clapplaud4)2|
|10(the inspiration of his lifetime and the hits of their careers)10| |2Mr2|
(7W. W. Wallenstein Washington7) |v2Kelly's
|aSemper's Semperkelly'sa|v2| |2immergreen2|
|3company tourers3| in |10a command performance by special request
f with the courteous permission for pious purposes10| the |10homedromed and enliventh performance of
theº10| |3problem3| |2passion2| play of the
millentury|9, running strong since creation,9| A Royal Divorce|10, then near the approach towards the summit of
its climax,10| with ambitious interval band selections from The Bo'º Girl and The Lily on all
(++8gala horserie show++)8| command nights from his viceregal booth |8|s+(his boursaline bossaloner is ceilinged
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there a cuckoospit lower less eminent than the redritualhoods of Maccabe and Cullen)s+|8| where, a veritable Napoleon the (4Fourth
Nth4), |9our worldstage's practical jokepiece and retired cecelticocommediant in his own
wise,º9| |3the this3|
(4father of the people folksforefather4) all |2of2| the time
sat,º having the entirety of his |8house |~sib
house~|8| about him,º with the invariable broadstretched kerchief cooling his whole neck, nape and shoulderblades and in a wardrobepannelled wardrobepanelledº
tuxedo completely thrown back from a shirt well entitled a swallowall,º |2in on2| every point far outstarching the laundered
clawhammers and marbletopped highboys of the pit stalls and early |3gallery amphitheatre3|. |10The piece was this:
look at the lamps. The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies'º circle: cloaks may be left. Pit, prommer and parterre:º standing room only. Habituels conspicuously emergent.10|
It h
|10⇒10| Aº baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint. It has been blurtingly bruited by certain
(++8wisecracks wisecrackers++)8| |10(the stinks of
Mohorat are in the nightplots of the morning)º10| that he suffered from a vile disease.
|10Athma, unmanner them!10| To such a suggestion the one selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements which ought not to be and,º one should like
|10to hope10| to be able to add, ought not to be allowed to be made. Nor have his detractors, who, an imperfectly
|8warmblooded |~hematised warmblooded~|8| race, apparently conceive him as a
great white caterpillarº capable of any and every enormity in the calendar recorded to the discredit of the Juke and
Kellikek families, mended their case by insinuating that, alternativelyº, he |3was lay3| at one time under the ludicrous imputation of
annoying Welshº fusiliers in the |3people's3| park.
|10Hay, hay, hay! Hoq, hoq, hoq! Faun and Flora on the lea love that little old joq.10| To anyone
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who knew |8and |~and, knowing and~|8| loved the
Christlikenessº of the big cleanminded giant H. C. Earwicker throughout his
|9excellency9| long |9|avicefrugal vicefreegala|9|
existence the mere suggestion of him as a lustsleuth nosing for trouble in a boobytrap rings particularly preposterous. Truth(8', beard on
prophet,º8') compels one to add that there is said to have (8'once been |s+olim
been |aoneques been been quondama|s+| (pfuit! pfuit!)º8') some case of the kind implicating, it is
(8'sometimes interdum8') believed, a quidam |8|+(if he did
not exist it would be necessary quoniam to invent him)+|8| |2(8'about abhoutº8') that time
(8'walking around Dublin stambuling haround
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Dumbaling8') |8|+in |aleakya| sneakers+|8|
with (8'a bad his tarrk8') recordº2| who has remained
(8'completely anonymous topantically anonymosº8') but
(4(let us (8'call hue8') him Abdullah Gamellaxarksky)4) was,
it is stated, posted at Mallon'sº at the instance of watch warriors of the vigilance committeeº and years
afterwards|2, (8'writes cries8') one
(4evenº greater4),2|
(8'Ibid, a commender of the frightful,º8') seemingly|10, |ato
untoa| such as were sulhan sated,10| (8'dropped dead
whilst tropped head8') (8'(pfiat! pfiat!)º8') waiting
|10his first of the month froods10| (8'for a chop turn for
thatt chopp8') (8'somewhere near pah kabbakksº alicubi |9|+on the
old house+|9| |10for the chargehard, Roche Haddocks10|
off8') Hawkins Streetº. |10Lowe, you blondy liar, Gob scene you in the narked place and she what's edith atº
home defileth these boyles! There's a cabful of bash indeed in the homeur of that meal.10| Slander, let it lie its flattest, has never been able to convict
(8'that ourº8') good and great and no ordinary Southron Earwicker,
|10that homogenius man,10| as aº pious author
callsº him, of any graver impropriety than that, advanced by some (7woodward or regarder woodwards or
regarders7)º who did not dare deny|10, the shomers,10|
|2having that (7he they7) had(8', chin Ted, chin Tam, chinchin
Taffyd,º8')2| that day consumed (8'the their8') soul of the corn, of
having behaved |10in an ungentlemanly manner with anº
|aungentilmensky ongentilmenskya| immodus10| opposite a pair
of dainty maidservants in the (4greenth swoolth4) of the rushy hollow whither, or so
|2both the two2| gown and pinners pleaded, Dame Natureº
|3in all |ainnocence innocencya|3| had spontaneously and about the
same hour of the eventide sent them both but whose published combinations of (7silkinlaine7) testimonies are, where not dubiously pure, visibly
divergent(7, as warptº from wept,7) on minor points touching the intimate |8nature
|~colour nature~|8| of this, a first offence in vert or venison which was admittedly an incautious but, at its
(4widest wildest4), a partial exposure with |3such3|
|8attenuating |~attenuaant attenuating~|8| circumstances (4(garthen
gaddeth green hwere sokeman hridethº girling)4) |3of
as3| an abnormal Saint |+4Martin's Swithin's+|4| summer
|8and |~and, good our liege, although aggravating, and
|10(Jesses Rosasharon!)º10|~|8| a ripe occasion to provoke it.º
|8|xWeº can't do without them though. Wives,º rush to the restgownsº! |9|aOfmen Ofmana| will toman while led is the lol. Zessid's our kadem, villapleach, vollapluck. Fikup, |afor flesh Nellijº,a| el mundo nov!, oleº flen!9| If she's |~lily a lilyth~|, pull early! Paulines Pauline, allow! |s+And malers abushed, keep black, keep black!s+|x|8|
Guiltlessº |3of much laid to him3| he was clearly for soº once at least he clearly andº with still a trace
of his erstwhile burr |v4declared himself to be expressed himself as beingºv4|
and |3we know |v4hencev4|
it has been received |v4of
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usv4|3| that it is true. They tell the story |10(an amalgam as absorbing as
cl calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges
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|acan coulda| make it)10| |v4that
howv4| one happy-go-gustyº |3April Ides-of-Aprilº3| morning (the
anniversary,º as it fell out,º of his first |3donning |v4assuming
assumptionv4|3| of |2long trousers |3youth's trousers his
mirthday suit |v4andv4| rights |v4in appurtenancev4| |ato the
confusioning of human racesa|3|2|) |4long ages andº ages4| after the
alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of |3nature |8nature all
creation8|,º tigerwood roadstaff to his stay,º3| was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his |3caoutchouc kepi
|8and (++greatbelted great belt and++)
|12leatherbrags hideinsacks12| and his |abluefunx blaufunxa|
fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters |~(++and his
blank++)~|8| |v4& andv4|3|
|8(++his++)8| rubberised invernessº he
|5met METº5| a cad with a pipe. The latter|3, |8the luciferant not the
(++orilate oriuolate++),8| who |a(the odds are)a| is
still |8going about berting
dagoboutº8| |5in the same straw bamer5|,
|a|bcarryingº his |8coat |~goat
overgoat~|8| under his |8arm schulder, sheepside out,8| |5so
as to look |8more8| like a |8coumfry8| gentleman5|
andb| signing the pledge as gaily as |bever you
pleaseb|,ºa|3| hardily accosted him with how do you
|3howdoyoudo: |v4guiness
Guinnessv4| thawº tool |5in jew me dinner
(7ousel ouzelº7)
fin5|?º3| (a
|3common phrase nice how-do-you-doº3|
in |5Dublin Poolblack5| at the timeº |3as some of our
|aoldfellows |5oldtimers
|8oldchimers olddaisers8|5|a| |v4can
mayv4| still tremblinglyº recall3|) to ask could he tell |3him3| how much
|4o'clock |5a clock a'clockº5|4| it was that the clock struck had he
any idea |2by |5cock's o'cock'sº5| luck2|
|3as his watch was bradys3|. |8|+Hesitency was clearly to be evitated. Execration as cleverly to be
honnisoid.+|8| |3Earwicker The Earwicker of that spurring instant3|, realising on
fundamental |3liberal3| principles the supreme
importance|8|+, nexally and noxally,+|8| of
|v4thev4| physical life |3(the nearest help relay being
|apingpingºa| K.O.º |v4Saint Patrick's
Senpatrick'sºv4| Day and the fenian risingº)3| and unwishfulº as he felt of being
|8sent hurled8| into eternity |8right then8|,
plugged by a softnosed bullet from the sap, halted,
quick on the draw,º and|3,º replyinº |athata| he
wasº |afeelinºa| tipstaff, cue,3|
|v4produced prodoocedv4| from his gunpocket his
|3Jurgensen's3| shrapnel waterbury|8|+, ours by communionism, his by
usucapture,+|8| but, |v4at the same instant on the same
stroke,v4| hearing above the skirling of harsh Mother Eastº old Fox Goodman|3,
|5the bellmaster,º5| over the wastes to south,3|
|3at work |v4work one at workv4|3| upon the
|2|v4five tenv4| ton2| |8tonuant
|~thundrous thunderous~|8| tenor |5bell
toller5| in the speckled church |10(Couhounin's call!)10|,º
told the inquiring |3cad kidder|a, by Johovaº,a|3| it was
|3butt3| twelve
|3punctual |aof |v4them
emv4|a| sidereal3| |8and tankard time8|,º
addingº |3however buttall3|, as he |3bent down bended
deeply|a, with smoked sardinish breath,ºa|3| to give more |v4weight
pondusv4| to |3his utterance the copperstick he presented |10(though this seems in some cumfusium with the
chapstuck
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ginger which, as being of sours, acids, salts, sweets and bitters compompounded, we know him to have used as chawchaw for bone, muscle, blood, flesh and vimvitals)10|3|,º
that (7whereas7) the |3hakusay3| accusation |v4against him
|aagainst im againstma|v4| had been made, what was wellº known in high quarters, |8asº was stood
stated in |~Morganpost
Morganspostº~|,8| by a creature in |v4human
youmanv4| form who was |5quite beneath parr and5| several degrees lower than
(7a yore7) |3tri
|v4treblehydrad triplehydradv4|3| snake. In greater support of his
|3words word3| (|3they have it, quaint anticipation of a
famous phrase, hasº3| been |v4reconstructed reconstrictedv4|
|8|+out of oral style into the verbal for all time with ritual rhythmics|a, in quiritary
quietude,a|+|8| |3and |v4tosammenstucked toosammenstuckedv4|3| from successive accounts
|3by Noah Webster3| in the redaction known as the Sayings
|3Attributive3|º
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of H. C. Earwickerº|3, |v4price prizev4|
oneº schillings|v4, postlots freev4|3|)º the flaxen |3giant
Gygas3| tapped his |3chronometer chronometrum |v4drumdrumv4|3| and, now standing full
erectº |3above the ambijacent floodplain,º3| |8scene of its
happenence,º8| with one Berlin gauntlet |v4chopstuck in the hough of his elboge
ellbogev4| |v4pointedv4|
|3(|4in by4| ancientest signlore his gesture
meaning|4:4| |v4blank
|5blank yº5|!)v4|3|
|v4pointed at an angle of thirtytwo degreesv4| towards |v4the hisv4|
|3iron duke's duc de Fer'sº3| overgrown milestone |3|v4&
asv4| theº fellow |v4for tov4| his
gage3|º |v4andºv4| after a |3Macready
readypresentº3| pauseº averred with solemn |3emotion emotion's fire3|:
|2Credit me, my friend. |3Credit me, comrade.
|aShake Shsh shakea|, |5co-comrade
co-comeraid5|!º3|2| |10Me only, them five ones, he is equal combat.10| I
have won straight. Hence my |3nationwide no-nationwideº3|
|2business hotel and |v4general
business creamery establishmentsv4|2| (7and which7)
|3for the honours of our mewmew mutual daughters|v4, credit me,v4|3| I am
|3woowoo3| willing |3|v4, credit me, even if I get life for
itv4|3| to take my stand|2, sir,2| upon the monument, that sign of our
|3ruru3| redemption, any hygienic day |v4at
tov4| this hour and to (7declare make my hoath7) |3to my
|adearºa| sinnfinners|v4, even if I get life for
it,v4|3| upon the Open Bibleº |v4andv4|
|3befuº3| before the Great Taskmaster's eyeº |3(I lift my
hat!)º3| and in the Presenceº of the Deity Itself |v4as well as
andwellv4| of (7Bishop and Mrs Michan of High Church of England as of all such of said7) my immediate
|3neighbours withdwellers3| and of every living |3soul
|v4sohule soholev4|3| in every corner wheresoever
of this globe in general |3acquainted with the which useth
|v4with ofv4| my3| British
|3to my backbone3| tongue and commutative justice |3|v4even if I
got life for it,v4|3| that there is not one tittle of truth|3, allow me to tell you,3| in that
purest of |3fibfib3| fabrications.
|8⇒8| |3The cad Gaping Gill3|,
|3|4who,4|3| |9swift to mate errthors, stern to checkself,9|
diagnosingº |3|v4at oncev4| through hisº
eustacetube3| that |v4he had it wasv4| to
(7do make7) with a markedly
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postpuberal hyperpituitaryº type |3of |v4Heidelbergmanlike
Heidelbergmannleichºv4| |5blank
cavern5| ethics3|,º
|8|+|atouched lufteda| his slopingforward,+|8|
|v4bad |9him Sweatagore9| good murrough |8and
dublnotch on to it as he was greedly obliged,8| andv4| like a sensible
|3man ham|9, with infinite tact in the delicate situation seen the touchy nature of its
perilous theme,9|3| thanked |3|v4him, sir, umv4|3| for
|3guilders received and3| theº time of day |3|v4bad him good murroughv4|3| (not a
little |v4taken aback token abockv4| all theº same that that was
|3all the time owl the God's clock3| it
was) |3and|10, upon humble duty to greet his Tyskminister and he shall gildthegap Gaper, and thee his a mouldy
voids,10| went about his business,º |v4wherever whoeverv4| it was,
|8saluting corpses, as a metter of corseº |a(one could hound him out had one |bcare
hartb| to,º for the |~blank monticules~| of scalp and dandruff
|~monticules droppings~| blaze his trail),ºa|8| af accompanied by his trusty
snarlerº and his permanent reflection |a|v4ofv4|a|,º
|v4verbigracious:ºv4| I have met |v4withv4|
you |v4either, |asir
birda|,v4| too late, or if not, |v4|asir,a|v4|
too |4worm and4| early:º3| and
|10repeated erebusquedº10| |9with
tag for ildiotº9| |3verbatim in his
secondmouth language3| as many of the |5bigm bigtimer's5|
|3verbaten3| words |v4as whichv4| he could
|3balbly3| |v4call |arecall
calla|v4| to memory that same |v4evening kveldeve|9, ere the hour of |shthe
twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea,sh|9|v4|
|3at |acome whena|3| suppertide
|4and souvenir4| |3|v4came gentlyv4| to quiet
|v4greybluev4| |v4Charletan
Charlatanv4| Mall |v4jointly kem gentlyv4| |aand along the quiet darkenings of Grand
|v4& andv4| Royal |b|cas flitmouse flew and it crept in hedge, ff,
|v4the flittmansfluh flitmansfluh,v4| and, kk, 't crept i' hedgec|b|
|v4as |awhereas whenasa|v4| to many a
|bsofty softtongue'sºb| pawkytalk mude unswer
|4a u4| sufter |v4pogyyog
poghyyoghºv4|,a|3| |10Arvanda always aquiassent,10|
while|9, |shstudying castelles in
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the blowne and studding cowshots over the noransh|,9| he spat |3carefully in careful
convertedness3| |10a musaic dispensation10| about his
|3hearthstone |5hearthstone, hearthstone, if you
|8please pleasesº8| (Irish saliva, ple mawshe dho hole, but
would a respectable |awellconnected prominently connecteda| fellow |10of
Iro-European ascendances10| |8|+with welldressed ideas+|8|
(7who knew the correct thing7) such as |aMr |bMonsieur
Mrb|a| Shallwesigh or Monsieur Mr Shallwelaugh expectorate after such a callous fashion, no,º thank
|8you yous8|,! when he had his (7belcher7) spuckertuck
in his |atassy pucket, pthucka|?),º5|3|
|3in museful thought musefed with
|v4thoughts his thou thockitsºv4|3| after having supped of
|3the dish |5|+sot and pottage which |8|+|~the pot valiant~|+|8| he
snobbishly+|5| |v4named dabbedv4| Peach Bombay |10(it is rawly only
Lukanpukan |apottee |bpie
pilzenpieb| which she knows which senaffed and pibered
hima|)10|,º3| |2very excellent
|3very supremely excellent a supreme of excelling3|2| peasº |v4boiled
balledv4| |10under minnshogue's milk10| |3with
into3| whitemaltº |3vinegar |awinesour
|v4winesowre and rootie winesourv4|a|3|, a proviandº
|3|v4which with a chaser of perryv4|3| |8he the
littlebilker8| |+8frankly hoarsely+|8| relished|3,
chaff it,3| in the |10raw snevel10| season|8, being as fain
o't as |~a your~| rat wi' fennelº |~; and on this celebrating
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occasion of the happy escape, for a crowning of pot valiance, hisº regional platter, benjamin of bouillisº, |10with a spolish
olive to middlepoint its zaynith,10| was marrying itself
|9(porkograso!)º9| very deluxiously with a bottle of Phenice-Bruerie '98, followed for second nuptials by a Piessporter, Grand Cruº, of
both of which cherished tablelights |10(though humble the bounquet 'tis a leaman's farewell)10| he obdurately sniffed the cobwebcrusted corks~|8|.
|8⇒8| |3The cad's wife Our cad's bit of strifeº |5|+(knee
Bareniece |aMacSwell |bMaxwell
Maxweltonb|a|)+|5| with a quick ear for spittoonsº3| (as the aftertale |3has
hath3| it) |3|10gleaned glaned10| up |aas usual
|v4with her usual domestic husbandry as usual with dumbestic husbandryv4|
|10(no persicks and armelians for |aher thee,
Pomeranziaa|!)10| |v4& but|10, slipping the
clav in her claw,10|v4|a|3| |3spoke broke3| of the matter
|5among a hundred and eleven others5| |3|v4with inv4| her usual
curtsey3| |8(how faint these first vhespers womanly are|10, a secret
pispigliando,10| amad the |10lavurdy10| den of their manfolkenº!)8| the
next night |3but nudge3| oneº |10as was
Hegesippus10| |3over |5a
oº5| |10cup hup10|
|v4o' cha a' chee|9,
|shher eys dry and small and speech thicklishsh| |shbecause
he appeared a funny coloursh| like he couldn't stood that they old hens no
longer,9|v4|3| |3after sodality meeting |v4after sodality
kneelingv4|3| to |3the her particular3| reverend, the director,º whom she had been meaning
|3in her mind primarily3| to speak with |10(hosch, intra! jist a
timblespoon!)10|,º trusting|3, between cuppled lips |5and annie laurieº
promises5| |10(mighshe never have Esnekerry pudden come Annanovº for
her pecklapitschens!)10|,º3|
|+8it that the |9report gossiple9| so delivered in his
epistolear|9, |shburied |12teatoatsally
teatoastally12| in their Irish stewsh|,º9|+|8| would
|3go slipº3| no further than his
|3jesuit's3| cloth, yet |10(in vinars venitas! volatiles
valetotum!)10| it was |3he this
|v4romish overspoiledv4| priest,º Mr Browne,3|
|v4in all human likelihoodv4||3|v4,v4| disguised as a
vicentianº,3| who, when seized of the facts, was overheard|v4,v4| |3in his
secondary personality as a Nolan,º3| |v4andv4|
|10underearedº, poul soul,10| by accident — if, |v4indeed that
isv4|, |3it the incidentº3|
was an accident |10for here the ruah of Ecclectiastes of Hippo outpuffs the writress of
|aHavvah-bean-Annah Havvah-ban-Annaha|10| — to
|3repeat pianissime3| a slightly varied version of |8the words
Crookedrib'sº |s+words confidentialss+|8| |3|9(what Mère Aloyse
said but for |aJesephine's Jesuphine'sa| sake!)9|,º hands between
|8hands hahands8|, in fealty sworn |9(my bravor best! my
fraur!)9|,º3| |3to and|9, to the strains of The Secret of Her
Birth,º9| hushly pierce the rubiend |+8ear aurellamº+|8| of
|aone Philly |bThorston |v4Thornton
|aThurston Thurnstona|v4|b|,ºa|3| a layteacher of near stout figure of
rural science and |3school gardening |v4orthophonetics
orthophonethicsv4|3| of a nearstoutº figure and |v4in aboutv4| the
middle
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|3forties of his forties,º3| during a
priestly flutter for safe and sane |3bets (++8lds
bets++)8|3| at the |3racecourse hippic runfields3| of
|2breezy2| Baldoyle on a date |9(W. W. goes through the
|~Kard cardº~|)9|
easily capable of |v4remembrance rememberancev4| by all |3good
turfites pickersupº of |8|s+events classic
national ands+|8| Dublinº details|9, the doubles of Perkin and Paullock, peer and
prole,9|3| when the |3classic3| Encourage |v4Selling
Hackneyv4| Plate was captured by two |+8lengths noses in a (++blanket
stablecloth++) finish|9, ekº and nek, some and none, evelo
nevelo,9|+|8| from |9the cream colt,9| Bold Boy Cromwell after
a clever getaway by Captain |3D. Chaplain3| Blount's |3fresh colt
Drummer Coxon roe hinny Saint Dalough (Drummer Coxon |9nondepict9| third)º3| at
|2short breakneck2| odds|2, |5thanks
(7(thanks thanks7)5| to you,º great little|9, bonny little, portey
littleº9| |3Danny Frush, Winny
|5Widger, (7Widger!)
Widger!º7)5|3| |9you're all their nappies!9| who in his neverrip
mud and |v4purple purpularv4| |3cap was3| surely
|3|v4miles leaguesv4|3| unlike any other |3jockey
phantomweight3| that ever |3happened
|v4topped the |atopped
toppitºa| ourv4| timber maggies3|2|.
It
|12It was 'Twas12| two |10pisonouseº10| |12coves Timcoves12| |10(the wetter is pest, the renns are overt and come and the voax of the |aturfer turfura| is hurled on our lande)10| of the name ofº Treacle Tom, as was just out of (7pawn pop7) following the theft of a leg of |5Kehoe, Donnellyº and Pakenham'sº |aFinnisha|5| pork,º and his own blood and milk brother |v4professionally known asv4| Frisky Shorty |3|9(he was, to be exquisitely punctilious about them, both shorty and frisky)9|,º a tipsterº3| come off the hulks,º both of them awful poor, what was out on the bumaroundº for an oofbirdº game for a jimmy o'goblinº or a small thick un as |3heard chanced|9, while the Seaforths was making the colleenbawl,9| to ear |awick their own hearsºa|3| the |v4parson passonv4| in the motor |2togs clobberº2| make use of |v4the hisv4| |8law8| language |9(Edzo, Edzo on)º9| |8|+touchin the case of Mr Adams what was in all the sundays about it+|8| which he was |3rubbing noses with and3| having a gurgle off his own along of the butty bloke in the specs.
|8⇒8| This Treacle Tom|5,5| to whom reference has been
made|5,º5| had been absent from his usual wild and woollyº
haunts |9in the |shland of counties
capalleenssh|9| for some time previous to that (he was, in fact, in the habit of frequenting common lodginghouses where he
slept|3|v4, hailfellow with meth,v4|3| in a nude
state|v4, hailfellow with meth,v4| in strange men's
|4bunks cots4|) but on racenight|v4,v4| blotto after
divers tots of |s10rum tony hell fire|a,
red biddya|s10| |v4|8|s10and, bull dog,s10| blue
ruin |s10and creeping jennys10|8|,v4| |9|10Englandine'sº choicest
herbage,10| supplied by the Duck and |aDog Doggiesa|, the Galopping Primrose, Brigid Brewster's,
the Cock, the Postboy's Horn,
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the Little Old Man's and, all swell that aimswell,º the Cup and the Stirrup,º9| he sought his wellwarmed
|9bed leababobed9| in a
|3house of call housingroomº |a|bColumbarium Abide With
Oneanotherºb|a|3| at Block |v4W W.W.v4|
|9(why didn't he back it?)9|,º Pump Court, The Liberties,º and|9, what with
moltapuke on voltapuke,9| |3repeated resnored |8alcoh
alcoho8| alcoherently3| |9to the burden of |shI come, my horse
delayed,º sh| nom, num,9| the substance of the tale |3of the
evangelical |abusybody |v4busybozzy bussybozzyv4|a|3|
|9and the
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rusinurbean (the “girls”º he would keep calling them for the collarette and skirt, the sunbonnet and carnation)9| in parts |9(it seemed he was before the eyots of martas or
otherwales the thirds of fossilyears, he having beham with katya when lavinias had her mens lease to sea in a pumpshipº
doodly show whereat he was looking for fight niggers with whilde |aroars
roarsesa|)9| |v4more than oncev4| (7oft in the chilly
night7) |9(the metagonistic! the
|shepickthalamoroussh|!)9| during uneasy slumber in
|4the joint hearing their hearings4| of Peter Cloran a
|3discharged small and stonybroke3| cashdraper'sº
|3executive
ex-executive,º3| Peter Cloran
|3(discharged)3|,º |3O'Donnell O'Mara3|,
|3a |aa former an ex-privateºa|3|
secretary of no fixed abode (locally known as |3Cruck
|aMildewa| Lisa3|)º who had passed several nights|3, funnish
enough,3| in a doorway |3under the blankets of homelessness on the bunk of
|5iceland icelond5|,º3| |5pillowed upon the stone of destiny
colder than man's knee or woman's breast,5| and Hosty |10(no slouch of a
name)10|,º an illstarred beachbuskerº who, |3sans
rootie and sans |5blank (7suet
scrapie7)5|,3| |10feeling
suspicioning10| |3suicidal as how he was
|10setting on a twoodstool10| on |athe
|v4his thev4|a| verge of selfabyss|10, most starved,10|
|awith melancoholiaº over everything in general |10(night birman, you served him with
natigal's nano!)10|a|3|,º had been
|10towhead10| tossing on his shakedown, devising ways and |3mannersº
of3| meansº of |10what he loved to |aifidalicense
ifidalicencea|10| somehow or other |10in the nation10| getting a hold of some 's chap's
parabellum in the hope of (7taking a |8tuppence wing8| sociable
and7) lighting upon a |10sidewheel10| dive somewhere off the |3main
tramline Dullkey Downlairy and Bleakrooky tramaline3| where he could |10throw true and10| go and
blow the |5sibicidal5| napper off himself |10for two
bits |ato boldywell balditudeºa|10| in |10the10|
peace and |v4quietness |10quietude quitybus10|v4|
|10of a one sure shot bottle10|, he |9having been after having
being9| trying all he knew |9with the lady's help of Madam |aGristle
Grisstleºa|9| for |v4over upwards ofv4| eighteen
|3months colandersº3| to get |5out of Sir Patrick Dun's, through Sir
Humphrey Jervis'sº and5| into |9the Saint Kevin's bed in
the9| |5Jervis Street Adelaida'sº5|
|3hospital |5hosspittle
hosspittlesº5|3| |9(from
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these incurable welleslays |a|band among thoseb| uncarable wellasdays
|b|cfor throughc|b| Sant Iago |bby hisb|
cocklehatºa| good Lazarº deliver us!)9| without |9after9| having been able to
|9wangle jerrywangle9| it anysides. |3O'Mara Lisa
|9O'Dara O'Deavis9|3| and |3Peter Doran Roche
|9Moran Mongan9| |a(whoº had so much
incommonº, |9epipsychidically,º9| if the phrase be permitted,º hostis et odor insuper
petroperfractus)a|3| as an understood thingº slept |9their sleep of the
swimborne9| in the |2same one2|
|3bed |v4tumbler bed (7tumblerbed
|9tumblerbunk sweet undulant mother of tumblerbunks9|7)v4|3| with Hosty |3just
|alike howa| the shavers in the shaw|9, theº yokels in the yoats or, well, the wasters in the
wilde,9| |a|v4and a good night's rest und rumble with his co-exes H was not the same manv4|a|3| and the bustling
tweeny |v4dawn-of-all-work dawn-of-all-worksºv4| |9(meed of anthems here we
pant!)9| had not been |v4very many hours many jiffiesv4| furbishing potlids, doorbrasses, scholars'º applecheeks and
linkboys'º metals when|10, ashhopperminded like no fella he go make bakenbeggfuss longa white man,10| the rejuvenated
busker |v4(for after a goodnight's rave and rumble |10and a shat shinkhams topmorning10| with his coexes he was
not the same man)v4| and his |2broadawake2| bedroom suite |9(our boys, as our Byron called
them)9| were up and |3afoot crosstown |aasnoop
ashufflea| |9from the hogshome they lovenaned The Barrel,9| cross
|aEblan's Ebblinn'sa| (7cold chilled7)
hamlet3| |8(their theirº routes and |astations restings
|bon their then
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superficiesb|a| curiously correspondent withº those linesº and puncta where our tubenny habenny metro |~manimetres
maniplumbs~| below the oberflake |~ununreadrounread & underrails
and~| stations at |~the this~| time of riding)8| to the
|4thrumming thrummings4| of a crewth fiddle |3which|9,
cremoaning and cronauning, levey grevey, |awippy wittya| and wevey, appy, leppy and playable,9| caressed the ears of
the subjects of King |8Saint8| Finnerty the Festive,º |awho, (7in
brick homes of their own and in their flavoryº fraiseberry beds,7) |9heeding hardly cry of honeyman,
sweetº lavender of or foyneboyne salmon alive,9| with
their |5priggish5| mouths all open |9for the larger appraisiation of this longawaited Messiagh of roaratorios9|, were
only halfpast |9asleep alsweeeep9|,ºa|3| and,º after
|9a brisk pause |shat a pawnbroking establishment for the |aprothetica| purpose of redeeming the
songster's truly admirable false teethsh| and9| a |3prolonged3| visit to a
|3publichouse house of call|9, fizz, the Old Sots'
Hole9| |9in at9| Cujas
|aRow Place |9inº the parish of Saint Cecily
within the liberty of Ceolmore9|a|3|, not a thousand |v4or
onev4| |2national2| leagues|9, that was, by Griffith's
valuation,º9| from the site of |3Parnell's statue the statue of Primewer Glasstone setting a match to the march of a
|5blank maker |a(lastº of the
|~8stewarts, peutêtre stewards
peut-être~|8|)a|5|,º3| where, the tale |3runs on rambles
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|v4on alongv4|3|, the trio |2of whackfolthediddlers2|
|v4were shortly wasv4| joined by a |3further
further-intentions-apply-tomorrowº3| casual and a decent sort |2of the hadbeen variety2| who had just
|3pocketed been |apocketing touchinga|3| the weekly
insult|3, phew itº,3| and all |5th
figblabbersº5| |10(who saith of noun?)10| had stimulants in the shape
of |v4fivev4| gee and gees stood by the
|3damn3| decent sorts sort after which |3stag luncheon
and a few ones more |a|b|v4justv4| to celebrate yesterdayb|, flushed with their firestufffosteredº friendship,a|3|
|2all the rascals2| came out of the licensed premises |3|a(Browneº
firsta|, the |aexecutive small |bp.s. ex-ex-executiveºb|a|
|v4in the sad rear of them, capahand, capahand in their sad rearv4| like a lady's |aP.S.
postscripta|: I want money. Pleasend.)º3| wiping their
|3mouth laughleaking |amouths
lipesa|3| on their |3sleeve
sleeves3|,º |9how the bouckaleens shout their roscan generally (seinn fion, seinn fion's
araun!),º9| |v4andv4| the
|9|+rhymers'+|9| world was |9|+with reason+|9| the
richer for a |3new halfpenny wouldbe3| ballad|8, toº the
balladeerº of which the world |9of |shcumannity
singingsh|9| owes a tribute for having placed on the |~planet a melomap
planet's melomap his lay~| of the vilest bogeyer |~of the but~| most attractionable avatar the
|~planet world~| has ever had to explain for8|.
|8⇒8| This|5, more krectly,º lubeenº
|9or |shfellow-me-liederº
sh|9|5| was first |2sung poured forth2|
|10where Riau Liviau riots and Coloº de Houdo humps,10|
|3|ato the fiddling of Delany, the decent sort who had stumbled out & was like his namesake when you seem to look at him,
|v4to thev4| stepjigging |v4added strains of his majesty the flute which,
Delany, the decent sort drew out of his hat, looking still more like his namesake as men noted the snowy crested curl amid his wild & moulting hairv4|a|3| under the shadow of the monument of the
|2dead shouldhavebeen2| legislator |8(Eleutheriodendron!
Spare,º |~wodeman woodmann~|,
spare!)8| to an overflow meeting |3of all the nations in Lenster3|
fullyfillingº the visional area and|9, as a singleminded
supercrowd,9| easily representative|9, what with masks, whet with
faces,9| of all sections and cross sections
|9(wineshop and cocoahouse poured out to brim up the broaching)9| of
|3the Irish our |aDublinese
liffeysideºa|3| people |8(to omitº mention of the mainland minority and such as had
wayfared viaº Watling, Ernin, Icknild and Stane:º inº chief a halted cockney car with its quotal of Hardmuth's hacks|~, a northern tory, a southern whig, an
eastanglian chronicler and a landwester guardian~|)8| ranging
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from slips of young |3Dublins dublinos3| |3from
Cutpurse Row3| |3with pocketed hands with their hands in
their kneepants3| |2having nothing |v4betterv4|
to do |abut |v4except thanv4|a| walk about2|
|3|x|v4withv4| their hands in their kneepants|9, sucking
airwhackers, weedulicet, jumbobricks,9|x|3| side by side with |3truant officers,3|
(7corporation bucket emergencymen in search of an honest crust three woollen balls and poplin in search of a
croust of pawn7) to busy professional gentlemen, a brace of palesmen |v4with dundrearies|9|+, nooning toward
Daly's,+|9|v4| |2fresh from |3snipeshooting snipehitting
|v4& andv4| mallardmissing3|
|ain ona| Rutland Heath2| |v4with dundrearies exchanging,
exchangingºv4| cold sneers, massgoing
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ladies |3from Hume Street3| in their chairs,º |9the bearers
baited,9| |2and some wandering |3pigs
|10hamalegs hamalags10|3| |v4from out ofv4| the adjacent
cloverfieldsº |5of Mosse's Gardens5|, an oblate father |3from
Skinner'sº Alley3|, bricklayers|3, a fleming
(7in tabinet7)|4,º fumant,4| with spouse and dog, an aged
|aman |v4barehead hammersmithv4|a| who had some
|achildren chisellersºa| by the handº, |9a bout of
cudgel players,9| |a|bsome not a fewb|
sheepº with the braxy,a| |v4three
twov4| bluecoat scholars, |atwo (7three
four7)a| broke gents out of Simpson's (7on the Rocks, |9a portly and a pert still tassing Turkey coffeeº and
orange shrub in Hickey'sº door,9| Peter Pim and Paul Fry and then Elliot and, O, Atkinson,7) suffering hell's delights from
|5the blains of5| their |5annuitants'5|
|9horns acorns9|,º3| |v4and so
onv4| not forgetting2| |3|aa deuce of dianas ridy for the hunt,a| a
|aparticularista| prebendary pondering on the |aRoman question roman easterºa|,
|athe tonsure question |v4& andv4| greek uniatesº, plunk
em,a|3| |9a lace lappet head or two or three |aor foura| from a
window,9| |v4one or two and so on down to a fewv4| |3good3|
old souls |9who,º |aas they were juiceda| after taking their pledge over at the
uncle's place, were9| |v4obviously evidentlyv4| under the spell of liquor
|v4|9from the wake of Tarry the Tailor9|,º a fair girl, a jolly |10postboy
postoboy10| thinking off three flagons andv4| |3|xone|5,º
|10a plumodrole,10| a halfsirº
(7from the weaver's almshouse7)5| who clings |a|v4&
andv4| clings |v4& andv4|
|10chatchatchat10| clingsa| to |v4the
her|5, a wholedam's,º5|v4| |acloudred cloudhueda|
|v4petticoat pittycoatºv4| as child, as curiolater, as Caoch O'Learyx|3|.
|5Word Theº wararrow5| |3went |v4poured wentv4|3| round|3, so it did |9(a nation wants a gaze)9|,º3| and the ballad,º |5printed5| |10on in the felibrine trancoped metre affectioned by Taiocebo, in his Casudas de Poulichinello Artahut, |astamped stumpstampadeda| on to10| a slip of |3blue paper |4blancowhite |ablancowfhite, blancovide anda|4|3| headed by |8a an excessively8| rough |3and red3| woodcut,º |5privately printed at the rimepress of Delville,5| soon fluttered |5its secret5| on |3white3| highway and |3brown3| byway to the rose of the winds |3and the |v4whispery blew of thev4| gaels,º3| from |3greenº3| |v4laneway archwayv4| to |3goldº3| lattice and from |3mouth black hand3| to |3pink3| ear|3, village crying to village,º3| |v4throughout throughv4| the five |3corners pussyfours3| of the united statesº of |3Ireland. Scotia |8Picta. Picta — andº he who denayesº it, may his hairs be rubbed in dirt!º8| |a|v4The chickpea would a rolling go whether our farmer would have it or no.v4|a|3|
|3|aAmid the plaudits of the rapsods |v4Amid a perfect downpour of plaudits among the
rapsods Toº the added strains |9(so peacifold)º9| of his majesty the flute|9, that
onecrooned king of |saunscrewments inscrewments|b, Piggott's purest,
ciello alsoliuto,b|sa|9| which |9Delaney Mr Delaney
|sa(Mr Delacey?)sa|, horn9|, anticipating a perfect downpour of plaudits among the rapsods,
|9drew piped9| out of his decentsoort hat, looking still more like his
|9purseyful9| namesake as men |10of Gaul10|
noted|10, but before of to sputabout,10| the
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snowycrested curl amoist |9his the leader's9| wild and moulting
hair,ºv4|a|3| |3|x|9“Ductor”º9| Hitchcock hoisted his fezzy
|acap fuzza| at bludgeon's height|9, signum to his
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companions of the chalice,º9| for |9“the Loud Fellow, boys”º and9|
“silentium in curia!”º |5(|v8the ourv8| maypole once more where
|ait hea| rose ofº old!)º5| and the canto was chantied
|v4near there|9, chorussedº and christened,º9|
byv4| the old tollgate|9, Saint Annona's Street and Church9|.x|3|
|8⇒8| |v4So Andv4| around the |v4land this lannº thev4| rann it |v4ran rannv4| and this is the rann that Hosty made.º |9Spoken. Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards, viersified and piersified,º may the treeth we tale of live in stoney. Here linesº the refrains of. |aSome vote him Vike, some mote him Mike, some dub him Llyn and Phin while others hail him Lug, Bug, Dan,º Lop, Lex, Lax, Gunne or Guinn. Some apt him Arth, some bapt him Barth, Coll, Noll, Soll, Will, Wellº, Wall,º but I parse him Persse O'Reilly else he's called no name at all. |bAll together. Together.b|a|9|
|v4⇑v4| |v4Sure leave Arrah, |alave leavea|v4| it to Hosty, frosty Hosty, leave it to Hosty for he's the |v4man mannv4| to rhyme the rann, the rann, the rann,º the king of all wrannsº. |v4So:v4| |3Have you here? |9(Someº ha)9| Have we where? |9(Someº hant)9| Have you hered? |9(Othersº do)9| Have we whered? |9(Othersº dont)9| It's |v4coming cummingv4|! It'sº |v4bromming brummingv4|! The clip, the clop!º |9(All cla) |saGlass crash.sa|9| |v4the (blank THE (klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrottygraddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!)ºv4|3|
|3|xBALLAD OF PERSSE O'REILLYº
(as sung by Phoblacht)ºx|3| |7|+
Music by O. Gianni! blank Words by A. Hames¡º+|7|
|9Ardite, arditi!
Music cue.9|
|v4Sh sh sh! Sh sh sh! Sh! Sh! Sh!ºv4|
|5((MUSIC INSERT))5|
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Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
How he fell with a roll and a rumble
And |3lay low curled up3| like Lord |v4Oliver Olofav4|
Crumple
By the |3back butt3| of the Magazine Wallº,
|9(Chorus)9| Of the Magazine Wallº,
|3Magazine wall? Hump, helmet and all?º3|
He was one time our king of the castleº
Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnipº
And from Green Streetº he'll be sent by order of His Worship
To the penal jail of Mountjoy,º
|9(Chorus)9| To the jail of Mountjoy.º
Jail him and joy.
He (7had schemes by the score was |8father fafafather8| of all
schemes7) for to bother us
Slow coaches and |2immaculate2| contraceptives for the populace,º
Mare's milk for the sick, seven dry Sundays a week,
Openair love and |5religious religion's5| reform,
|9(Chorus)9| And religious reform,
Hideous in form.
Arrah, why, says you, couldn't he manage it?
I'll go bail, my |3big fine3| dairyman darling,
Like the bumping bull of the Cassidys
All your butter is in your horns.
|9(Chorus)9| His butter is in his horns.
Butter his horns!
|s6⇒|12⇑12| |12——12|s6|
|9(Repeat)9| Hurrah there, Hosty, frosty Hosty, |3change that shirt on yo ye|9,!º9|3| |9rhyme Rhymeº9| the rann|3,3| the king of all ranns!º
|s6|a⇑a| |a——a|s6|
We had |9chaw chaw9| chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chickenpox and china chambers
Universally (7supplied provided7) by this softsoapingº salesman.
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Small wonder |3Here Comes Everybody He'll Cheat (7blank
E'erawan7)3| our local lads nicknamed him
When Chimpden first took the floor
|9(Chorus)9| (7And he took the floor, With his bucketshop store7)
(7O'er and o'er Down Bargainweg, Lower7).
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So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous
But soon we'll bonfire all his trash (7and his trumpery, tricks and trumpery7)
And 'tisº short till Sheriffº Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited company
With the bailiff's |+8bum bom+|8| at the door,
|9(Chorus)9| (7With a bum |8Bumbum Bimbam8|7) at the door.
(7He'll Then he'll7) bum no more.
Sweet bad luck on the waves |2brought washed2| to our island
The hooker of that hammerfast viking
And (7God's Gall's7) curse on the day when Eblana Bayº
Saw his black and tan man-o'-war,º
|9(Chorus)9| Saw his man-o'-warº
On the harbour bar.
Where from? roars Poolbeg. Cookingha'pence, he bawls,º |2Donnezmoi scampitle,º2| wick |2a
wipin' faminy an wipin' fampinyº2|
Fingal MacOscar Onesimeº Bargearse Boniface
|2That's my true old Norwegian moniker
For I'm a true old Norwegian cod
He's a true Norwegian cod.
Egregious Cod. Thok's min |3cammelhole gammelhole3| Norveegickesº moniker
Og as ay are at |3cammelhole gammelholeº3| Norveegickesº cod.
|9(Chorus)9| A Norwegian cameloldº cod.
He is, begod.2|
Lift it, Hosty, lift it, ye devil ye! Upº with the rann,º the rhyming rann!
It was during some freshwaterº garden pumping
Or, according to the |2Newsletter Nursing Mirror2|, while admiring the monkeys
That our heavyweight heathen |3Humphrey Humpharey3|
Made bold a maid to woo.º
|9(Chorus)9| And he |3A maid he would woo (7Hoo Woohoo7), what'll she doo!3|
|3And wooed her too (7She The general7) lost her
maidenloo!3|
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He ought to blush for himself, the old |3hayhaired hayheaded3| philosopher,º
(7To For to7) go and shove himself that way on top of her.º
Begob, he's the crux of the catalogue
Of our |3pathological antediluvial3| zoo,
|9(Chorus)9| |3Our illogical zoo. Messrs Billing and Coo.3|
|3Who woos in the zoo? Noah's larks, good as noo.3|
He was |2jaunting joulting2| |3beyond by the by
Wellinton's3| monument
Our (7rotarian rotorious7) |3hippopotamus
(7hippopotamuns hippopopotamuns7)3|
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When some bugger let down the |2backdoor backtrap2| of the omnibus
And he caught his death of fusiliers,
|9(Chorus)9| |3His death of fusiliers. With his rent in his rears.3|
Give him six years.
'Tis sore pity for his |5two innocent5| poor children
But look out for his missus legitimate!º
When that frew gets a grip of old Earwicker
Won't there be earwigs on the green?º
|9(Chorus)9| Big earwigs on the green,
|3All over the green? The largest ever youº seen.3|
|9Suffoclose! Shikespower! Seudodanto! Anonymoses!9|
Then we'll have a free trade (7Gaels'7) band and mass meeting
For to sod the brave son of |5Scandinavia Scandiknaveryº5|
And we'll bury him down in Oxmanstown
Along with the devil and Danes,
|9(Chorus)9| With the (7devil and deaf and dumb7) Danes,
|2Devil's own Danes. And all their remains.2|
And not all the king's men nor his horses
Will resurrect his corpus
For there's no true spell |2between Connacht and hell in Connacht or hell2|
|9(bis)9| That's able to raise a Cain.