Theº Gracehoper was always jigging a jogº, hoppyº on akkant of his joyicityº (he had a partner pairº of findlestilts to supplant him),º or, if not,º he was always making ungraceful overtures to Floh and Luse and Bienie and Vespatilla to play pupa-pupa and pulicy-pulicy and langtennas and pushpygyddyum and to commence insects with him,º there mouthparts to his orefice and his gambills to there airy processes,º even if only in chaste, ameng the everlistings, behold a waspering pot. He would of curse melissciouslyº by his fore feelhers, flexors, contractors, depressorsº and extensors, lamely,º harry me, marry me, bury me, bind me,º till she was puce for shame and allso fourmish her in Spinner's housery at the earthsbest schoppinhour so summery as his cottage, which was cald fourmillierly Tingsomingentingº, gropedº up. Or, if he was not done doing that, improbably he wasº always striking upº funny funereels with Besterfarther Zeuts, theº Aged One,º with all his wigeared corollas,º albedinous and oldbuoyant, inscytheº his elytrical wormcasket,º and Dehlia and Peonia, his druping nymphs,º bewheedling him, compound eyes onº hornitosehead,º and Auld Letty Plussiboots to scratch his cacumen and cackle his tramsitus, diva deborahº (seven bolls of soapº, a lick of lime, two spurts of fussfor, threefurts of sulph, aº shake o' shoukerº, doze grains of migniss and a mesfull of madcapº pitchies: theº whool of the whaal in the wheel of the whorl of the Boubouº from Bourneum has thus come to taon!),º and with tambarins and cantoridettes soturning around his eggshill rockcoach their dance McCaper in retrophœbiaº, beckº from bulk, like fantastic disossed and jennyº aprils,º theº ra, the ra, the ra, the raº, langsome heels and langsome toesies,º attended to by a mutter and doffer duffmatt baxingmotch and a myrmidins of pszozlers pszinging Satyr's Caudledayed Niceº and Hombly, Dombly,º Sod We Awhile but Ho, Time Timeagen, Wake!º Forº if sciencium (what's what) can mute uns nought, 'a thought, abought the Great Sommboddyº within the Omniboss, perhops an artsaccord (hoot's hoot) might sing ums tumtim abutt the Little Newbuddies that ring his panch. A high old tide for the barheated publics and the whole day as gratiis! Fudder and lighting for ally looty, any filly in a fog,º for O'Cronione lags acrumbling in his sands but his sunsunsuns still tumble on. Erething above ground, as his Book of Breathings bidº him, so as everwhy, sham or shunner, zeemliangly to kick time.

Grousciousº me and scarab my sahul! Whatº a bagateller it is! Libelulous! Inzanzarity! Pou! ^|shPschla!^sh| Ptuh! Whatº a zeit for the goths! vented the Ondt, who, notº being a sommerfool, was thothfolly making chilly spaces at hisphex affront of the icinglass of his windhameº, which was cold antitopically Nixnixundnix. Weº shall
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not come to that lopp's partyº, he decided possibly, for he is not on our social list. Nor to Ba's berial nether, thon sloghard, this oldeborre's yaar,º ablong as there's a khul on a khat. Nefersenless, when he had safely looked up his ovipository, he loftet hails and prayed: May he me no voida water! Seekit Hatup! May no he me tile pig shed on! Suckit Hotup! As broad as Beppy's realm shall flourish my reign shall flourish! Asº high as Heppy's hevn shall flurrish my haine shallº hurrish! Shall grow, shall flourish! Shall hurrishº! Hummum.

The Ondt was a weltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spacesº in his psyche, but (laus!)º when he wore making spaces on his ikeyº he ware mouche mothstº secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking. Now whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle of love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bimblebeaks, drikking with nautonects,º bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon),º he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes, alick, he wist gnit! Bruko dry! Fukoº spint! Sultamont osa bare! And volomundo osi videvide! Nichtsnichtsundnichts! Not one pickopeck of muscowmoney to bag a tittlebits of beebread! Iomio! Iomio! Crick's corbicule,º which a plight!º O moy Bog, he contrited with ^|shmelanctholy^sh|,º Me blizzeredº, him sluggered! I am heartily hungry!

He had eaten all the whilepaper, swallowed the lustres, devoured forty flights of styearcases, chewed up all the mensas and seccles, ronged the records, made mundballs of the ephemerids and vorasioused most glutinously with the very timeplace in theº ternitary — not too dusty a cicada of neuterimentº for a chittinous chip so mityº. But when Chrysalmas was on the bare branches, offº he went from Tingsomingenting. He took a round stroll and he took a stroll round and he took a round strollagain till the grillies in his head and the leivnits in his hair made him thought he had the Tossmania. Had he twicycled the sees of the deed and trestraversed their revermer? Was he come to hevre with his engiles or gone to hull with the poop? The June snows was flocking in thuckflues on the hegelstomesº, millipeedsº of it and myriopoods, and a lugly ^|shwhizzling^sh| tournedos, the Boraborayellers,º blohablasting tegolhuts up to tetties and ruching sleets off the coppeehouses, playing ^|shragnowrock rignewreck^sh|, with an irritant, penetrant, siphonopterous spuk. Grausssssss! Opr! Grausssssss! Opr!

The Gracehoper,º who, though blind as batflea, yet knew, not a leetle beetle,º his good smetterling of entymology,º asped nissunitimost lous nor liceensº but promptly tossed himself in the vico, phthin and phthir, on top of his buzzer, tezzily wondering wheer would his aluck alight or boss of both appease,º and the next time he
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makes theº aquinatance of the Ondt after this they have met theirselvesº, these mouschical umsummablesº, it shall be motylucky if he will beheld not a world of differents. Behailed His Gross the Ondt, prostrandvorous upon his dhrone,º in his Papylonian babooshkees, smolking a spatial beetlerº brunt of Hosana cigals, with unshrinkables farfalling from his unthinkables, swarming of himself in his sunnyroom, sated before his comfortumble phullupsuppy of a plate o' monkynousº and a confucion of minthe (for he was a conformed aceticist and aristotaller), as appi as a oneysucker or a baskerboy on the Libido, with Floh biting his bigº thigh and Luse lugging his luff leg and Bienieº bussing him under his bonnet and Vespatilla blowing cosy fond tutties up the ^|shallabroad length of the^sh| large of his smalls. ^|shAs entomate as^sh| intimate could pinchably be.º Emmetº and demmet and be jiltses crazed and be jadeses whipt! schneezed the Gracehoper, aguepe with ptchjelasys and at his wittol's indts, Whatº have eyeforsight!

Theº Ondt, that true and perfect host, ^|sha spiter aspinne^sh|, was making the greatest spass a body could with his queens laceswinging,º for he was spizzing all overº him like thingsumanythingº in formicolationº, boundlessly blissfilled in an allallahbath of houris. He was ameising himself hugely at crabround and marypose,º chasing Floh out of charity and tickling Luse, Iº hope too, and tackling Bienie, faithº as well, and jucking Vespatilla jukely by the chimiche. Never did Dorsan from Dunshanagan dance it with more devilry! The veripatetic imago of the impossible Gracehoper on his odderkop in the myre, ^|shafter his thrice ephemeral journeeys,^sh| sans mantis ne shoos,º featherweighedº animule, actually and presumptuably sinctifying chronic's despair, was sufficiently and probably coocoo much for his chorous of gravitates. ^|shLet him be Artalone the Weeps with his parisites peeling off him,º I'll be Highfee the Crackasiderº. Flunkey Footle furloughed foul, writing off his phoney, but Conte Carme makes the melody that mints the money. Ad majorem l.s.d!^sh|º Divi gloriam.º A darkener of the threshold?º Haru!º Orimis, capsizer of his antboat, sekketh rede from Evil-it-is, lord of loaves in Amongded. Be it! So be it! Thou-who-thou-art, the fleet-as-spindhrift, impfang thee of mine wideheight. Haru!

The thing pleased him andt, andt, andtº

He larved onnº he larved onnº he merd such a nauses
The Gracehoper feared he would mixplace his fauces.
I forgive you, grondt Ondt, said the Gracehoper, weeping,º
For their sakesº of the sakesº you are safe in whose keeping.
Teachº Floh and Luse polkas, show Bienie where's sweet
And be sure Vespatilla fines fat ones to heat.
As I once played the piper I must now pay the count
So saida to Moyhammlet and marhaba to your Mount!
Let who likes lump above so what flies be a full 'un;
I could not feel moregruggy if this was prompollen.
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I pickº up your reproof, the horsegift ofº a friend,º
For the prize of your save is the price of my spend.
Can castwhores pulladeftkiss if oldpollocksº forsake 'em
Or Culex feel etchy if Pulex don't wake him?
A locus to loue, a term itº t'embarrass,º
These twain are the twins that tick Homo Vulgaris.
Hasº Aquileoneº nortº winged to go syf
Since the Gwyfyn we were in his farrest drewbryf
And that Accident Man not beseeked where his story ends
Since longsephyring sighs sought heartseast for their orience?º
We are Wastenot with Want, precondamned, two and true,
Till Nolans go volants and Bruneyes come blue.
Ere those gidflirts now gadding you quit your mocks for my gropesº
An extense must impull, anº elapse must elopes.º
Of my tectucs takestock, tinktact, and ail's weal;º
As I view by your farlook hale yourself to my heal.
Partiprise my thinwhins whilesº my blink points unbroken on
Your whole's whereabroadsº with Tout's tightyrightº token on.
My in risible universe youdly haud find
Sulch oxtrabeeforeness meat soveal behind.º
Your feats end enormous, your volumes immenseº
(May the Gracesº I hoped for sing Yourº Ondtshipº song sense!),º
Your genusº its worldwide, your spacest sublime!
But, Holyº Saltmartin, why can't you beat time?

In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust.º Allmen.º