Boumce! It is polisignstunter. The Sockerson boy. To pump the fire of the lewd into those soulths of bauchees, havsousedovers, tillfellthey deadwar knootvindict. An whele time he was rancing there smutsy ^(f39floskons flaskonsº^f10) nodunder ycholerd for their poopishers, ahull onem^(f39!º^f10) Fyre maynoother endnow! Shatten up ship! Bouououmce! Nomo clandoilskins cheakinlevers! All ashored for Capolic Gizzards! Stowlaway there, glutany of
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stainks^(f39.!º^f10) Porterfillyers and spirituous suncksters^(f39,!º^{f10) (f39}oooom Oooomº^f10) oooom!

As these vitupetards in his boasum he did strongleholder, bushbrows, nobblynape, swinglyswanglers, sunkentrunk, that from tin of this clucken hadded runced slapottleslup. For him had hord from fard a piping. As? Of?

Dour ^(f39douchy Douchyº^f10) was a sieguldson. He cooed that loud nor he was young. He cud bad caw nor he was gray Like wather parted from the say.

Ostia, lift it! Lift at it, Ostia! From the say! Away from the say!

Himhim. Himhim.

Hearhasting he, himmed^(f39,º^f10) reromembered all the chubbs, chipps, chaffs, chuckinpucks and chayney chimebells That he had mistributed in port, pub, park, pantry and poultryhouse, While they, thered, the others, that are, were most emulously concerned to cupturing the last dropes of summour down through their grooves of blarneying. Ere the sockson locked at the dure. Which he would, shuttinshure. And lave them to sture.

For be all rules of sport 'tis right That youth bedower'd to charm the night Whilst age is dumped to mind the day When wather parted from the say.

The humming, it's coming. Insway onsway.

Fingool ^(f39MacKishgmard MacKishguardº^f10) Obesume ^(f39Burgearse Burgeurseº^f10) Benefice, He was bowen hem and scrapin him in recolcitrantament to the rightabout And these ^(f39probenopubblicoes probonopubblicoesº^f10) clamatising for an extinsion on his hostillery With his chargehand bombing their eres. ^(f39Tids Tideº^f10), genmen, plays, she been goin shoother ^(f39off almaynoother aff allmaynootherº^f10) onawares.

You here nort farwellens rouster? Ashiffle ashuffle the wayve they.

From Dancingtree till Suttonstone ^(f39Theres There'sº^f10) lads no lie would filch a crown To mull their sack and brew their tay With wather parted from the say.

Lelong Awaindhoo's a selverbourne enrouted to Rochelle Lane and liberties those Mullinguard minstrelsers are marshalsing, par tunepiped road, under where, perked on hollowy hill, that poor man of Lyones, good Dook Weltington, hugon come errindwards,
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had hircomed to the ^(f39belles belles'º^f10) bows and been ^(f39cutattrapped catattrappedº^f10) by the mausers. Now is it town again, londmear of Dublin^(f39.!º^f10) And off coursse the toller, ples the dotter of his eyes with her: Moke the Wanst, whye doe we aime alike a pose of poeter peaced? While the dumb he shoots the shopper rope. And they all pour forth. Sans butly
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Tuppeter Sowyer, the rouged engenerand, a barttler of the beauyne, still our benjamin liefest, sometime frankling to thise citye, whereas bigrented him a piers half subporters for his arms, Josiah Pipkin, Amos Love, Raoul Le Febber, Blaize Taboutot, Jeremy Yopp, Francist de Loomis, Hardy Smith and Sequin Pettit followed by the snug saloon seanad of our Café Béranger. The scenictutors.

Because they wonted to get out by the goatweigh afore the sheep was looset for to wish the Wobbleton Whiteleg Welshers kaillykailly kellykekkle and savebeck to Brownhazelwood from all the dinnasdoolins on the labious banks of their swensewn snewwesner, turned again weastinghome, by Danesbury Common, and they onely, duoly, thruely, fairly after rainydraining fountybuckets (chalkem up, hemptyempty!) till they caught the wind abroad (alley loafers ^(f39passinggeering passingjeeringº^f10)!) all the rockers on the roads and all the boots in the stretes.

Oh dere! Ah hoy!

Last ye, lundsmin, hasty hosty! For an anondation of mirification and the lutification of our paludination.

His bludgeon's bruk, his drum is tore. For spuds we'll keep the hat he wore And roll in clover on his clay By wather parted from the say.

Hray!

^(f39⇒ Fromº^f10) Free ^(f39rogue Rogueº^f10) Mountone till Dew Mild Well to corry awen and glowry^(f39.!º^f10) Are now met by ^(f39Brownaboy Fuinnninuinn's Bawnaboy Fuinnuiguinn'sº^f10) former for a lyncheon partyng of his burgherbooh. The Shanavan Wacht. Rantinroarin Batteries Dorans. And that whistling thief, O'Ryne O'Rann. With a catch of her cunning ^(f39like^f10) and nowhere a keener.

The ^(f39for eolders fore oldersº^f10) were aspolootly at their ^(f39wetsend wetsendsº^f10) in the ^(f39mailing moilingº^{f10) (f39}waters waltersº^f10), trying to. Hide! Seek! Hide! Seek! Because number one lived at Bothersby North and he was trying to. Hide! Seek! Hide!
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Seek! And number two digged up Poors Coort, Soother, trying to. Hide! Seek! Hide! Seek! And ^(f39nomber numberº^f10) three he sleeped with Lilly Tekkles at The Eats and he was trying to. Hide! Seek! Hide! Seek! And the last with the sailalloyd donggie he was berthed on the Moherboher to the Washte and they were all trying to and baffling with the walters of, hoompsydoompsy walters of. High! Sink! High! Sink! Highohigh! Sinkasink!

Waves.

The gangstairs strain and anger's up As Hoisty rares the can and cup To speed the bogre's barque away O'er wather parted from the say.

Horkus chiefest ebblynuncies!

— He shook be ashaped of hempshelves, hiding that shepe in his goat. And for rassembling so bearfellsed the magreedy prince of Roger^(f39.º^f10) Thuthud.
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Heigh hohse, heigh hohse, our kindom from an orse! Bruni Lanno's woollies on Brani Lonni's hairyparts. And the hunk in his trunk it would be an insalt foul the matter of that cellaring to a pigstrough. Stop his laysense. Ink him! You would think him Alddaublin^(f39.º^{f10) (f39}staking Stakingº^f10) his lordsure like a gourd on puncheon. Deblinity devined^(f39.!º^f10) Wholehunting the pairk on a methylogical mission whenever theres imberillas! And calling Rina Roner Reinette Ronayne. To what mine ^(f39answer answarº^f10) is a lemans. Arderleys, beedles and postbillers heard him. Three points to one. Ericus Vericus corrupted into ware eggs. Dummy up, distillery! Broree aboo! Run him a johnsgate down jameseslane^(f39.!º^f10) Begetting a wife which begame his ^(f39niece niecesº^f10) by pouring her youngthings into skintighs. That was when he had dizzy spells. Till Gladstools Pillools made him ride as the mall. Thanks to his huedobrass beerd. ^(f39Lodenbroke Lodebrokeº^f10) the Longman, now he canseels under veerious persons but is always that Rorke relly^(f39!.º^f10) On consideration for the musickers he ought to have down it. Pass out your cheeks, why daunt you^(f39!?º^f10) Penalty, please! ^(f39There Thenº^f10) you'll know how warder barded the bollhead that parssed our alley. We just are upsidedown singing ^(f39what ever whateverº^f10) the dimkims mummur allalilty she pulls inner out heads. This is not the end of this by no manners means. When you've bled till you're bone it crops out
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in your flesh. To tell how your mead of, mard, is made of. All old Dadgerson's dodges one conning one's copying and that's what ^(f39wonderland's wanderland's^{f10) (f39}wanderlad'll wonderlad'llº^f10) flaunt to the fair. A trancedone boyscript with tittivits by. Ahem. You'll read it tomorrow, ^(f39marn mornº^f10), when the curds ^(f39areº^f10) on the table. A nigg for a nogg and a thrate for a throte. The auditor learns. Still pumping on ^(f39Torkenwhite Radlumps Yorkenwhite. Radlumpº^f10), Lencs. In ^(f39preplays preplayº^f10) to Anonymay's ^(f39left hinted lefthintedº^f10) palinode obviously ^(f39inspiterebbed inspiterabledº^f10) by a sibspecious connexion. Note the notes of admiration! See the signs of suspicion! Count the hemisemidemicolons! Screamer caps and invented gommas, quoites puntlost, forced to farce! The pipette will say anything at all for a change. And you know what aglove means in the Murdrus dueluct^(f39!?º^f10) Fewer to feud and rompant culotticism, a fugle for the gleemen and save, sit and sew. And a pants outsizinned on the Doughertys' duckboard pointing to peace at home. In some, lawanorder on lovinardor. Wait till we hear the Boy of Biskop reeling around your postoral lector! Epistlemadethemology for deep dorfy doubtlings. As we'll lay till break of day in the bunk of basky, O! Our island, Rome and duty! Well tried, ^(f39buckstiff bucktiffº^f10)! Batt in, boot! Sell him a breach contact, the vendoror, the buylawyer! One hyde^(f39,º^f10) sack, hic! Two stick holst, ^(f39Lucky huckyº^f10)! Finnish Make Goal! First you were Nomad, next you were Namar, now you're Numah and it's soon you'll be Nomon. Hence counsels Ecclesiast. There's every resumption. The forgein offils is on the shove to lay you out dossier. Darby's in the yard, planning it on you, plot
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and edgings, the whispering peeler after ^(f39cooks Cooksº^f10) wearing an illformation. The find of his kind! An artist, sir! And dirt cheap at a sovereign a skull! He knows his Finsbury Follies backwoods so you batter see to your regent refutation. Ascare winde is rifing again about nice boys going native. You know who was wrote about in the Orange Book of Estchapel? Basil and the two other men from King's Avenance. Just press this cold brand against your brow for a mow. Cainfully! The sinus the curse. That's it. Hung Chung Egglyfella now speak he tell numptywumpty topsawys belongahim pidgin. Secret things other persons place there covered not. How you fell from story to story like a sagasand
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to lie. ^(f39Enfilmung Enfilmingº^f10) infirmity. On the because ^(f39of youº^f10) alleging to having a finger a fudding in pudding and pie. ^(f39Then old Hunphydunphyville'll be blasted to bumboards of by the youthful herald who would once you were. He'd be our chosen one in the matter of Brittas more than anarthur. But we'll wake and see. The wholes poors riches ofº ours hundreds of manhoods and womhoods. Two cents, two mills and two myrds.º^f10) And here's the witnesses. Glue on to him, Greevy! Bottom anker, Noordeece! And kick kick killykick for the house that ^(f39juke Jukeº^f10) built! Wait till they send you to sleep, scowpow! By jurors' cruces! ^(f39Then old Hunphydunphyville'll be blasted to bumboards by the youthful herald who would once you were. He'd be our chosen one in the matter of Brittas more than anarthur. But we'll wake and see. The wholes poors riches of ours hundreds of manhoods and womhoods. Two cents, two mills and two myrds.º^f10) And it's all us rangers you'll be facing in the box before the twelfth correctional. Like one man, gell^(f39.?º^f10) Between all the Misses Mountsackvilles in their halfmoon haemicycles, gasping to giddies to dye for the shame. Just hold hard till the one we leapt out gets her yearing! Hired in cameras, extra! With His Honour Surpacker on the binge. So yelp your guilt and kitz the buck. You'll have loss of fame from Wimmegame's fake. Forwards! One bully son growing the goff and his twinger read out by the Nazi Priers. You fought as how they'd never woxen up, did you, crucket? It will wecker your earse, that it will! When hives the court to exchequer 'tis the child which gives the sire away. Good for you, Richmond Rover! Scrum around, our side! Let him have another between the spindlers^(f39.!º^f10) A grand game! Dalymount's decisive. Don Gouverneur Buckley's in the Tara Tribune, sporting the insides of a Rhutian Jhanaral and little Mrs Ex-Skaerer-Sissers is bribing the halfpricers to pray for her widower in his gravest embazzlement. You on her, hosy jigses, that'll be some nonstop marrimont! You in your stolen mace and anvil, Magnes, and her burrowed in Berkness cirrchus clouthses. Fummuccumul with a ^(f39graneen grauneenº^f10) aveiled. Playing down the slavey touch. Much as she was when the fancy cutter out collecting milestones espied her aseesaw on a fern. So nimb, he said, a dat of dew. ^(f39The smiling ever!º If you pulls me over pay me, prhyse!º^f10) Between Furr-y-Benn and Ferr-y-Bree. In this tear Vikloe vich he lofed. ^(f39The smiling ever. If you pulls me over pay me, prhyse!º^f10) A talor would adapt his caulking trudgers on to any shape at see. Address deceitfold^(f39,º^f10) of wovens weard. The wonder of the women of the world
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together, moya! And the lovablest
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Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O'Puckins MacKundred. Only but ^(f39she is she'sº^f10) a little width wider got. Be moving abog. You cannot make a limousine lady out of a hillman minx. Listun till you'll hear the Mudquirt accent. This is a bulgen horesies, this is wollan indulgencies, this is a ^(f39flemsh fflemshº^f10). Tik. Scapulars, beads and a stump of a candle, Hubert was a Hunter, chemins de la croixes and Rosairette's egg, all the trimmings off the tree that she picked up after the Clontarf voterloost when O'Bryan MacBruiser bet Norris Nobnut. Becracking his cucconut between his kknneess. Umpthump, Here Inkeeper, it's the doatereen's wednessmorn! Delphin dringing! Grusham undergang! And the Real Hymernians strenging strong at knocker knocker! Holy and massalltolled. ^(f39Tik.º^f10) You ought to tak a dos of frut^(f39. Jik. Sauss, saussº^f10). You're getting hoovier, a twelve stone hoovier, fullends a twelve stone hoovier, in your corpus entis and it scurves you right, demnye! Aunt as unclish ams they make oom. But Nichtia you bound not to loose's gone on Neffin since she clapped her charmer on him at Gormagareen. At the Gunting Munting Hunting Punting. The eitch is in her blood, arrah! For a frecklesome freshcheeky sweetworded lupsqueezer. And he shows how he'll pick him the lock of her fancy. Poghue! Poghue! Poghue! And a good jump, Powell! Clean over all their heads. We could kiss him for that one, couddled we, Huggins? Sparkes is the footer to hance off nancies. Scaldhead, pursue! Before you bunkledoodle down upon your birchentop again after them three blows from time, drink and hurry. The same three that nursed you, Skerry, Badbols and the Grey One. All of your own club too. With the fistful of burryberries were for the massus for to feed you living in dying. Buy bran biscuits and you'll never say dog. And be in the finest of companies. Morialtay and Kniferope Walker and Rowley the Barrel. With Longbow of the lie^(f39.,º^f10) Slick of the trick and Blennercassel of the brogue. Clanruckard for ever! The Fenn, the Fenn, the kinn of all Fenns! Deaf to the winds when for Croonacreena. Fisht! And it's not now saying how we are where who's softing what rushes. Merryvirgin forbed! But ^(f39of ifº^f10) they never eat ^(f39soullfriede soulefreedeº^f10) they're ating it now. With easter
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greeding. Angus! Angus! Angus! The keykeeper of the keys of the seven doors of the dreamadoory in the house of the household of Hecech saysaith. Whitmore, whatmore? Give it over, give it up! Mawgraw! Head of a helo, chesth of ^(f39aº^f10) champgnon, eye of a ^(f39gull gollº^f10)! What you'd if he'd. The groom is in the greenhouse, gattling out his. Gun! That lad's the style for^(f39.º^f10) Lannigan's ball! Now a drive on the naval! The Shallburn Shock. Never mind your gibbous. Slip on your ropen collar and draw the noosebag on your head. Nobody will know or heed you, Postumus, if you skip round schlymartin by the back and come front sloomutren to beg in one of the
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shavers' sailorsuits. Three climbs threequickenthrees in the garb of nine. We'll split to see you mouldem imparvious. A wing for oldboy Welsey Wandrer! Well spat, witty wagtail! Now piawn to bishop's forthe! Moove^(f39.!º^f10) There's Mumblesome Wadding Murch cranking up to the hornemoonium. Drawg us out Ivy Eve in the Hall of Alum! The finnecies of poetry wed music. Feeling the jitters? You'll be as tight as Trivett when the knot's knutted on. Now's your never! Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle and the brideen Alannah is lost in her diamindwaiting. What a magnificent gesture you will show us this gallus day. Clean and easy, be the hooker! And a free for croaks after. Dovlen are out for it. So is Rathfinn. And, hike, here's the hearse and four horses with the interprovincial crucifixioners throwing lots inside to know whose to be their gosson and whereas to brake the news to morhor. How our ^(f39myterbilder mysterbilderº^f10) his fullen aslip. And who will wager but he'll Shonny Bhoy be, the fleshlumpfleeter^(f39,º^f10) from Poshtapengha and all he bares sobsconcious inklings shadowed on soulskin. Its segnet yores, the strake of a hin. Nup. Laying the cloth, to fore of them. And thanking the fish, in core of them. To pass the grace for Gard sake! Ahmohn. Mr Justician Matthews and Mr Justician Marks and Mr Justician Luk de Luc and Mr ^(f39Justinian Justicianº^f10) Johnston-Johnson. And the aaskart, see, behind! Help, help, hurray! Allsup, allsop! Four ghools to nail! Cut it down, mates, look slippy! They've got a dathe with a swimminpull. Dang! Ding! Dong! Dung! Dinnin. Isn't it great he is swaying above us for his good
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and ours. Fly your balloons, dannies and dennises! He's doorknobs dead! And Annie Delap is free! Ones more. We could ate you, par Buccas, and imbabe through you, reassuranced in the wild lac of gotliness. One fledge, one brood till hulm culms evurdyburdy. Huh the throman! Huh the traidor. Huh the truh. ^(f39Arrorsure Errorsure^f10), he's the mannork of Arrahland oversense he horrhorrd his name in thuthunder. Rrrwwwkkkrrr! And seen it rudden up in fusefiressence on the flashmurket. P.R.C.R.L.L. Royloy. Of the rollorrish rattillary. The lewdningbluebolteredallucktruckalltraumconductor! The unnamed nonirishblooder that becomes a Greenislender overnight! But we're molting superstituettes out of his fulse ^(f39thortin thorotinº^f10) guts. Tried mark, Easterlings. Sign, ^(f39Soideric Sidericº^f10) O'Cunnuc, Rix. Adversed ord, Magtmorken, Kovenhow. ^(f39A die for due and Du for Dy.º^f10) There's a great conversion, myn! Coucous! Find his causcaus! From Motometusolum through Bulley and Cowlie and Diggerydiggerydock down to ^(f39bazeness's baseness'sº^f10) usual^(f39?.º^f10) He's alight there still, by Mike! Loose afore! Bung! Bring forth your deed! Bang! Till is the right time. Bang! Partick Thistle agen S. Megan's versus Brystal Palace agus the Walsall! Putsch! Tiemore moretis tisturb badday! The playgue will be soon over, rats! Let sin! Geh ^(f39tont toutº^f10)! All we wants is to get peace for possession. We
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dinned unnerstunned why you sassad about thurteen to aloafen, sor, kindly repeat! Or ledn us alones of your lungorge, parsonifier propounde of our edelweissed idol worts! Shaw and Shea are lorning obsen so hurgle up, gandfarder, and gurgle me gurk. You can't impose on frayshouters like os. Every tub here spucks his own fat. Hang coersion everyhow! And smotthermock Gramm's laws! But we're a drippindhrue gayleague all at ones. In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sounddance and ^(f39thereinofter thoreinofterº^f10) you're in the unbewised again, vund vulsyvolsy. You talker dunsker's brogue men we our souls speech obstruct hostery. Silence in thought! Spreach! Wear ^(f39anartful an artfulº^f10) of outer nocense! Pawpaw, ^(f39wowow wowwowº^f10)! Momerry twelfths, noebroed! That was a good one, ha! So it will be quite a material what May farther be unvuloped for you, old Mighty, when it's aped to foul a delfian in the Mahnung^(f39. Ha, haº^f10) ha! Talk of Paddybarke's
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echo! Kick nuck, Knockcastle^(f39!,º^f10) Muck^(f39!.º^f10) And you'll nose it, O you'll nose it, without warnward from we. We don't know the sendor ^(f39to whome towhomeº^f10). But you'll find Chiggenchugger's taking the Treaclyshortcake with Bugle and the Bitch pairsadrawsing and Horssmayres Prosession tyghting up under the threes. Stop. Press stop. To press stop. All to press stop. And^(f39,º^f10) be the seem talkin^(f39,º^f10) wharabahts hosetanzies, dat sure is sullibrated word^(f39!?º^f10) Bing bong! Saxolooter^(f39, for! Forº^f10) congesters are salders' prey. Snap it up in the loose, patchy the blank! Anyone can see you're the son of a gunnell. Fellow him up too, Carlow! Woes to the wormquashed, aye, and ^(f39wor worsº^f10) to the winner! Think of Aerian's Wall and the Fall of Toss. Give him another for to volleyholleydoodlem! His lights not all out yet, the liverpooser! Boohoohoo it oose! With seven hores always in the home of his thinkingthings, his nodsloddledome of his noiselisslesoughts. Two Idas, two Evas, two Nessies and Rubyjuby. Phook! No wonder, pipes as kirles, that he sthings like a rheinbok. One bed night he had the delysiums that they were all queens mobbing him. ^(f39Fell Feelº^f10) stiff. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ah, he, he! Abedicate yourself^(f39.!º^f10) It just gegs our goad. He'll be the deaf of us, pappappoppopcuddle, samblind daiyrudder. Yus, sord, fathe, you woll, putty our wraughther! What we waits be after? Whyfore we come agooding? None of you, cock icy! You keep that henayearn and her fortycantle glim lookbehinder. We might do with rubiny leeses. But of all your wanings send us out your peppydecked ales and you'll not be such a bad lot. The rye is well for whose amind but the wheateny one is proper lovely. ^(f39B E N K! Beng!º^f10) We sincerestly trust that Missus with the kiddies of sweet Gorteen has not B I N K to their very least tittles deranged if in B U N K and we greesiously augur for ^(f39your Yourº^f10) Meggers a B E N K  B A N K B O N K to sloop in with all sorts of ^(f39adceterus odceterasº^f10) and adsaturas. It's our last fight, Megantic, fear you will! The refergee's took to hailing to time the pass. There goes the blackwatchwomen^(f39,º^f10) all
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in white, flaxed up, ^(f39purgad burgadº^f10)! Right toe, Armitage! Tem for Tam at Timmotty Hall^(f39.!º^f10) We're been carried away. Beyond bournes and bowers. So we'll leave it to Keyhoe, Danelly and Pykemhyme, the three muskrateers,
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at the end of this age that had it from Variants' Katey Sherratt that had it from Variants' Katey Sherratt's man for the bonnefacies of Blashwhite and Blushred of the Aquasancta Liffey Patrol to wind up and to tells of all befells after that to Mocked Majesty in the Malincurred Mansion.

So you were saying, boys? Anyhow he what?

So anyhow, melumps and mumpos of the hoose uncommons, after that to wind up that ^(f39longtobechronickled longtobechronicledº^f10) gettogether thanksbetogiving day at Glenfinnisk-en-la-Valle, the anniversary of his finst homy commulion, after that same barbecue beanfeast was all over poor old hospitable corn and eggfactor^(f39,º^f10) King Roderick O'Conor, the paramount chief polemarch and last preelectric king of ^(f39allº^f10) Ireland, who was anything you say yourself between fiftyodd and fiftyeven years of age at the time after the socalled last supper he greatly gave ^(f39those maltknights and beerchurlsº^f10) in his umbrageous house of the hundred bottles^(f39,^f10) with the radio beamer tower and its hangars, chimbneys and equilines^(f39,º^f10) or^(f39,^f10) at least^(f39,º^f10) he ^(f39was'nt wasn'tº^f10) actually the then last king of all Ireland for the time being for the jolly good reason that he was still such as he was the eminent king of all Ireland himself after the last preeminent king of all Ireland, the whilom joky old top that went before him in the Taharan dynasty, King Arth Mockmorrow Koughenough of the leathered leggions, now of parts unknown^(f39,^f10) (God guard his generous comicsongbook soul!)^(f39,º^f10) that put a poached fowl in the poor man's pot before he took to his pallyass with the weeping eczema for better and worse until he went under the grass quilt on us^(f39,º^f10) nevertheless^(f39,º^f10) the year the sugar was scarce^(f39,º^f10) and we to lather and shave and frizzle him^(f39,º^f10) like a bald surging buoy and himself down to three cows that was meat and drink and dogs and washing to him, 'tis good cause we have to remember it, going through summersultryngs of snow and sleet ^(f39witht withº^f10) the widow Nolan's goats and the Brownes girls neats^(f39,º^f10) anyhow^(f39,º^f10) wait till I tell you^(f39,º^f10) what did he do, poor old Roderick O'Conor Rex, the auspicious waterproof monarch of all Ireland, when he found himself all alone by himself in his grand old handwedown pile after all of them had all gone off with themselves to their castles of
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mud, as best they cud, on footback, owing to the leak of ^(f39theº^f10) McCarthy's mare, in extended order, a tree's length from the longest way out, down the switchbackward slidder of the landsown route of Hauburnea's liveliest vinnage on the brain, the unimportant Parthalonians with the mouldy Firbolgs and the Tuatha de Danaan googs and the ramblers from Clane and all the rest of the notmuchers ^(f39and other slygrogging suburbanitesº^f10) that he ^(f39did not didn'tº^f10) care the royal spit out of his
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ostensible mouth about, well, what do you think he did, sir, but, faix, he just went heeltapping through the winespilth and weevily popcorks that were kneedeep round his own right royal round rollicking ^(f39toper's topers'º^f10) table, with his old Roderick Random pullon hat at a Lanty Leary cant on him and Mike Brady's shirt and Greene's linnet collarbow and his Ghenter's gaunts and his Macclefield's swash and his readymade Reillys and his panprestuberian poncho, the body you'd pity him, the way the world is, poor he, the heart of Midleinster and the supereminent lord of them all, overwhelmed as he was with black ruin like a sponge out of water, allocutioning in bellcantos to his own oliverian society ^(f39MacGuiney's McGuiney'sº^f10) Dreans of Ergen Adams and ^(f39thruming thrummingº^f10) through all to himself with diversed tonguesed through his old tears and his ould plaised drawl, starkened by the most regal of belches, like a blurney Cashelmagh crooner^(f39,º^f10) that ^(f39lerking larkingº^f10) Clare air, the ^(f39blackberd's blackbard'sº^f10) ballad I've a terrible errible lot todue todie todue tootorribleday, well, what did he go and do at all^(f39,º^f10) His Most Exuberant Majesty King Roderick O'Conor but, arrah bedamnbut, he finalised by lowering his woolly throat with the wonderful midnight thirst was on him, as keen as mustard, he could not tell what he did ale, that bothered he was from head to tail, and, wishawishawish, leave it, what the Irish, boys, can do, if he ^(f39did'nt didn'tº^f10) go^(f39,º^f10) sliggymaglooral reemyround and suck up, sure enough, like a Trojan, in some particular cases with the assistance of his venerated tongue, whatever surplus rotgut, sorra much, was left by the lazy lousers ^(f39of maltknights and beerchurlsº^f10) in the different bottoms of the various different replenquished drinking utensils left there behind them on the ^(f39premisses premisesº^f10) by that whole hogsheaded firkin family^(f39, the ofº^f10) departed honourable homegoers^(f39,^{f10) (f39}and other slygrogging^f10)
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^(f39suburbanites,^f10) such as it was, fall and fall about, to the brindishing of his charmed life, as toastified by his cheeriubicundenances, no matter whether it was chateaubottled ^(f39Guiness's Guinness'sº^f10) or Phoenix brewery stout it was or John Jameson and Sons or Roob Coccola or, for the matter of that, O'Connell's famous old Dublin ale that he wanted like hell, more ^(f39that thanº^f10) halibut oil or jesuits tea, as a ^(f39fall back fallback^f10), of several different quantities and qualities amounting in all to, I should say, considerably more than the better part of a gill or naggin of imperial dry and liquid measure till, welcome be from us here, till the rising of the morn, till that hen of Kaven's shows her beaconegg^(f39,º^f10) and Chapwellswendows stain our horyhistoricold and Father MacMichael stamps for aitch o'clerk mess and the Litvian Newestlatter is seen, sold and delivered and all's set for restart after the silence, ^(f39till^f10) like his ancestors to this day after him (that the blazings of their ouldmouldy gods may attend to them we pray!), overopposides the cowery lad in the corner and forenenst the staregaze of the cathering candled, that adornment of his album and folkenfather of familyans, he came acrash a crupper sort of a
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sate on accomondation and the very boxst in all his composs, whereuponce, behome the fore for cove and trawlers, heave hone, leave lone, Larry's on the focse and Faugh MacHugh O'Bawlar at the wheel, one to do and one to dare, par by par, a peerless pair, ever here and over there, with his fol the dee oll the doo on the flure of his feats and the feels of the fumes in the wakes of his ears our wineman from Barleyhome he just slumped to throne.

So sailed the stout ship Nansy Hans. From Liff away. For Nattenlaender. As who has come returns. Farvel, farerne! Goodbark, goodbye!

Now follow we out by Starloe!