With deepseeing insight ^|ahad not wishing been good time wasted^a| he may have prayed in silence that his wordwounder might become the first of a ^|along distinguished^a| dynasty, his ^|amost^a| cherished idea being the formation, as in more favoured climes, of a truly criminal class, thereby eliminating much general delinquency from all classes & masses

The coffin was to come in handy later. & in this way. A number of public bodies presented him made him a present of a grave which nobody had been able to dig much less to occupy, it being all rock.

This he blasted and then carefully
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lined the result with bricks & mortar, encouraging the public bodies to present him over & above that with a stone slab.

The other spring offensive ^|aseems to have been may have come about^a| all quite by accident, ^|a|bthough granted^b|, of course ^|bfor the sake of argument^b| men on both sides had grand ideas^a|. All conditions were drawn into the conflict, some for lack of proper feeding, others already carving hon^bleº careers for themselves and, if emaciated, the person garotted may have suggested whiggery or the grand old whig in ^|aperson the flesh^a| when dimsighted by the wouldbe burglar, a tory of the tories., for there circulated
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pretty clearl freely the feeling that in so hibernating Earwicker was feeding on his own fat. Kate Strong, a widow, did all the scavenging in from good King Charles' days but she cleaned sparingly and her statement was that, there being no ^|afootpaths at the time macadamised sidewalks barring a footpath which left off where the man was struck ^|bin those RIC days^b|a| she left^|a, as scavengers will,^a| a filth dump near the dogpond in the park on which ^|aboot & bootmarks, elbowdints, ^|bfossil^b| breechbowls, kneecaves,^a| fingerprints were ^|aall successively^a| found of a very involved description. ^|aThere It was on that resurfaced spot^a| evidently the attacker, though under medium, with truly native pluck tackled him whom he took to be blank^|asaying he wd have his life & lay him out & ^|bmade use of sacriligeous language &^b|a| catching hold of a long bar he had & with which he ^|ausually^a| broke furniture. ^|aThe struggle went on They struggled^a| for a considerable time and in the course of it the masked man said to the other: Let me go, Pat. Later on the same man asked: Was six pounds fifteen taken from you by anyone two or three months ago? There was severe mauling and then a wooden affair in the shape of a ^|arevolver blank^a| fell from the intruder who thereupon became friendly & wanted to know whether his chance companion who had the fender happened to have the change of a ten pound note because, if so, he would pay the six pounds odd out of that for what
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lost last summer. The other then said: Would you be surprised to hear that I have not such a thing ^|aas the change of a ten pound note^a| but I am able to ^|asee my way to^a| give you ^|a|bat for the^b| present^a| four and 7 pence to buy whisky. At the mention of whisky the wouldbe burglar became calm ^|aand left the place said he wd go good to him ^|bremarking ^|cgleefully^c|: You ^|cplucky stunning^c| little Southdowner! You have some pluck, Southdowner! This is my goalball I've goalball, I've struck, this day!^b| He then went away with the four & seven and his hurlbat^a| while the fenderite ^|awho bore up under all of it ^|bwith a no of bruises on him^b|a| reported the occurrence ^|ato the ^|bVicar Street^b| watch house^a|, his face being all covered with ^|anonfatal^a| blood as a ^|agood^a| proof that he was bleeding from the nose, mouth & ears while some of his hair had been pulled off his head though otherwise his ^|aallround^a| health was ^|agood middling^a| enough. As regards the ^|afender pierced fender & fireguard^a| the question of unlawfully obtaining is subsidiary to the far more capital point of the political bias of a person who, when mistakenly ^|amolested ambushed^a|, was simply exercising one of the most primary liberties of the subject by walking along a public thoroughfare in broad daylight.

As if that would not do ^|abut little headway was made when^a| a countryman Festy King who gave an address in ^|aMonaghan Joyce Country ^|bin the heart of a wellfamed poteen district^b|a| was subsequently brought up on an ^|aimproper improperly framed^a| indictment of both counts. It was attempted to show that ^|ahaving come to rubbed some dirt on his face to disguise himself he was at^a|
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the door fair ^|aof a Monday^a| with a pig the animal ate some of the doorpost, King selling it because it ate the woodwork ^|aof off^a| her sty. An eyewitness said ^|ahe remembered the fifth of November ^|bwhich was going to go down in the annals of history^b| & one thing that particularly struck him was^a| he saw or heard ^|aunquestionably^a| a man named Pat O'Donnell beat ^|a& murder^a| another of the Kings, Simon, but where the ambush was laid there was not as much light as wd ^|alight dim^a| a child's altar and to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench, the first King, Festy, declared ^|athrough his interpreter^a| on his oath & before God & their honours that he did not fire a stone either before or after he was born up to that day & this he ^|asupplemented had the neck to supplement^a| in the same language by postasserting that ^|ahe wd impart^a| he might never ^|aask to^a| see sight or light of this world or the next ^|aworld ^|bor any other world^b|a| if ever he took or threw the sign of a stone either before or after being baptised up to that blessed ^|a& holy^a| hour.