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As the lion in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile (shall Ariuz forget Arioun or Boghas the baregams of the
Marmarazalles from Marmeniere?) it may be, tots wearsense full a naggin in twentyg have
sigilposted what in our brievingbust,º the besieged bedreamt him stilº and solely of those lililiths undeveiled which had undone him, gone for ageº, and knew
not the watchful treachers at his wake, andº theirs to stay. Fooi, fooi, chamermissies! Zeepyzoepy, larcenlads!
Zijnzijn Zijnzijnº! It may be, we moest ons hasten selves te declareer it, that he reglimmed? presaw? the fields of
heat and yields of wheat where corngold Ysit? shamed and shone. It may be, we habben to upseek a bitty door our
good township's courants want we knew't, that with his deepseeing insight (had not wishing oftebeenº
but good time wasted), º withinº his patriarchal
shamanah, broadsteyne 'bove citie (Twillby! Twillby!) heº conscious of enemies, a kingbilly whitehorsed in a Finglas mill, prayed, as he
sat on anxious seat,º (kunt ye neat gift mey toe bout a peer saft eyballds!) during that three and a hellof hours' agony of silence,
exº profundis malorum, and bred withº unfeigned charity that hisº
wordwounderº (an englesº to the teeth who nomened Nash of Girahashº would go anyold whereº in the weeping world on his mottled belly (the rab, the kreeponskneed!) for milk, music or
married missusses)º mightº mercy to providential benevolence'swho hates prudenciesº astutenessº unfold into the first of
a distinguished dynasty of his posteriors,
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blackfaced connemaras not of the fold but elder children of his household, his most besetting of ideasº (pace his
twolve predamanant passions) being the formation, as in more favoured climes, where the Meadow of Honey is guestfriendly and the Mountain of Joy receives, of a truly criminal stratum,
Ham's cribcracking yeggs, thereby at last eliminating fromº all classes and masses with directly derivative decasualisation: sigarius (sic!) vindicat urbes terrorum (sicker!): and so, to mark a
bankº taal she arter, the obedienceº of the citizens elp the ealth of the ole.
Now gode. Let us leave theories there and return to here's here. Now hear. 'Tis gode again. The teak coffin, Pughglasspanelfitted, feets to the east, was to turn inº later, and pitly patly near the porpus, materially effecting the cause. And this, liever, is the thinghowe. Any number of conservative public bodies, through a number of select and other committees having power to add to their number, before voting themselves and himself, town, port and garrison, by a fit and proper resolution, following a koorts order of the groundwet, once for all out of plotty existence,º as a forescut, so you maateskippey might to you cuttinrunner on a neuw pack of klerds, made him, while his body still persisted, their present of a protem grave in Moyelta of the best Lough Neagh pattern,º then as much in demand among misonesans as the Isle of Man today among limniphobes. Wacht even! It was in a fairly fishy kettlekerry, afterº the Fianna's foreman had taken his handful,º enriched with ancient woods and dear dutchy deeplinns mid which were an old knoll and a troutbeck, vainyvain of her osiery and a chatty sally with any Wilt or Walt who would ongle her as Izaak did to the tickle of his rod and watch her waters of her sillying waters ofº and there now brownº peater arrippleº (may their quilt gild lightly over his somnolulutentº form!)º Whoforyou lies his last, by the wrath of Bog, like the erst curst Hun in the bed of his treubleu Donawhu.
Best. This wastohavebeen underground heaven, or mole's paradise whichº was probably also an inversion of a phallopharos,º
intended to foster wheat crops and to ginderº upº tourist tradeº
(its architechtº, Mgr Peurelachasse,º having been obcaecated lest
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he should petrifake suchanevver while the contractorsº Messrs T. A. Birkettº and L. O.
Tuohallsº were made invulnerably venerable) firstº in the west, our misterbilder, Castlevillainous,º openly damned and blasted by means of a
hydromine, systemº Sowan and Beltingº, exploded from a reinvented T.N.T.
bombingpost up ahoy of eleven and thirtyº wingrests (circiter) to sternbooardº out of his aerial thorpeto, Auton Dynamon,
contacted with the expectant minefield by tins of improved ammoniaº lashed to her shieldplated
gunwale,º and fused into tripupcablesº, slipping through tholseº and playing down from the
conning tower into the ground battery fuseboxes, all differing as clocks from keys since nobody appeared to have the same time of beard, some saying by their Oorlog it was Sygstryggsº to nine, more holding with the Ryan vogt it was Dane
to pfife. He afterwards whaanever hisº blaetther began to fail off him and his rough bark was wholly husky and, stoop by stoop, he neared it (wouldmanspare!)º carefully lined the ferroconcrete result with
rotproof bricks and mortatº, fassed to fossed, and retired beneath the heptarchy of his towerettes, the beauchamp, byward, bullº
and lion, the white, the wardrobe and bloodied, so encouraging (insteppen, alls als hats beliefd!) additional useful councils
public with hoofd offdealings which were welholden of ladykants
te huur out such as the Breeders' Union, the Guild of Merchants of the Stapleº et, a.u.c.º
to present unto him with funebral pomp,º over and above thatº a stone slab with the usual
Mac Pelahº address of veledictionº, |sha very fairworded instance of falsemeaning
adamelegysh|: We have done ours gohellt with you, Heer Herewhippit, overgiven it, skidoo!
But t'house and allaboardshoops! Show coffins, winding sheets, goodbuy bierchepes,º cinerary urns, liealoud blassesº,
snuffchests, poteentubbsº, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers, breakmiddles,
zootzaks for eatlust, including upyourhealthing
rookworst and meathewersoftened forkenpootsies and for that matter, javel also, any kind
of inhumationary bric au brac for the adornmentº of his glasstone honophreum,º would, met these trein of konditiens, naturally follow,
halas, in the ordinary course, enabling that roundtheworlder wandelingswight, did suches pass
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him, to live all safeathomely the presenile days of his life of opulence, ancient ere decrepitude, late lents last
lenience,º till stuffering stage, whaling away the whole of the while (hypnos chilia eonion!) lethelulledº between
explosion and reexplosionº (Donnaurwatteur! Hunderthunder!) from grosskopp to megapod, embalmed, of grand age,
rich in death anticipated.
But abide Zeit's sumonserving, rise afterfallº. Blueblitzboltedº from there, knowing the hingeworms of the hallmirks of habitationlesnessº, buried burrowing in Gehinnon,º to proliferate through all his Unterwealth, seam by seam, sheol om sheol, and revisit our Uppercrust Sideria ofº Utilitarios, the divine one, the hoarder hidden propagutingº his plutorpopular progeniem of pots and pans and pokers and puns from biddenland to boughtenland, the spearway fore the spoorway.
The other spring offensive on the heights of Abraham may have come about all quite by accidence,
Foughtarundserº (for Breedabrooda had at length presuadedº him to have himself to be as septuply buried as the murdered Cian in
Finntown),º had not been three monads in his watery grave (what vigilantes and ridings then and spuitwyne pledges
with aardappel frittling!) when portrifaction, dreyfussed as ever, began to ramp, ramp, ramp, the boys are parching. A hoodenwinkle gave the signal and a blessing paper freed the flood. Why did the
patrizien make him scares with his gruntens? Because the druiven were muskating at the door. From both Celtiberian camps
(granting at the onset for the sake of argument that men on the two sidesº in New South Ireland and Vetera Uladh,
bluemin and pillfaces, during the ferment With the Pope or On the Pope, had, moors or letts, grant ideas, grunted) all conditions, poor cons and dives
mor, each, of course, |shon the purely doffensivesh| since the
|sheternals were owlwise on their side every timesh|, were drawn toowards their Bellona'sº Black Bottom,
onceº Woolwhite's Waltz (Ohiboh,º how becrimed, becursekissed and bedumbtoit!)º some for want of proper feeding in youth, others already caught in the honourable act of slicingº
careers for family and carvers in conjunction;º andº if emaciated noughº, the person garrotted may have suggested to whomever heº
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took the ham of, the plain being involved in darkness, low cirque waggery, nay, even the first old wugger of himself in the flesh, whiggissimus incarnadined,º when
falsesighted by the ifsuchhewas bully on the hillºº for there had circulated freely fairly among his opposition the feeling that in so hibernating Massa Ewackaº, who, previous to that
demidetached life, had been known of barmicidal days, cook said, between soups and savoursº, to get outside his own
length of rainbow trout and taerts atta tarn as no man of woman born, nayº could, like the great crested
brebeº, devour his threescoretenº of roach per lifeday, ay, and as many minnow a minute
(the big mix, may Gibbet choke him!)º was, like the salmon of his
ladderleapº all this time of totalityºº secretly and by suckage
feeingº on his own misplaced fat.
Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the first cityº (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneedº to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earthball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown. Venuses were gigglibly temptatrix, vulcans guffawably eruptious and the whole wives' world frockful of fickles. Fact, any human inyonº you liked any erenoon or efter would take her bare godkinº out, or an even pair of hem, (lugod! lugodoo!) andº prettily pray with him (or with em even)º everyhe to her taste, long for luck, tapette and tape petter and take pettest of all. (Tip!)º Wells she'd woo and wills she'sº win but how the deer knowed where she'd marry!º Arbour, bucketroom, caravan, ditch?º Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, dungcart?º
Kate Strongº, a widow (Tiptip!)º — she pulls a
|shlanesh| picture for us, |shinº a
dreariodreama settingsh|, glowing and very vidual, of old dumplan as she nosed it, a homelike cottage of elvanstone with droppings of biddies, stinkend pusshies,
moggies' duggies, rotten witchawubbles, festering rubbages and beggars' bullets, if not worse, sending
salmofarious germs in gleefully through the smithereen panes — Widow Strong, then, as her weaker had turned him to the wall
(Tiptiptip!),º did most all the scavenging from good King Hamlaugh's gulden dayneº though her lean besom
cleaned but sparinglyº and her bare statement reads that,
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there being no macadamised Sidetracksº on those old nekropolitan nights
in,º barring a footbatter, Bryant's Causeway, bordered with speedwell, white clover and
sorrel a wood knows, which left off, being beaten, where the plaintiff was struck,º she left down,º
as scavengers,º who will be scavengersº must, her filthdump near the
Serpentine in Phornix Park (at her time called Finewell's Keepsacre,º but later tautaubapptossed Pat's Purge), |shthat
dangerfield circling butcherswood where fireworker oh flaherty engaged a nutter of
castlemallards and ah for archer stunned'sº turk,sh| all over which
fossil footprints, bootmarks, fingersigns, elbowdints,º breechbowls,º a.s.o. were all successively traced of a most
envolvingº description. What subtler timeplace of the weald than such wolfsbelly castrament to willº hide a leabhar from
Thursmen's brandihands or a loveletter, lostfully hers, that would be lust on Ma, than then whenº ructions ended, than here where race began: and 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!
For hear Allhighest sprack for krischnians as for propagana fidies andº his nuptial eagles sharped their beaks of prey: and every
morphylº man of us, pome by pome, falls back into this terrine: as it was let it be, says he!º And it is as though where Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as mayamutras
theº obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswastyº timberman torchpriest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the
woodº that Jove bolt, at hisº rude word.º Posidonius O'Fluctuary! Laveº that bloody stone as it is! Whatº
are you doing your dirty minx and his big treeblock way up your path? Slipº around, you, by the rare of the ministers'º! Andº, you, take that barrel back
where you got it, Mac Shane'sº, and go the way your old one went, Hatchettsbury Road! And gish!º how they gushed away, the pennyfares, a whole school for scamper, with their sashes flying sish behind them, all the little pirlypettes! Issy-la-Chapelle! Any
lucans, please?
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Yes, the viability of vicinals if invisible is invincible. And we are not trespassing on his corns either. Look at all the plotsch! Fluminian!º If this was Hannibal's walk it was Hercules' work. And a hungried thousand of the unemancipated slaved the way. The mausoleum lies behind us (O Adgigasta, multipopulipater!º) and there are milestones in their cheadmilias faultering along the tramestrack byº Brahm and Antonº Hermes! Per omnibus secular seekalarum.º Amain. But the past has made us this present of a rhedarhoad. So more boherº O'Connell! Though rainyhidden, you're rhinohide. And if he's not a Romeo you may scallop your hat. Wereupunder in the fane of Saint Fiacre! Halte!
It was hard by the howe'sº there,º plainly on this disoluded and a buchan cold spotº,
rupestric then, resurfaced that now is, that Luttrell sold if Lautrill bought, in the saddle of the
Brennan'sº (now Malpasplace?) pass, versts and versts from true civilisation, not where his dreams top their traums haltº
(Beneathere! Benathere!º) but where livland yontide meared with the wilde, saltlea with flood, that the attackler, a cropatkin,º though
under medium and between colours withº truly nativeº
pluck,º engaged the Adversary who had more in his eye than was less to his leg but whom forº
plunder sake, he mistook in the heavy rain to be Oglethorpe or some other ginkus, Parr aparrently, to whom the headandheelless chickenestegg bore some Michelangiolesqueº
resemblance, making use of sacrilegious languages to the defect that he would challenge their hemosphores to exterminate them but he would cannonise the b—y b—r's life out of him and
lay him out contritely as smart as the b—r had his b—y nightprayers said, three patrecknocksters and a couplet of hellmuirries
(|shtout est sacré pour un sacreur,º femme à barbe ou
homme-nourricesh|) atº the same time, so as to plugg wellº |shlet the blubbywail
ghoats out of him,sh| catching holst of an oblong bar he had and with which he usually broke furnitures he rose the stick at him. The boarder incident prerepeated itself. The pair
(whethertheywere Nippoluono engaging Wei-Ling-Taouº or de Razzkias trying to reconnoistre the general Boukeleff, man may not say),º struggled apairently
for some considerable time, (the cradle rocking equally
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to one and oppositely from the other on its law of capture and recapture), underº the All Inº rules around the booksafe, fighting
like purple top and tipperuhry Swede,º
ºººº (|shSecremented Servious of the
Divine Zeal!sh|)º and in the course of their tussle the tollerº man, who had opened his bully bowl to
beg,º said to the miner who was carrying the worm (a handy term for the portable distillery which consisted of three
vats, two jars and several bottlesº though we purposely say nothing of the stiff, both parties having an interest in the spirits):ºº
Let me go, Pautheen!º I hardly knew ye.º Later on, after the solstitial
pause for refleshmeant, the same manº (or a different and younger him of the same hamº) asked in the
vermicular with a very oggly chew-chin-grinº:º Was six victolios
fifteen pigeon takee offa you, tell he me, stlongfella, by picky-pockyº ten to foul months
behindaside?º There were some further collidabanter and severe tries to convert for the best part of an hour and now a woden
affair in the shape of a webley (we at once recognise our old friend Ned of so many illortemporate letters) fell from the intruserº who, as stuck as
that cat to that mouse in that tube of that christchurch organ, (did the imnage of Girl Cloud Pensive flout above them light young charm, in ribbons and pigtail?)º whereupon became friendly and,
saying not to tear his shirtº, wanted to knowº, laying all joking and
knobkerries asideº, if his change companionº who stuck still to the
invention of his strongbox, withº a tenacity corrobberating their mutual tenitorial rights, happened to have the loots change of a tenpound crickler about him at the moment, addling thatº
hap so, he would pay him back the six vics odd, do you see, out of that for what was taken on the man of samples last Yuni or Yuly, do you follow me, Capn? To this the other, Billi with the Boule, who had mummed and mauled up to that (for he was
hesitency carried to excelcism) rather amusedly replied:º Woowoo would you be grossly surprised, Hill,
to learn that, as it so happens, I honestly have not such a thing as the loo, as the least chance of a tinpanned crackler anywhere about me at the present mohomoment but I believe I can see my way, as you suggest, it being Yuletide or Yuddanfest and as it's mad nuts,
son, for you
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when it's hatter's hares, mon, for me, to advance you something like four and sevenpence between hopping and trappingº which you might just as well have, boy baches,
to buy J. J. and S.º with.º There was a minute silence before memory's
fire's rekindling and then. Heart alive! Which atº very first wind of gay
gayº and whiskwigsº wick'sº ears pricked up, the starving gunman,
strike him pinkº, became strangely calm and forthright sware by all his lards porsenal that the thorntree of
sheolº might ramify up his Sheofon to the lux apointlex but he would go good to him suntime marxº my word fort, for
a chip off the old Flint,º (in the Nichtian glossery which purveys aprioric roots for aposteriorious tongues this is
nat language at any sinse of the world and one might as fairly go and kish his sprogues as fail to certify whether the wartrophy eluded at some lives
earlier was that somethink like a jug, to what, a coctable)º and remarxing inº languidoily, seemingly much more highly pleased than
tongue could tell at this opening of a lifetime and the foretaste of the Dun Bank pearlmothers and the boy to wash down which he would feed to himself in the Ruadh Cow at Tallaght and then into the
Good Woman at Ringsend and after her inat Conway's Inn at Blackrock and, first to fall, cursed be all, where appetite would keenest be,º atte, funeral fare or fun fain
real, Adam and Eve's in Quantity Street by the grace of gamyº |shqueenº
Tailte, her willsh| and testament:ºº You stunning little southdowner!
I'd know you anywhere, Declaney, let me truthfullyº tell youº in or out of the
lexinctionº of lifeº and who the hell else, be your blanche patch! on the boney part!º
Goalball I've struck this daylit dielate night of nights, by golly! My hat, you have some bullyº German
grit, sundowner!º He spud in his faust (axin); he toped the raw best (pardun);º he poked his pick (a tip is a tap): and
he tucked his friend's leave. Andº with French hen or the portlifowlium of hastes and leisures, about to
continue that theº queer mixture exchanged the pax inº embrace or poghue puxy as practised between brothers of the same breast,
hillelulia, killelulia, allenalaw, and, having ratified before the god of the day their torgantruce which belittlers have schmallkalled the treatyng to cognac, turning his fez menialstrait in the
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direction of Moscasº, he first got rid of a few mitsmillersº and hurooshoos and levanted off with tubular jurbulance at a bull's run over the assback bridge
spittingº his teeths on roothsº with the seven and four in danegeld and their humoral hurlbat or other uncertain weapon of lignum vitae, but so evermore rhumanasant of a toboggan poop, picked
upº to keep some crowplucking appointment with some rival rialtosº anywheres between Pearidge and the Littlehorn while this poor delaney,º who they left along with the confederate fender behindº and who
albeitº ballsbluffed, bore up wonderfully wunder all of it with a whole number of plumsized contusiums, plus alasalah bruised coccyx,
all over him, reported the occuranceº in the best way he could, to the flabbergaze of the whole lab givingº the Paddybanners the
military salute as for his exilicy's theº O'Daffy, in justifiable hope that, in nobiloroman review of the hugely sitisfactuary conclusium of their negotiations and the jugglemonkysh agripment deinderivative, some lotion or
fomentation of poppyheads would be jennerously exhibited to the parts,º at the nearest watchhouse inº Vicar Lane, the white ground of
his face all covered with digonallyº redcrossed nonfatal mammalian blood as
proofpositiveº of the seriousness of his character and that he was bleeding in self defience (stanch it!) from the
nostrils, lips, pavilion and palate, while some of his hitter's hairs had been pulled off his knut's head by Colt though otherwise his allround health appeared to be middling along as it proved most
fortunate that not one of the two hundred and six bones and five hundred and one muscles in his corso was a whit the whorse for her whacking. Herwho?
Nowthen, leaving clashing ash, brawn and muscle and brassmade to oust earthernbornº and rockcrystal to wreck isinglass but wurming along gradually for our savings
backtowards motherwaters so many miles from bank and Dublin stone
(|sholympiadingsh| even till the |sheleventh dynasty to reach that
thuddysickend Hamlaughsh|) and to the question of boney's unlawfully obtaining a pierced paraflamme and claptrap
fireguardº there crops out the still more salient point of the politish leanings and town pursuits of our forebeer, El Don De Dunelli,
(|shmay his ship thicked stick
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in the bottol of the river and all his crewsers stock locked in the burral of the seassh|!) who,º when within the black of your toenail,
sir, of being mistakenly ambushed by one of the uddahveddahs,º and as close as made no matter, mam, to being kayoed offhardº when
the hyougono heckler with the Peter the Painter wanted to hole him, was consistently practising the first of the primary and imprescriptible
liberties of the pacific subject by circulating (be British, boys toº your bellybone and chuck a chum a chance!)
alongst one of our umphrohibited semitary thrufahrts, open to buggy and bike, to walk, Wellington Park road,º with the curb or
|shquaker's quacknostrumsh| under his auxter and his alpenstuck in his redhand, a highly commendable exercise, or, number two of our
acta legitima plebeia, on the brink (beware to baulk a man at his will!) of taking place upon a public seat, to what, bare by Butt's, most easterly (but all goes west!) of blackpool bridges, as a
public protest and naturlikevice,º without intent to annoy either, being praisegood thankfully for the wrathbereaved ringdove and the fearstung boaconstrictor and
all the more right jollywell pleased, which he was, at having other people's weather.
But to return to the atlanticº and Phenitia Proper. As if that were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was made in
solvingº the wasnottobe crime cunundrumº when a child of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in old
plomanschº Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey on the calends of
Mars,º under an incompatibly framed indictment of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one fellow's fetch being the other follow's
person)º that is to see, flying cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces on the field. Oyeh! Oyeh! When the prisoner, soaked in methylated, appeared
in dry dock, appatently |shambrosiaurealisedsh|, likeº
|shKersse's Korduroy Karikaturesh|, wearing,besides stains, rents and patches,º his fight shirt, straw braces,
souwester and a policeman's corkscrew trowswers, all out of the trueº (as he had purposely torn up all his cymtrymanx bespokes in the mamertime), deposing for
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his exutionº with all the fluors of sparse in the royal Irish vocabularyº how the whole
padderjagmartin tripiezite suet and all the sulfeit of copperas had fallen off him quatz unaccountably like the chrystalisations of
Alum on Even while he was trying for to stick fire to himcell, (|shin feacht he was dripping as he found upon stripping for a
pipkin ofmaltº as he feared the coold rainesh|) itº was attempted by the crown
(|shP.C. Robortsh|) to show that King, elois Crowbar, once known as
|shMelekysh|, impersonating a climbing boy,
rubbed some pixes of any luvial peatsmoor o'er his face, plucks and pussas, with a clanetourf
as the best means of disguising himself and was toº the middlewhite
fair in Mudford of a Thoorsday, feishts of Peeler and Poleeº, under the illassumed names of Tykingfest and
Rabworc pickedº by him and Anthony outº of a tellafun book, ellegedlyº
with a pedigreeº pig (unlicensed) and a hyacinth. They were on that sea
|shby the plain of Irsh| nine hundred and ninetynine years and they never cried crack or ceased from
regular paddlewicking till that they landed their two and a trifling selves, amadst camel and ass, greybeard and suckling, priest and pauper, matrmatronº and merrymeg, into
the meddle of the mudstorm. The gathering, convened by the Irish Angricultural and Prepostoral Ouraganisations,º to
help the Irish muck to look his brother dane in the faceº and attended thanks to Larryº by large numbers,
ofº christies and jew'sº totems, tospite of the deluge, was distinctly of a scattery kind when the ballybricken he could
get no good of, after cockofthewalking through a few fancyfought mainsº ate some of the doorweg, the
pikey later selling the gentleman ratepayer because she, Francie's sister, that is to sayº
ate a whole side of hisº (the animal's) sty, on a struggle Street,º Qui Sta Troia, in order to pay off, hiss or lick, six
doubloons fifteen arrears of his, the villain's not the rumbler'sº rent.
Remarkable evidence was given, anon, by an eye, ear, nose and throat witness, whom Wesleyan chapelgoers suspected of being a
plain clothesº priest W.P.,º situate at Nullnull, Medical Square, who,
upon letting down his rice and peacegreen coverdisk and having been sullenly cautioned against yawning while
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being grilled, smiledº (he had had a onebumper at parting from Mrs Molroe in the morning) and stated to his eliciter underº
his morse mustaccents (gobbless!) thatº heº slept with a bonafides and that he would beº there º
to remember the filth of November, hatinaringº, rowdy O, which, with the jiboulees of Juno and the dates of ould
lanxiety, was going, please the Rainmaker, to decembs within the ephemerides of profane history, all one with Tournay, Yetstoslay and Temorah, andº
one thing which would pigstickularly strike a person of such sorely tried observational powers as Sam, him and Moffatº, though |shtheirs not to reason
whysh|, the striking thing about it was that he was patrified to see, hear, taste and smell,ºº as his time of
night, howº Hyacinth O'Donnell, B.A.,º described in the calendar as a mixer and
wordpainterº, with part of a sivispacem (Gaeltact for dungfork) on the fair green at the hour of
twenty-fourº o'clock sought (|shthe bullycassidy of the
friedhoffersh|!) to sack, sock, stab and slaughter singlehanded another
two of the old kings, Gushº Mac Galeº and Roaring O'Crian, Jr.,º both changelings,
unlucalised, of no address and in noncommunicables, between him and whom, ever since wallops before the Mise of Lewes,º bad blood existed on the ground of the boer's
trespass on the bullº or because he firstparted his polarbeeber hair in twoways,º or because they were creepfoxed andt grousuppers over
a nippy in a noveletta,º or because they could not say meace, (mute and daftº) meatheº. The litigantsº, he said, local
congsmen and donalds, |shkings of the arans and the dalkeys, kings of mud and tory, even the
goat king of Killorglin,sh| wereº egged on by their supporters in the shape of betterwomenº with bowstrung
hair of Carrothagenuine ruddiness,º waving crimson petties and screamingº from Isod's towertop.º There were cries from the thicksets in court and from
the macdublins on the bohernabreenº of: Mindº the bankº from Banagher, Mick, sir! Prodooce O'Donner. Ay!
|shExhibit his relics!sh| Bu!º Use the tongue mor! Give lip
less!º But it oozed out in Deadman'sº Dark Scenery Courtº through crossexanimation of the
casehardened testis that when and where that knife of knifes the treepartiedº ambushº was laid (roughly spouting around half hours
'twixtº dusk in dawn,
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by Waterhose'sº Meddle Europeic Time, near Stop and Thinkº, high chief evervirens and only abfalltree in auld the land) there
was not as much light from the widowed moon as would dim a child's altar. The mixer, accordingly, was bluntly broached, and
|shin the best baselsh| to boot, as to whether he was
one of those lucky cocks for whom the audible-visible-gnosible-edible world existed. That he was only too |shcognitively
conatively cogitabundantlysh| sure of it because, living, loving, breathing and sleeping morphomelosophopancreatesº, as he most significantly did,º
wheneverº he thought he heard he saw he felt he made a bell clipperclipperclipperclipper. Whether he was practically sure too of his lugs and truies namesº in
this king and blousemanº buisnessº? That he was pediculously so. Certified? As
cad could be. Be lying!º Be the lonee I will. It was Morbus O'
Somebodyº? A'Quiteº. Szerday's Sonº? A satyr in
weddens. And how did the greeneyed mister arrive at the
B.A.?º That it wasº like his poll. A crossgrained trapper with
murty odd oogs, awfloratedº ares, inquiline nase and a twithcherousº
mouph? He would be. Who could bit you att to a tenyerdfuul when aastalled? Ballera jobbera. Some
majar bore too? Iguines. And withº tumblerous legs, redipnominated Helmingham Erchenwyne Rutter Egbert Crumwall
Odin Maximus Esme Saxon Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht Ydwallaº Bentley Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann? Holy Saint Eiffel, the very phoenix! It was
Chudley Magnall once more between the deffodates and the dumb scene? The two childspies waapreesing him auza de Vologueº but the renting of his rock was from the three wicked
Vuncouverersº Forests bent down awhits, arthou sure? Yubeti, Cumbilumº comes! One of the oxmen's thingabossers, hvad?º And had he been refresqued by the
founts of bounty playing there—is—a—pain—alelandº in Long's gourgling barral? A loss of Lordedwardº and a lack of sirphilip a surgeonetº showeradown could suck more gargling bubbles out of the five lamps in Portterand's
praise.º Wirrgeling and maries?º As whoseº wouldn't,
laving his leaftime in Blackpool. Butº, of course, he could call himself Tem, too,º if he had time to? You butt he could anytom. When he
pleased? Win and
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place. A stoker temptated by evesdripping aginstº the driver who was a witness as well? Sacred avatar, how the
devil did they guess it!º Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error. And both as like as a duel of lentils?
Peacisely. So he was pelted out of the coram populoº, was he? Be the powers that
beº he was. |shThe prince in principel should not expose his person?
Macchevuole!sh| Rooskayman kameradº? Sooner Gallwegian he would say. Not unintoxicated, fair witness? Drunk as a fishup. Askt to whether she minded
whither he smuked? Not if he barkst into phlegms. Anent his ajaciulationsº to his Crosscann Lorne, cossaº? It was corso in cursu on coarser again. The gracious miss was we not doubt sensible how
yellowatty on the forx was altered? That she esually was, O'Dowd me
not!º As to his religion, if any? It was the see-you-Sundayº sort. Exactly what heº meant by a pederast prig?
Bejacob's, justº a gent who prayed his lent. And ifº middleclassed portavorous was a usualº beast? Bynight as useful as a vomit to a
shorn man. If he had rognarisedº dtheir gcourts marsheyls? Dthat nday in ndays he had. Lindendelly, coke or
skillliesº spell me gart without a gate? Harlyadrope. The grazing rights (Mrs Magistra Martinettaº) expired with the expiry of the goat's sire, if they were not mistaken? That he exactly
could not tell the worshipfuls but his mother-in-waders had the recipis for the price of the coffin and that he was there to tell them that herself was the velocipede that could tell them kitcat. A maundarin tongue
in a pounderin jowl? Father ourder about the mathers of prenanciation. Distributary endings? And we recommends. Quare hircum? No answer. Unde gentium fe …? No ah. Are you not
danzzling on the age of a vulcano? Siar, I am deed. And how olld of him? He was intendant to study pulu. Which was meant in a shirt of two shifts
macoghamade or up Finn,º threehatted ladder? That a
head in thighs under a bush at the sunface would bait a serpent to a millrace through the
heather. Arm bird colour defdum ethnic fort perharpsº? Sure and
glomsk handy jotalpheson as well. Hokey jasons, then, in a pigeegeeses? On a pontiff's order as ture as there's an ital on atac. As a gololy
bit to joss? Leally and tululy. But,º why this hankowchaff and
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whence this second tone, son-yet-sun!º He had the cowtaw in his
buxersº flay of face. So this that Solasistras, setting odds evens
at defiance, took the laud from Labouriter? What displaced Tob, Dilke and Halley, not been greatly in love with the game. And,
changing the venders, fromº the king's head to the |shrepublican's
armssh|, asº to the pugnaxities evinxed from flagfall to antepost during the effrays round fatherthyme's beckside and the regents in the
plantsown raining, with the skiddystars and the morkernwindup, how they appealed to him then? That it was wildfires night on all the bettygallaghers. Mickmichael'sº soords shrieking shrecks through the wilkinses and neckanicholas'º toastingforks
pricking prongs up the tunnybladders. Let there be fight? And there was. Foght.º On the site of the Angel's, you said?
Guinney'sº Gap, he said, between what they said and the pussykitties. In the middle of the garth, then? That they mushn't touchtº it.
The devoted couple was or were only two disappainted solicitresses on the job of the unfortunate class on Saturn's mountain fort? That was about it, jah! And Camellus then said to Gemellus: I should know
you? Parfaitly. And Gemellus then said to Camellus: Yes, your brother? Obsolutely. And if it was all about that, egregious sir? About that and the other. If he was not alluding to the whole in the wall? That he was
when he was not eluding from the whole of the woman. Briefly, how such beginall finally struck him now? Like the crack that bruck the bankº in Multifarnham. Whether he fell in with what theyº meant? Cursed thatº he
suppoxed he did. |shThos Thoris, Thomar's Thom? The rudacist rotter in Roebuckdom.sh|
|shSurtopicalsh|? And
|shsubhumansh|. If it was, in yappanoise language, ach bad clap?
Oo!º Ah! Augs and ohrs with Rhian O'kehley to put it tertianly, we wrong? Shocking! Such as turly pearced our really's that he might, that he might never, that he might never that night.
Triely and rurally.º
Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach,
eh?ººº You have it alright.º
Meirdreach an Oincuish!º But a new complexion was put upon the matter when to the perplexedlyº uncondemnatory bench (whereon punic
judgeship strove with penal law) the senior
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king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stucckomuck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loudburst of poesy,º through his
Brythonic interpreter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise asº fearra bheura muirre hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of
the bones of the story bouchalº that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess of parked porkers, afore God and all
their honours and king's commons that, what he would |shswear to the Tierney of Dundalgan or any other
Tierney,sh| yif live thurkells folloged him about sure that was no steal and that,
nevertheless,º what was deposited from that eyebold earbig noseknaving gutthroat, he did not fire a stone either before or after he was born down and up to that time. And,
incidentalising that they might talk about Markarthy or they might walk to Baalastartey or they might join the nabour party and come on to Porterfeudº this the sockdologer had the
neck to endorse with the head bowed on him over his outturned noreaster by protesting to his lipreaders with a justbeencleaned barefacedness, abeam of moonlight's hope, in the same trelawney
what he would impart, pleas bench, to the Llwyd Josusº and the gentlemen in Jury's and the
four of Masterers whoº had been all those yarns yearning for that good one about why he left Dublin, that,
|shamreeta beakersh| coddling doom, as an Inishman was as goodº as any cantonnatal, if he was to parish by
the market steak beforeº the dorming of the mawn,º heº skuld never ask to see sight or light of
this world or the other world or any either world, ofº Tyre-nan-Og, as true as he was there in that jackabox that minute, or wield or wind (no thanks t'yous!) the inexousthausthible wassailhorn tot of
iskybaushº the hailth up the wailth of the endknown abgod of the fire of the moving way of the hawks with his heroesº in Warhorrorº if ever in all his
exchequered career he up or lave a chancery handº to take or throw the sign of a mortal stick or stone at man, yoelamb or salvation army either
before or after being puptised down to that most holy and everyº blessed hour. ºº Here, upon the halfkneed
castleknocker's attempting kithoguishly to lilt his holymess the paws and make the sign of the Roman Godhelic faix, (Xaroshie, zdrst! —
in his excitement the laddo hadº
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broken exthro Castilian into which the whole audience perseguired and pursuited him olla podrida)ºº outbrokeº much yellachters from owners in
theº heall (Ha!) in which, under the mollification of methaglin, the testifighter reluctingly, but with ever so ladylike indecorum, joined. (Ha!
Ha!)º
The hilariohoot of Pegger's Windup cumjustledº as neatly with the tristitone of the Wetº Pinter's as were they isce et illeº equals of opposites, evolved by a onesame power of nature or of spirit, iste, as the sole condition and means of its himundher manifestation and polarised for reunion by the symphysis of their antipathies. Distinctly different were their duasdestinesº.º Whereas the maidies of the bar, (a pairless trentene, a lunarised score) whenº the eranthus myrrmyrred: Show'm the Posed:º fluttered and flattered around the willingly pressed, nominating him for the swiney prize, complimenting him, the captivating youth, on his having all his senses about him, stincking thyacinths through his curls (O feen! O deur!) and bringing busses to his cheeks, their masculine Oirisher Rose (his neece cleur!), and legando round his nice new neck for him and pizzicagnoling his woolywags,º with their dindy dandy sugar de candyº mechree me postheen flowns courierº to beliveº them of all his untiring young dames and sendº treats in their times. Ymen. Butº it was not unobserved of those presents, their worships, how, of one among all, her deputised to defeme him by the Lunar Sisters' Celibacy Club, a lovelooking leapgirl, all all alonely, Gentia Gemmaº of the Makegiddyculling Reeks, he, wan and pale in his unmixed admiration, seemed blindly, mutely, tastelessly, tactlessly, innamorateº with heruponhim in shining aminglement, the shaym of his hisuº shifting into the shimmering of her hers,º (youthsy, beautsy, hee's her chap and shey'll tell memmas when she gays whom)º till the wild wishwish of her sheeshea melted mostº musically mid the dark deepdeep of his shayshaun.
And whereas distracted (for was not just this in effect which had just caused that the effect of that which it hadº caused to occur?) the four justicers laid their wigs together,º Untius, Muncius, Punchus and Pylaxº but could do no worse than promulgate
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their standing verdict of Nolans Brumans whereoneafterº King, having murdered all the English he knew, picked out his pockets and left the tribunal scotfree, trailing his
|shTommeylommey'ssh| tunic in his hurry, thereinunder proudly showing off the blink patchº to his britgits to prove
himself (an't plase yous!) a rael genteel. To the Switz bobbyguard's curial but courtlike: Commodore valley O hairy, Arthre jennyrosy?:º the firewaterloover returted with such a vinesmelling fortytudor ages rawdownhams tanyouhide as wouldº the latten
stomach even of a tumass equinous (|shwe were prepared for the chap's clap cap, the accent, but, took us as,
by,º surprise and now we're geshing it like gush gash from a burnersh|!) so that all the twofromthirty advocatesses within echo, pulling up their briefs at the krigkry:
Shun the Punman!:º safely and soundly soccered that fenemine Parish Poser, (howº dare he!) umprumptu
rightoway hames, much to his thanks, gratiasagam, to all the wrong donatrices,º ºº biss
Drinkbattle'sº Dingy Dwellingsº where (for like your true venuson Esau he was dovetimid as the dears at Bottome) he shat in (zoo), likeº the muddy
goalbindº who he was (dun), the chassetitties belles conclaiming: You and your gift of your gaft of your garbageº abaht our Farvver! andº gaingridando: Hon!
Verg! Nau! Putor! Skam! Schams! Shames!
And so it all ended. Artha kama dharma moksa. Ask Kavya for the kay. And so everybody heard their plaint and all listened to their plause. The letter! The litter! And the soother the bitther! Of
eyebrow pencilled, by lipstipple penned. Borrowing a word andº begging the question and stealing tinder andº slipping like soap. From dark Rasaº Lane a sigh and a weep, from Lesbia Looshe the beam in her eye, from lone
Coogan Barry his arrow of song, from Sean Kelly's anagrim a blush at the name, from I am the Sullivan that trumpeting tramp, from Suffering Dufferin the Sit of her Style, from Kathleen May Vernon her Mebbeº fair efforts, from Fillthepot Curran his scotchlove machreether, from hymn Op.º 2 Phil Adolphos the weary O,
the leery, O, from Samyouwill Leaver or Damyouwell Lover thatjollyº old molly bit or that bored saunter by, from Timm Finn again's weak tribes,º loss of strength to his sowheel, from the wedding
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on the greene, agirlies, the gretnass of joyboys, from Pat Mullen, Tom Mallon, Dan Meldon, Don Maldon a slickstick picnic made in Moate by Muldoons. The solid man saved by his sillied woman. Crackajolking away like a hearse on fire. The elm that whimpers at the top told the stone that moans when stricken. Wind broke it. Wave bore it. Reed wrote of it.
Syce ran with it. Hand tore it and wild went war. Hen trieved it and plight pledged peace. It was folded with cunning, sealed with crime, uptied by a harlot, undone by a child. It was life but was it fair? It was free but was it art? The old hunks on the hill read it to
perlection. It made ma make merry and sissy so shy and rubbed some shine off Shem and put some shame into Shaun. Yet Una and Ita spill famine with drought and Agrippa, the propastored, spellsº tripulations in his threne. Ah, furchte
fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomonº, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free,º ana mala woe is we! A pair of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes, one old obster lumpky pumpkin and three meddlars on their slies. And that was how framm
Sin fromm Son, acity arose, finfin funfun, a sittingº arrowsº. Now tell me, tell me, tell me then!
What was it?
A..........!º
?......... O!º
So there you are now there they were,º when all was over again, the four with them, setting around upin their judges' chambers, in the muniment room, ofº their marshalsea, under the
suspicesº of Lally, around their old traditional tables of the law like Somany Solansº to talk it over rallthesameagainº. Well and druly dry. Suffering law the dring. Accourting to
king's evelyns. So help her goat and kiss the bouc. Festives and highajinks and jintyaun and her beetyrossy bettydoaty and not to forget now a'duna o'darnel. The four of them and thank court now there were no more of them. So pass the pushº for port
sakeº. Be it soon. Ah ho! And do you remember,º Singabob, the badfather,º the same, the great Howdoyoucallem, and his old nickname,
Dirty Daddy Pantaloons,º in his monopoleums, behind the war of the two roses, with Michael Victory, the sheemen's preester, before
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he caught his paper dispillsation from the poke, old Minace and Minster York? Do I mind? I mind the gush off the mon like Ballybock manure works on a tradewinds day. And the O'Moyly gracies and the O'Briny rossies chaffing him bluchface and playing him pranks. How do you do,º todo,
North Mister? Get into my way! Ah dearome forsailosheº! Gone over the bays! When ginabawdy meadabawdy! Yerra, why would heº heed that old gasometer with his hooping coppin and his dyinboosycough and all the birds of the southside after her, Minxy Cunningham,
their dear divorcee darling, jimmies and jonniesº to be her jo? Hold hard. |shThere's three other corners to our isle's cork
float.sh| Sure, 'tis well I can telesmell himº H2CE3 that would take a township's
breath away! Gob and I nose him tooº well as I do meself, heaving up the Kay Wall by the 32 to 11º with his limelooking horsebags full of sesameseed, the Whiteside Kaffir, and his sayman's effluvium and his scentpainted voice, puffing out his thundering
big brown cabbage! Pa! Thawt I'm glad a gull for his pawsdeen fiunn! Goborro, sez he, Lankyshiedº! Gobugga ye, sez I!º O breezes! I
sniffed that lad long before anyone. Itº was when I was in my farfather out at the west and she and myself, the redheaded girl,
firstnightingº down Sycomore Lane. Fine feelplay we had of it mid the kissabetts frisking in the kool kurkle dusk of theº lushiness. My perfume of the pampas, says she (meaning me) puttingº out her netherlights, and I'dº sooner one
precious sip at yourº pure mountain dew than enrich my acquaintance with that big brewer's belch.
º And so they went on, the fourbottle men, the analists, unguam and nunguamº and lunguamº again, their anschlussº
about her whosebefore and his whereaftersº and how she was lost away away in the fern andº how he was founded deap on deep in anear,º and the rustlings and the
twitterings and the raspings and the snappings and the sighings and the paintings and the ukukuingsº and the (hist!) the springapartings and the (hast!) the bybyscuttlings and
all the scandalmunkers and the pure craigs that used to be (up) that time living and lying and rating and riding round Nunsbelly Square. And all the buds in the bush. And the laughing
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jackass. Harik! Harik! Harik! The rose is white in the darik! And Sunfella'sº nose has got rhinoceritis from haunting the roes in the parik! So all rogues lean to rhyme. And contradrinking themselves about
Lillytrilly law pon hilly and Mrs Niall of the Nine Corsages and the old markiss theirº besterfar, and, arrah, sure there was
never a marcus at all at all among the manliesº and dear Sir armouryº, queer sir rumoury,º and the old house by the
churpelizod,º and all the goings on so very wrong long before when they were going on retreat, inº the old gammeldags, the four of them,
in Milton's Park under lovely Father Whisperer and making her love with his stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find was she mushymushy, and wasn't that very both of them, the
saucicissters, a drahereen o machree!º, and (peep!) meeting waters most improper (peepette!) ballround the garden, trickle trickle trickle triss, please, miman, may I
go flirting?º farmersº gone with a groom andº how they used her, mused her, licksed her and cuddled. I differ with ye! Are you sure of yourself
now?º You're a liar, excuse me! I will not and you're another! And Lully holding their breach ofº peace for them. Pool loll Lolly! To give and to take! And to foregoº
the pasht! And all will be forgotten! Ah ho! It was too too bad to be falling out about her kindness pet and the shape of OOOOOOOO Ourang'sº time. Well, all right, Lelly.
And shakeahand. And schenkusmore. For Craig sake. Be it suck.
Well?º
Well, even should not the framing up of such figments in the evidential order bring the true truth to light as fortuitously as a dim seer'sº
setting of a starchart might (heaven helping it!) uncover the nakedness of an unknown body in the fields of blue or as forehearingly as the sibspeeches of all mankind have foliated (earth seizing them!) from the root
of some funner'sº stotterº all the soundest sense to be found immense our special mentalists now holds (securus iudicat orbis terrarum) that by such
playing possum our hagious curious encestor bestly saved his brush with his posterity, you, charming coparcenors, us, heirs of his tailsie.
Gundogs of all breeds were beagling with renounced urbiandorbic
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bugles, hot to run him, given law, on a scent breasthigh, keen for the worry. View! From his holt outrattedº across the Juletide's genial corsslands of Humfries
Chase from Mullinahob and Peacockstown, then bearing right upon Tankardstown, the outlier, a white noelan which Mr Lœwensteilº Fitz
Urse'sº basset beaters had first misbadgered for a bruin of some swart, led bayers the run, then through Raystown and Horlockstownº and,
louping the loup, to Tankardstown again. Ear cannyº hare for doublingº through Cheeverstown they raced him, through Loughlinstown and Nutstown to wind him by the Boolies. But from the good turn when he last was lost,
check, upon Ye Hill of Rut in full winter coat with ticker pads, pointing for his rooming houseº his old nordest inº his
rolltoproyal hessiansº a deaf fuchser's volponism hid him close in covert, miraculously ravenfed and buoyed
up, in rumer, reticule, onasum and abomasum, upon (may Allbrewham have his mead!) the
creamclotted sherriness of cinnamon syllabub,º Mikkelraved, Nikkelsaved. Hence hounds hied home. Preservative
perseverance in the reeducation of his intestines wasºº the rebuttal by whilk he sort of git the big bulge on the whole bunch of spasoakers, dieting against glues and gravies, in that sometime
prestreet protown. Vainly violence, virulence and vituperation sought wellnigh utterly to attax and abridge, to derail and depontify, to enrate and inroad, to ongoad and unhume the great shipping mogul and underlinen overlord.º
But the spoil of hesitants, the spell of hesitency. His atake is it ashe, tittery taw tatterytail, hasitense humponadimply, heyheyheyhey a winceywencky.
Assembly menº murmured. Reynard is slow!
One feared for his days. Did there yawn? 'Twas his stommick. Eruct? The libber. A gush? From his visualsº. Pung?º Delivver him,
orelode! He had laid violent hands on himself, it was brought in Fugger's Newsletter, lain down, all inº fagged out, with equally melancholy death. For the triduum of Saturnalia his goatservant had paraded hiz willingsons in the
Forum while the jenny infanted the lass to be greeted raucouslyº (the Yardstated) with houx and spheusº andº measured
with missiles too from
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a hundred of manhood and a wimmering of weibes. Big went the bang: then wildewide was quiet: a report:º silence: last Fama put it under ether. The noase or the
loalº had dreven him blem,º blem, stun blem. Sparks flew. He had fled again (open shunshema!) this country of exile, sloughed off
sidleshomedº via theº subterranean º shored with bedboards, stowed away and
ankered in a dutch bottomº tunkº the Arsa, hodº S.S. Finlandia, and was even
nowº occupying, under an islamitic newhame in his seventh generation,
a physical body Cornelius Magrath'sº (badoldkarakter, commonorrong canbung) in Asia Major,º where as Turk of the
theaterº (º first house all flatty: the
kingº, elevenº sharps) he had bepiastered the buikdanseusesº from the opulence of his omnibox while as arabº at the
streetcoorº heº bepestered the bumbashaws for the alms of a para's pence. Wires hummed. Peacefully general astonishment assisted by regrettitude had put a term till his existence: he saw the family
saggarth, resigned,º put off his remainders, was recalled and scrapheaped by the Maker. Chirpings crossed. An infamous private ailment
(vulgovarioveneralº) had claimed endright, closed his vicious circle, snap. Jams jarred. He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond when innebriated up to the
point where braced shirts meet knickerbockers, as wangfish daring the buoyant waters, when rodmen's firstaiding hands had rescued un from very possibly several feelº
of demifrish water. Mush spread. On Umbrella Street where he did drinks from a pumpsº a kind workman, Mr Whitlock, gave him a piece ofº
wood. What words of power were made fas between them, ekenames and auchnomes, acnomina ecnumina? That,º O that, did Hansard tell us, would gar ganz Dub's ear wag in every pub of all the citta! Batty believes a
baton while Hogan hears a hod yet heerº prefers a punsil shapner and Cope and Bull go cup and ball. And the Cassidy — Craddockº rome and reme round e'er a wiege ne'er a waage is still immer and immor awagering over
itº a cradle with a care in it or a casket with a kick behind. Toties testies quoties questies. The war is in words and the wood is the world. Maply me, willowy we, hickory he and yew yourselves. Howforhim chirrupeth evereachbird!
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From golddawn glory to glowworm gleam. We were lowquacksº did we not tacit turn. Elsewere there here no concern of the Guinnesses.º But only the ruining of the rain has heard. Estout
pourporteral! Cracklings crickedº. A human pest cycling (pist!) and recycling (past!) about the sledgy streets,º here he was (pust!) again! Morse nuisance noised. He was loose at large and
(Ohº baby!) might be anywhereººº when a disguised exnun,º of huge standbuild and
masculine manners in her fairly fat forties, Carpulenta Gygasta, hattracted hattention by harbitrary conduct with a homnibusº. Aerials buzzedº to
coastal listeners of an oertax bror collector'sº budget, fullybigs, sporran, tie, tuft, tabard and bloody
antichill cloak, its tailor's (Baernfather's) tab reading V.P.H.,º found nigh Scaldbrothar's Hole,º and divers shivered
to think what kaind of beast, wolves, croppis'sº or fourpenny friars,º had devoured him. C.W. cast wide.
Hvidfinns lyk, drohneth svertgleam, Valkir lockt. On his pinksir's postern, the boys had it, at Whitweekend had been nailed an inkedupº
name and title, inscribed in the national cursives, accelerated, regressive, filiform, turreted and envenomoloped in piggotry: Move
up.º Mumpty! Mike room for Rumpty! By order, Nickekellous Plugg; andº this go, no pentecostal jest about it, how gregarious his race soever or skilful learned wise cunning knowledgable clear
profound his saying fortitudo fraughtº or prudentiaproven, were he chief, count, general, fieldmarshal,
prince, king or Myles the Slasher in his person, with a moliamordhar mansion in the Breffnian empire and a
place of inauguration on the hill of Tullymongan, there had been real murder, ofº the
rayheallachº royghal raxacraxian variety, theº MacMahon chaps, it was,
that had done him in. On the fidd of Verdor the rampartº combatants had left him lion with his dexter handcoup wresterected in a pureedeº
paumee bloody proper. Indeed not a few thick and thin wellwishers, mostly of the clontarfminded class,º (Colonel John Bawle O'Roarke,
fervxamplusº), even ventured so far as to loan or beg copies of D. Blayncy'sº trilingual
triweekly,º Scatterbrains' Aftening Poshtº so as to make certain sure onetime and be satisfied
of their quasicontribusodalitarian's having become genuinely quite
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beetly dead whether by land whither by water. Transocean atalaclamoured him;º The latter! The latter! Shall their hope then be silent or Macfarlane lack of lamentation?
He lay under leagues of it in deep Bartholoman'sº Deep.
Achdung! Pozor! Attenshune! Vikeroy Besights Smucky Yung Pigeschoolies. Tri Paisdinernes Eventyr Med Lochlanner Fathach I Fiounnisgehavenº. Bannalanna Bangs Ballyhooly Out Of Her Buddaree Of A Bullavogue.
But, their bright little contemporaries notwithstanding,º on the morrowing morn of the suicidal murder of the unrescued expatriate, aslike as asnake comes sliduant down that oaktree onto the duke of beavers, (youº may have seen some liquidamber exude exotic from a balsam poplar at Parteen-a-lax Limestone. Roadº and criedº Abies Magnifica! not, noble fir?)º a quarter of nine, imploring his resipiency, saw the infallible spike of smoke'sº jutstiff punctualº from the seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus' porphyroid buttertower and thenº thirsty p.m.º with oaths upon his lastingnessº (En caecos harauspices! Annos longos patimur!) theº lamps of maintenance, beaconsfarafieldº innerhalfº the zugguratº, all brevetnamed, the wasting wyvern, the tawny of his mane, the swinglowswaying bluepawº, the outstanding man, the lolllike lady, being litten for the long (O land,º how long!) lifesnight, withº suffusion of fineglass transom and leadlight panes.º
Wherefore let it hardly by any being thinking be said either or thought that the prisoner of that sacred edifice, were he an Ivor the Boneless or an Olaf the Hideº, was at his best a onestone parable, a rude breathing on the void of
to be,º a venter hearing his own bauchspeech in backwords, or, more strictly, but tristurned initials, the cluekey to a worldroomº beyond the roomwhorld,º for scarce one, or pathetically fewº of his
dode canalº sammenlivers cared seriously or for long to doubt with Kurt Iuldº van Dijke (the gravitational pull perceived by certain fixed residents and the capture of uncertain comets chancedrifting
through our system suggesting an authenticitatem of his aliquitudinis) the canonicity of his existence as a tesseract. Be still, O quick! Speak him dumb! Hush ye fronds of Ulma!º
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Dispersal women wondered. Was she fast?
Do tell us all aboutº. As we want to hear allabout. So tellus tellas allabouter.º The why orº whether she
looked alottylike like ussies andº whetherº he hadº his wimdop like themses shut?º Notes and queries, tipbids and answers, the laugh and the shout, the ards and
downs.º Now listedº to one aneither and liss them down and smoothen out your leaves of rose. The war is o'er. Wimwim wimwim! Was it Unity Moore or Estella Swifte or Varina Fay or Quarta
Quaedam? Toemaas, mark oom for yor ounckel! Pigeys, hold op med yer leg! Who, but who (for second time of asking)º was then the scourge of the parts about folkrich
Lucalizodº it was wont to be asked, as, in ages behind of the Homo Capite Erectus, what price Peabody's money, or, to put it bluntly, whence is the herringtons'º white cravat, as, in
epochs more cainozoic, who struck Buckleyº though nowadays as thentimes every schoolfilly of sevenscore moons or more who knowº
her intimologies and every colleen bawl aroof and every redflammelwaving warwife and widowpeace upon Dublin Wall for ever knows as yayas is yayas how it was Buckleyself (we need no blooding paper to tell it
neither) who struck and the Russian generals, da! da!,º instead of Buckley who was caddishly struck by him when beº herselves. What fullpried paulpoison
in the spy of three castles or which hatefilled smileyseller? And that such a vetriol of venomº, that queen's head affranchisant,
a quiet stinkingplaster zeal could cover, prepostered or postpaid! The loungelizards of the pumproomº had their
nine days' jeer, andº pratschkats at their platschpails too and holenpolendom beside, Szpaszpas Szpissmas,
the zhanyzhonies, when, still believing in her owenglass, when izarres were twinklins,º that the upper reaches of her
mouthless face and her impermanent waves were the better half of her, one nearer him, dearer than all, first warming creature of his early morn, bondwoman of the man of the
house,º and murrmurr of all the mackavicks, she who had given his eye for her bed and a tooth for a child till one one and one ten and one hundred again, O me and O
ye!º cadet and prim, the hungray andº anngreen (and if she is older now than her teeth she has hair that
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is younger than thighne, my dear!) sheº who shuttered him after his fall and waked him widowt sparing and gave him keen and made him able and held adazillahs to each arche of his noes, she who will not rast her from her running to seek him till, withº
the helpº of the okeamicº, some such timeº that she shall have been after hiding
theº crumbends of his enormousness in the areyouº lookingfor Pearlfar sea, (ur, uri,
uria!) stoodº forth, burnzburn the gorggonyº old danworld, in gogor's name, for gagar's sake,
dragging the countryside in her train,º finickin here and funickin there, with her louisequean's brogues and
her culunder buzzle and her little boleroº boa and allº and two times
twentyº curlicorniesº for her headdressº, specks on her eyeux,º and spudds onº horeilles and a circusfix riding her
Parisienne'sº cockneze, a vaunt her straddle from Equerry Egon, when Tinktink in the churchclose clinked
Steploajazzyma Sunday, Solaº, with pawns,º prelates and pookas pelotting in her piecebag,
forº Handiman the Chomp, Esquoro, biskbask, to crush the slander's head.
Wery weeny wight, plead for Morandmor! Notre Dame de la Villeº, mercy of thy balmheartzyheatº! Ogrowdnyk's beyond herbata tay, wort of the drogist. Bulk him no bulkis.ºº º And let him rest, thou wayfarreº, and take no gravespoil from him!º Neither mar his mound!º The bane of Tut is on it. Ware! But there's a little lady waiting and her name is A.L.P. And you'll agree. She must be she. For her holden heirheaps hanging down her back. He spenth his strenth amok haremscarems.º Poppyº Narancy, Giallia, Chlora, Marinka, Anileen,º Parme. And ilk a those dames had her rainbow huemouresº yet for whilkoº her whims but he coined a cure. Tifftiff today,º kissykissy tonay and agelong pine tomauranna. Then who but Crippled-with-Children would speak up for Dropping-with-Sweat?
Sold him her lease of ninenineninetee,º
Tresses undresses so dyedyedaintee,º
Goo,º the groot gudgeon,º gulpedº it all.
Hoo was the C.O.D.?º
Bum!º
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At Islandº Bridge she met her tide.º
Attabom, attabom,º attabombomboom!
The Fin had a flux and his Ebba a ride.º
Attabom, attabom,º attabombomboom!
We're all up to the years in hues and cribies.
That's what she's done for wee!º
Woe!
Nomad may roam with Nabuch but let naaman laugh at Jordanº! For we, we have taken our sheet upon her stones where we have hanged our hearts in her trees; and we list, as she bibs us, by the waters of babalong.