The Ondt and a Gracehoper

^|aLet us consider their casess.^a| A gracehoper was ^|aalways^a| jigging around in his joyicity on his pair of ^|afindlesticks findlestilts^a| or, if not, he was always making ^|a|bdisgraceful ungraceful^b|a| overtures to Floh and Luse and Flutterby and Lovesalight ^|ato play pupas with & pulcy pulcy^a| to ^|acommit commence^a| insects with him^|a, even in chaste,^{a| |a}behind behold^a| a watering pot, ^|atill they were puce with sham^{a| |a}promising he would cursing ^|bby the Fore Antennas,^b|a| harry me, marry me, bury me, bind me, he would furnish her in housery as quickly as his cottage
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^|awhich was called Tingandingenting,^a| grew up. If he was not done doing that he was always getting up funny fumeralls with Besterfather Zeuts ^|ain inscythe^a| the wormcasket attended by a mutter & deffer baxing motch — anything above ground so as only to kill time. Grouscious me,! ^|aPou!^a| what a bagateller it was, to be sorry,! ^|aAnd what a zeit for the goths!^a| thought the Ondt who was making ^|achilly^a| spaces at himself affront of the icinglass
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^|aof in^a| his windhomes, the ^|aname ventname^a| of which was Nixnixundnix. The Ondt was a weltall ^|aand raumybult abelboobied^a| fellow bynear as altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was very sullemn & ^|aa sad^a| chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces but^|a, laus,^a| when he was making spaces he was ^|avery mouch moor^a| secred and wisechairmanlooking. Now
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when sillbilly Gracehoper had highkicked jingled through a jungle of love and ^|adebt debts^a| and jangled through a jumble of life and doubts ^|aafterwards afterworse^{a| |x}wetting with waps, drinking with drones, ^|abilking with the bugs,^a| horing with the hornets^x| he was as ^|asick sieck^a| as a ^|asinner sexton^a| and as ^|apoor pooveroo^a| as a churchprince. ^|aAnd ^|bwhere wheer^b| the midges to wend ^|bhimself ^|chemsilf hemsylph^c|b| he wist niet nat. Cricky, what a plight!^{a| |x}(he had eaten all the whilepaper, swallowed the lustres, devoured 40 flights of styearcases, chewed up all the ^|amensas menses^a| and seccles ^|aronged the records, made mouthballs of ephemerals,^a| and ^|avoracioused vouracioused^a| on the ^|avery^a| timepiece in the ternitary — not too dusty ^|agrub^a| a cicada for a chip so mity)^{x| |a}So ^|bwhen Chrysalmis was on the bare branches,^b| off he went from Tingandingenting ^|bhis high spirits were all giroflipgiroflep^b|a| He took a ^|around^a| stroll and he took a ^|around^a| stroll and he took a stroll ^|atill he was ^|bquite^b| grilly in the head ^|bthe leivenit li leivnits in his hair^b| & unread thought he had the ^|bTassmania Tossmania^b|,^a| and he came to Nixnixundnix ^|awhen Chrysalmis was on the bare branches^a|. The June snow asº flocking
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thuckly ^|aon the hegelstones^a| and the a lugly tornado ^|athe Boraborryellas^a| blasting the sleets off the ^|acoppeeshops coppeehouses^a|. The gracehoper ^|awho knew the correct thing^a| promptly tossed himself ontop his ^|ahead buzzer ^|bin the ^|csnow vico^c|b|a| & the next time he ^|asees makes the aquinetance^a| the Ondt he will beheld ^|ahim a world of differents ^|bthe with unshrinkables draping his h all toovisibles, enjoying revelling in his sunnyroom^{b|a| |a}as appi as a oneysu sucker ^|bor a baskerboy on the libido^{b|a| |a}sated^a| at his comefortumble fillupsupper of ^|aa plate o'^a| monkynouss ^|aand a confucion of minthe (for he was a conformed aristotaller)^a| and with Flo biting his big thigh and Luse lugging his left leg
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Bieni Bienie bussing him under his bonnet and Vespatilla ^|awintering blowing cosy fond tutties^a| his ^|ainto his ear up his smalls^a|. Emmet and demmet ^|aand there's and O^a| jadeses ^|awhept whipt ^|bbe jiltses crazed^b|a|!, ^|acreed schneezed^a| the Gracehoper. at his wittol's end, out of ^|aunread his^a| out of eyeforsight The Ondt was making the greatest spass a body could
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for he was spizzing all over, boundlessly blissfilled, ^|ain an allallahbath of houris,^a| chasing Floh and ^|atackling tickling^a| Luse and ^|acatching tackling^a| Bienie and catching Vespatilla. ^|aNo Dorcan from Dunshanagan ever danced it so?^a| The ^|averipatetic verypatetic^a| figure of the Gracehoper, actually & presumptually ^|asintifying sinctifying^{a| |a}chronic's^a| despair, was too great for
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his ^|achorous of^{a| |a}gravitate gravitates^a|. He larved & he larved & he merd such a ^|anaus nause^a| that the Gracehoper feared he would ^|ablank swallow^a| his jaws. ^|aFor the sake of For the sake of their sakes ^|bwho were once you are safe^b| in ^|bmy whose^b| keeping.^a| I forgive you, dear Ondt, said the Gracehoper ^|athen weeping^a|. ^|aBe kind to poor Floh Teach Floh & Luse ^|bdancing polkas^b|,^{a| |a}give stand^a| Bienie ^|ablank a treat^{a| |a}show with Bienie what's sweet^a| & Mind Vespatilla ^|agets plenty finds fat men^a| to ^|aeat heat^a| As I once played the piper I must now pay the count So it's saida
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to Moyhammlet and marhaba to your Mount!

We are Wastenot & Want, precondamned
Till Nolans ^|aare go^a| volants and Bruneyes ^|ago come^a| blue,
^|xIn the risible universe where could one find
Such prodigious advances with so much behind?
I pick up your reproof as the gift of a friend
For the prize of your save is the price of my spend
Your feats are ^|aenormous enormers^a|, Your volumes immense,
(May the Graces I hoped for ^|agive sing^a| Your Ondtship songsense)^x|
Your genus ^|aunbordered is blank^a|, your spaces sublime But
Holy Saltmartin, why can't you beat time?