^|3|aAs the lion in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile^a| It may be that the besieged ^|abethought bedreamt^a| him still ^|aand solely^a| of ^|athat lililith those lililiths^a| undeveiled, which had for—- him^|a, gone for aye,^a| and knew not the watchful treachers at his wake, and ^|athere theirs^a| to stay. It may be that he reglimmed? presaw? the fields of wheat and fields of wheat where corngold Ysit? shamed & shone.^3| It may be that with his deepseeing insight (had not wishing often been but good time wasted) ^|3petrified within his patriarchal shamanah^|a, ^|bbroadstone 'bove city broadsteyne 'bove citie^b|,^{a|3| |3}H.C.E. he, conscious blank^3| prayed ^|3o as he sat on anxious seat^3| all through that three and a half hour's agony ^|3in of^3| silence ^|3in profundo malorum^3| with unfeigned charity that his wordwounder^|3, a ^|atype born engels^a| who would go on his belly anywhere for milk, music or married women,^3| might^|3, mercy to providential benevolence's astuteness,^3| unfold into the first of a distinguished dynasty ^|3of his posteriors^3|, his most besetting of ideas ^|3(after his 12 predominant passions)^3| being the formation, as in more favoured climes, of a truly criminal stratum, thereby at last eliminating ^|3from the oppidum^3| much general delinquency from all classes and masses with directly derivative decasualisation.

^|3Let us leave theories there & return to things here. Now hear.^3| The coffin^|3, ^|afaced feets^a| to the east,^3| was to turn in handy later ^|3materially effecting the cause^3|. ^|3And^3| This is the ^|3how of that howe^3|. ^|3On the occasion of his liberal unionists' jubilee^3| A number of ^|3conservative^3| public bodies, before voting themselves by a fit and proper resolution once for all out of ^|3plotty^3| existence, made him ^|3(while his body still existed)^3| a present of a ^|3watery^3| grave in ^|3Moyelta ^|aof the best lough Neagh pattern then as much in demand as the isle of Man is now^a| in^3| a fair state of repair ^|3enriched by ancient woods and old knolls and a chatty troutbeck, chatty to any ^|aWill or Walt^a| who would ^|aangle ongle^a| her ^|aas Izaak did with the tickle of his rod and watch her waters. ^|b(May their quilt lay light now on his somnolent form ^|cWho ^|dthere now for you^d| lies his last, ^|dby the wrath of God,^d|c| like ^|cthe great^c| Hun in the bed of his ^|ctrueblue^c| Donawhu!)^{b|a|3| |3}wherein mid the anfractuosities of which^3| the remains of an epileptic were to have been laid to rest as soon as he was regarded as dead but which nobody living had ever been man enough to dig still less occupy. This wastohavebeen ^|3grave underground heaven^|a, first in the west,^a|3| he openly blasted ^|3to sternboard^3| by means of a ^|3landmine hydromine system the Sowan & Beltiny^3| exploded from a bombingpost ^|3up ahoy^3| of ^|3fourteen hundred eleven hundred and thirtytwo^3| feet ^|3circiter^3| in his aerial
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torpedo^|3, Auton Dynamon,^3| contacted with the expectant minefield by tins of improved ammonia lashed to her ^|3sides ^|ashieldplated^a| gunwale^3| and fused into tripup ^|3wires cables ^|aslipping through tholes &^a|3| playing down ^|3from the conning tower^3| into the ground battery fuseboxes^|3, as different as clocks and keys since nobody appeared to have the right time,^3| and afterwards carefully lined the ^|3ferroconcrete^3| result ^|3(a perfect fit, as it turned out)^3| with ^|3rotproof^3| bricks and mortar, ^|3|afasted fassed^a| to fossed,^3| so encouraging other useful public bodies ^|3such as the Guild of merchants of the Staple^3| to present ^|3unto^3| him over and above that ^|3with^3| a stone slab ^|3with the usual address of valediction: We have done with you, Mr Herewhipit^3|. ^|3Skidoo!^{3| |3}Show^3| Coffins, windingsheets, cinerary urns ^|3liealoud brasses, snuffchests, poteentubbs^3| and for that matter any kind of funeral bric ^|3à to^3| brac would naturally follow in the ordinary course enabling ^|3him that roundtheworlder^3| to live ^|3safeathomely^3| all the days of his life of opulence, ^|3whaling away the whole of the while, ^|xfrom grosskopp to megapod)^x|3| embalmed, rich in death anticipated.

The other spring offensive ^|3on the heights of Abraham^3| may have come about all quite by accident. ^|3Unso had not been three monads in his ^|awet^a| grave when faction, dreyfooted as ever, began to ramp, ramp, ramp blank^3| From both ^|3Celtiberian^3| camps (^|3granted at the outset granting at the onset^3| for the sake of argument that men on both sides^|3, bluemen and pillfaced, moors^3| during the ferment^|3, with the pope or on the pope,^3| had^|3, moors or letts,^3| grand ideas^|3, granted^3|) all conditions were drawn ^|3into the conflict tooward their Bellona's Black Bottom ^|a(once w Woolwhite's Waltz — ohiboh! how becrimed, becursekissed & bedumbtoit!)^a|3|, some for lack of proper feeding ^|3in youth^3|, others already caught in the act of ^|3carving slicing out^3| honourable careers for ^|3self and^3| family ^|3& carvers ^|ain conjunction^a|3|, and, if emaciated enough, the person garotted may have suggested ^|3incarnate whiggery to whomever took the ham of the other low cirque waggery^3|, nay, even the ^|3grand first^3| old ^|3whig ^|awhigger ^|bwagger wugger^b|a|3| himself in the flesh ^|3incarnadined^3| when falsesighted by the ^|3wouldbe burglar ifsuchhewas bully on the hill^3|, a tory of the tories, for there circulated ^|3fairly freely freely fairly among ^|athe his^a| opposition^3| the feeling that in so hibernating ^|3Earwicker Massa Eewicka^3|, who previous to that semidetached life had been known ^|3of barmicidal days^|a, cook said, between soup & savoury,^a|3| to eat his own length in rainbow trout, ^|3as no man of woman born,^3| was, like the salmon of his ladderleap, ^|3all this time of totality^3| secretly feeding on his own misplaced fat.

^|3Ladies ^|athose times did not disdain did not disdain those times^{a| |a|b}of the 1^st city^b| when a frond was a friend ^|bin need idneed^b|a| to carry their soil to the erdball. ^|a|bVenuses were ^|cguffawably cheap gigglibly temptatrix^c|, adonises ^|cvulcanoes vulcans^c| guffawably eruptious and the whole wives world frockful of fickles.^{b| |b}When Fact,^b| any human inyan you liked ^|bany erenoon or after^b| would take her godkin ^|bout^b|, or an even pair of ^|bhem him^b|, and prettily pray with him, or with hem even, ^|beveryhe to her taste^b| long for luck, tapette and tape ^|bbetter petter^b| and take pettest of all, but the deer ^|bknows knowed^b| who she'd marry.^a|3|

Kate Strong, a widow, did all the scavenging from good King ^|3Charles' golden days Hamlaugh's gulden doyne^3| onwards but her lean besom cleaned but sparingly and her bare statement reads that, there being no macadamised sidewalks ^|3in on^3| those old ^|3R.I.C. days ^|anecropolitan nekropolitan^a| nights^3| barring a ^|3footpath footbatter ^|abordered with speedwell, white clover and sorrel a wood knows,^a|3| which left off where the plaintiff was struck, she left, as scavengers who will be scavengers will, a filthdump near the dogpond in Phoenix park ^|3(at her time called Finewell's Keepsacre ^|abut later ^|btautaubaptised tautaubaptossed^b| Pat's Purge^a|)^3| all over which fossil footprints, bootmarks, fingersigns, elbowdints, kneecaves, breechbowls ^|3a.s.o.^3| were all successively traced of a very ^|3involved involving^3| description. ^|3|aShe pulls a glowing ^|bwhat thou if homelike,^b| picture for us of old dumplin ^|bas she nosed it^b| with droppings of biddies, dead pushies, rotten witchawubbles ^|band festering rubbage —^b|, if not worse, sending germs ^|bgleefully in^b| through the smithereen panes.^a| What safer place ^|athan such castrament^a| to hide a book from Thursmen Thursmen's ^|aeyes ^|bbrandyhands brandihands^b|a| or a loveletter from ^|alost{sup>{small>|b, lostfully hers,^b| that would be lust^a| on Ma than there where blank ended and race began. ^|aand by four hands of forethought the first babe of reconcilement is laid in its last cradle of hume sweet hume. Give over it. And no more of it. So pass the pick for Child sake. O men! ^|bFor hear has ^|cthe highest allhighest has^c| spoken: and ^|cthe his nuptial^c| eagles have sharpened their beaks of prey: and ^|call every^c| murphyl man, pome by pome, falls back into ^|cthe tureen ^|dhis this^d| terrine^c|: as it was let it be. Says he.^{b| |b}It is as though the ^|cstreamlettes of^c| obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew^|c, windingly obedient,^c| at her ^|crude^c| word: lave that bloody stone ^|cbe as it is,^c| go around be the bach of the minister's, What are you doing you dirty minx & ^|cthat his^c| big ^|ctree treeblock^c| way in your path, take that barrel back to where you got it, MacShane's, & you go the way your old one went, blank^{b|a|3| |3}And^3| It was ^|3right hard by the howe goes^3| there on this ^|3resurfaced spot desoluted spot, since rupestric then, that now is resurfaced,^3| in the saddle
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of ^|3the Brennan's^3| pass^|3,^3| miles from true civilisation^|3, where livland ^|amears ^|byontide^b| meared^a| with the wilde, and saltlea with flood,^3| plainly^|3,^3| that the ^|3attacker attackler^3|, though under medium, with truly native pluck ^|3tackled engaged^3| him whom^|3, for plunder sake,^3| he mistook ^|3in the heavy rain^3| to be somebody else to whom he bore some facial resemblance, making use of sacrilegious language to the effect that he would ^|3have his life cano cannonise the b—y b—r's life out of him^3| and lay him out ^|3contritely^3| as soon as ^|3he the b—r^3| had his ^|3night^3| prayers said at the same time catching ^|3hold ^|aholt holst^a|3| of ^|3a long an oblong^3| bar he had and with which he usually broke ^|3furniture furnitures^3| he rose the stick at him. They struggled for some considerable time ^|3round the booksafe^|a, fighting like purple top and ^|btipperary tipperuhry^b| swede,^a|3| and in the course of the tussle the ^|3masked taller^3| man said to the other ^|3who was carrying the ^|awarm worm^a|3|: Let me go, ^|3Pat ^|aPateen Paudheen^a|3|, I hardly knew you. Later on the same ^|3man mask^{3| |3}(or a different ^|aaspect ^|band younger^b| ham^a| of the same ^|aman him^a|)^3| asked with ^|3an ugly grin a very eggly chew-chin-grin ^|aas if he forgot something^a|3|: Was six ^|3pounds victorios^3| fifteen ^|3pigeon^3| in round numbers ^|3taken off takee offa^3| you, ^|3tell us tell he me^3|, ^|3Strongfella,^3| by ^|3anyone three or pickypocky ten to^3| four months ^|3ago ^|abehindside behindaside^a|3|? There was some further severe ^|3mauling tries to convert for the best part of an hour^3| and ^|3now^3| a wooden affair in the shape of a ^|3Wembley Webley^3| fell from the intruder who thereupon became friendly and wanted to know, laying all joking ^|3and knobkerries^3| aside, if his chance companion, who ^|3still had the fender stuck still to the invention of his strongbox^3|, happened to have the ^|3loose loots^3| change of a ten pound ^|3note crickler^3| about him at the moment ^|3as addling that^3|, ^|3if hap^3| so, he would pay the six ^|3pounds vics^3| odd back^|3, do you see?,^3| out of that for what was taken on ^|3him the man of samples^|a, ^|xfor conscience money,^x| do you follow me?,^a|3| on last ^|3July Yuny or Yuly^3|. To this the other^|3, who had mummed and mauled up to that, rather amusedly^3| replied: ^|3Woowoo^3| Would you be greatly surprised^|3, Hill,^3| to learn that as it so happens I honestly have not such a thing as the ^|3loose change ^|aloots change loo as the least chance^a|3| of a tenpound ^|3|anote crackler^a|3| anywhere about me at the present ^|3moment mohomoment^3| but I believe I can see my way ^|3as you suggest^3| to advance you something like four and sevenpence between hopping and ^|3trotting tropping^3| which you might just as well have to buy ^|3whisky J.J. and S with^3|. At the ^|3mention of whisky first wind of gaygay and whiskwigs^3| the ^|3gunman became gunman's wick ears pricked up^|a, strike him pink,^a|3| strangely calm and ^|3|aforthwith forthright^a|3| said he would go good to him some day yet and remarking, ^|3in languidoily,^3| apparently much more highly pleased than tongue could tell ^|3with this chanceº of a lifetime^{3| |3|a}at the by this^a| foretaste of redbank pearlmothers & the boy ^|ato wash down which he would feed to himself in the Red Cow at Tallaght and then in the Good Woman at Ringsend and after her in Conway's ^|bTavern Inn^b| at Blackrock and, first to fall, cursed be all, ^|bwhere appetite wd keenest be^b| at Adam & Eve's Tavern^a|3|: You stunning little Southdowner! ^|3|aWho the hellelse!^a| I'd know you anywhere!, ^|aDeclaney, ^|bbe your blanche patch,^b|a| let me ^|atrucefully^a| tell you!^3| Goalball I've struck this day of days, by golly! ^|3You My hat, you^3| have some bully German grit, ^|3Southdowner Sundowner^3|!: ^|3he went With that the queer mixture exchanged the ^|akiss of peace pax in an embrace ^|bor poghue paxy^b| as practised between brothers of the same breast, hillelulia, killelulia,^a| and levanted^3| off ^|3over the assback^3| with the four and seven ^|3in danegeld^3| and his ^|3trusty humoral^3| hurlbat or other uncertain weapon of lignum vitae, picked up, to keep some ^|3business crowplucking^3| appointment while
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^|3the man this poor delany whom he^3| left ^|3behind ^|abehind him^a|3| along with the fender ^|3behind^3|, who bore up wonderfully under all of it with a ^|3whole^3| number of plumsized ^|3bruises contusiums ^|aplus ^|ba alasalah^b| bruised coccyx^a|3| all over him, reported the occurrence ^|3the best way he could, giving the military salute,^3| in justifiable hope that some lotion or a fomentation of poppyheads would be exhibited to the parts at the nearest watch house in Vicar street, his face all covered with nonfatal mammalian blood as proof positive of the seriousness of his character and that he was bleeding from the nose, mouth and two ears while some of his hair had been pulled off his head ^|3by Colt^3| though otherwise his allround health appeared to be middling enough ^|3as it proved most fortunate^3| that not one of the two hundred and six bones in his ^|3body corso^3| was a whit the worse for the ^|3wear whacking^3|.

Now ^|3leaving clashing ash, brawn and muscle and brassmade ^|aagainst to oust^a| earthenborn,^3| coming on gradually to the question of unlawfully obtaining a pierced ^|3fender paraflamme^3| and fireguard there crops up the far more salient point of the political leanings of ^|3a person our forebear ^|xof the bottlefiend^x|3| who, when mistakenly ambushed, and as near as made no matter to being revolvered offhand when the man with the Peter the Painter wanted to hole him, ^|3was solely he was consistently^3| exercising one of the most primary liberties of the ^|3pacific^3| subject ^|3without intent to annoy either^3| by ^|3walking circulating^3| along one of our ^|3public thoroughfares unprohibited thrufahrts^|a|b, to walk, Wellington Park Road, ^|cwith the curb onder his ^|doxter auxter^d|,^c|b| or in the act of taking place upon a public a seat^|b, ^|ca both^c| highly permissible town ^|cpursuit pursuits^c|, ^|cacta legitima plebeia,^c|b|a|3| in the broadest of ^|3daylight dayshine^|a, ^|bright^b| jollywell pleased at having other people's weather^a|3|.

^|3But to return to the Atlantic^3| As if that were not to be enough for anybody but little headway, if any, was made in solving this wasnottobe crime conundrum when a ^|3countryman child of Maam^3|, Festy King, who gave an address in ^|3Joyce's country old plamas^|a, beyond Mayo of the Saxons,^a|3| in the heart of a ^|3wellfamed foulfamed^3| poteen district, was subsequently brought up ^|3on the calends of Mars^3| on an improperly framed indictment of both the counts. When the prisoner, soaked in methylated, appeared in dry dock wearing a ^|3fight shirt ^|aa souwester^a| and^3| policeman's ^|3corkscrew^3| trousers^|3, all out of the true^3| as he had purposely torn up all his ^|3cymtrymanx^3| clothes in the cell, ^|3alleging deposing ^|afor his exution ^|bin the royal Irish vocabulary^b|a|3| that ^|3they the whole suet^3| had fallen off him unaccountably ^|3while he was attempting to stick fire to himsell^3|, It was attempted by the crown to show that King^|3, impersonating a climbing boy,^3| rubbed ^|3some dirt ^|asome filth any luvial mud^{a|3| |3}claneturf clanetourf^3| on his face as the best means of
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disguising himself and was ^|3at to^3| the fair^|3, please the Rainmaker,^{3| |3}in Mudford^3| of a ^|3Monday Thoorsday^{3| |3}under an assumed name of Tykingfest picked out of the ^|atelafun tellafun^a| book^{3| |3}The gathering, convened to enab help the Irish muck to look his ^|abrother^a| Dane in the face, was of a scattery kind,^3| attended^|3, despite the deluge,^3| by large numbers ^|3of the sportinclined^{3| |3}allegedly^3| with a pig ^|3(unlicensed)^{3| |3}and a hyacinth^3| when the animal ate some of the doorpost, King ^|3later^3| selling ^|3it the gentleman ratepayer^3| because she ate a whole lot of the woodwork of her sty^|3, Qui sta Troia,^3| in order to pay off six ^|3pounds doubloons^3| fifteen arrears of ^|3the villain's his ^|athe villain's not the rambler's^a|3| rent. Remarkable evidence was given ^|3anon^3| by an eye, ear, nose and throat witness ^|3W- P- ^|adescribed in the calendar as a word painter,^a|3| who ^|3smiled and^3| stated ^|3to his eliciter^3| that he was pleased to remember the ^|3fifth filth^3| of November which was going to ^|3go down decemb^3| in the ^|3annals ephemerides^3| of profane history and that one thing which ^|3wd^3| particularly struck a person of ^|3his such^3| sorely trained observational powers ^|3as Sam, him & Moffafty^{3| |3}the striking thing about it^3| was that he ^|3saw or heard Pat was patrified to see, hear ^|ataste^a| & smell ^|a|bat as^b| his time of night^{a|3| |3}on Straggle Street^{3| |3}how Hyacinth^3| O'Donnallº ^|3B.A., a mixer,^3| with part of a dungfork ^|3|aon the fair green^a| sought to^{3| |3}beat sack, ^|asock^a| stab^3| and murder singlehanded another two of the Kings, ^|3Simon D. Gush MacGale^3| and Roaring ^|3Peter O'Brien^3|, ^|3both of no address, & in noncommunicables,^3| between whom bad blood existed on the head of trespass ^|3of fowl on the bull ^|aor because they could not say meace, meathe^a|3|. ^|3The litigants, ^|alocal^a| kingsmen & donalds, were egged on by supporters in the shape of bitterwomen waving scarlet petties and shouting^3| There were cries ^|3from the thicksets^3| in court ^|3and on the bohernabreena ^|afrom the MacDublins^a|3| of: Produce ^|3O'Donnell ^|aO'Don_unread O'Donner^a|3|!: ^|3Mind Messer, the ^|aman ban^a| from Banagher, Mick, sir!^3| but it oozed out in crossexamination ^|3of the casehardened testies^3| that when and where ^|3that knife of knives^3| the ^|33 partied^3| ambush was laid^|3, roughly speaking ^|a|baround halftime twixt dusk & dawn^b|, near the only ^|btree abfalltree^b| in the land,^a|3| there was not as much light ^|3from the widowed moon^3| as would dim a child's altar ^|3|xWhether he was sure of his ^|aname names ^|bin this King ^|c& countryman^c| business^b|a|? That he was particularly so. It was O'Somebody? Quite. ^|aHow did he arrive at the B.A. That it was ^|bfair witness^b| like his poll.^a| A crossgrained person with odd ears eyes^|a, projecting ears,^a| & a twitcherous mouth? He would be. ^|aNot unintoxicated? ^|bAs drunk Drunk^b| as a fishup.^{a| |a}The grazing right expired with the expiry of the goat's sire, if they were not mistaken? That he He could not exactly say but his mother had the receipt for the price of the coffin & she could tell them.^{a| |a}How it struck him? Like the crack that bruck the bank at Multifarnham. Badol — — — That would do.^a|x|3| and ^|3a new complexion was put on the matter when,^3| to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench, the first King of all, ^|3Pegger^3| Festy, as soon as the outer layer of ^|3dirt ^|aany luvial mud mistuck muck^a|3| had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared ^|3in a ^|aburst loudburst^a| of poesy^3| through his ^|3Brythonic^3| interpreter ^|3whereas take notice^3| on ^|3the relics of^3| his oath ^|3be the bones of the ^|abouchal storybouchal^a| that was ate by the be Cliopatrick (the sow)^3| and before God and all their honours ^|3if live ^|aturkeys thurkees^a| followed him sure that was no theft and^3| that he did not fire a stone either before or after he was born up to that day and this ^|3sockdologer^3| he had the neck to ^|3supplement endorse ^|awith the head bowed on him ^|bover his outturned noreaster^b|a|3| by postasserting ^|3to his lipreaders^3| with a justbeencleaned barefacedness^|3, abeam of moonlight soap,^3| in the same ^|3native language trelawney^3| what he would impart ^|3to Jesus & gentlemen of the jury^3| that he might never ask to see sight or light of this world or the other world or any other world ^|3|aas true as he was in that jackabox that ^|bday minute^b|a| or wind the ^|ainexousthaustible^a| wassailhorn with our heroes in Warhorror^3| if ever he up ^|3with or lave^3| a hand to take or throw the sign of a mortal stick or stone at man, yoelamb or salvation army either before or after being baptised down to that most holy and ^|3ever^3| blessed hour. ^|3Awham. Here, upon ^|ahis the ^|b½ kneed^b| kithogue^a| attempting ^|akithoguishly^a| to make the sign of the Roman Godhelic faix outbroke much ^|alaughter laughters^a|, in which^|a, under the mollification of methaglin,^a| the ^|awitness testifier ^|breluctantly^b|a| joined.^3|