⁽⁺³⇒^+)3| Theº Gracehoper was always jigging a jogº^|s1, hoppyº^s1| 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 ^|1pulcy-pulcy pulicy-pulicy^{1| |3}and langtennas and ⁽⁺push pygydium pushpygyddyum^+)3| and to commence insects with him,º ^|3(+unread their there⁺⁾ mouthparts ⁽⁺to his orefice⁺⁾ and his ⁽⁺gambills to there⁺⁾ airy processes,º^3| even if only in chaste, ^|1ameng the ^|s+10everlastings everlistings^s+|10|,^1| behold a ⁽⁺³watering waspering^+)3| pot. He would of curse ^|1melissciouslyº^1| by his fore ^|3antennas feelhers, flexors, contractors, depressorsº and extensors^3|, lamely,º harry me, marry me, bury me, bind me,º till she was puce for shame and allso ^|1furnish fourmish^1| her in ^|1Spinner's^1| housery at the ^|1veribest earthsbest^1| schoppinhour so summery as his cottage, which was cald ^|1(+3fourmilierly fourmillierly^+)3|1| Tingsomingentingº, gropedº up. Or, if he was not done doing that, ^|5improbably^5| he wasº always ⁽⁺³stricking striking^+)3| upº funny funereels with ^|4Besterfather Besterfarther^{4| |s1}Zeuts ^|3zeuts Zeuts^|x, theº Aged One,º^{x| (+}and with⁺⁾ all his wigeared corollas,º ^|4albedinous
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and oldbuoyant,^4|3|s1| inscytheº his ^|3elytrical^3| wormcasket,º ^|3and Dehlia and Peonia, his druping nymphs,º bewheedling him, ⁽⁺and⁺⁾ compound eyes ^|aand ⁽⁺his unread quick in between his thighs ^|5and onº^5| hornitosehead,º^+)a| and Auld Letty ⁽⁺Plusserboots gratting Plussiboots to scratch⁺⁾ his cacumen ^|4and cackle his tramsitus^|6, diva deborahº^6| (seven bolls of soapº, a lick of lime, two spurts of fussfor, threefurts of sulph, aº shake ^|s+10o' shooker o' shoukerº^s+|10|, doze grains of ^|amegniss migniss^a| and a mesfull of madcapº ^|apitchies! pitchies: theº whool of the whaal in the wheel of the whorl of the Boubouº from Bourneum has thus come to ^|6taon!) taon!),º^{6|a|4| (+}and⁺⁾ with tambarins and cantoridettes ^|alegging soturning^{a| |4}around his eggshill ^|acoach ^|brocking coach ^|5rock coach rockcoach^5|b|a|4| their dance ⁽⁺McCabre McCaper^{+) |4}in retrophœbiaº, beckº from bulk,^4| like ^|4Jenny Aprils fantastic disossed and jennyº aprils^4|,º theº ra, ^|4the^4| ra, ^|4the^4| ra, ^|4the^4| raº,^{3| |4}langsome ^|ais heels^a| and langsome toesies,º^4| attended to by a mutter and ⁽⁺³deffer baxing motch ^|6duffer doffer duffmatt^6| baxingmotch^{+)3| |1}and a myrmidins of pszozlers^{1| |3}— ^|5. pszinging Satyr's Caudledayed Niceº ⁽⁺blank and ^|s+10Humbly, Hombly,^{s+|10| |s+10}Dumbly Dombly,º^s+|10| Sod We Awhile but Ho, Time Timeagen, Wake!º^{+)5| |x(+}They all skedaddled the more he fifaddled but however loose they legged it his orchidtrees logged them back.^+)x| Forº if sciencium (what's what) can ^|atell us ⁽⁺moot mute⁺⁾ uns^a| nought, 'a thought, abought the Great ⁽⁺Somebo_unready Sommboddyº⁺⁾ within the ^|s+10Omniboss Omniboss,^s+|10| perhops an artsaccord (hoot's hoot) might sing ^|aus ums^a| tumtim ⁽⁺about abutt⁺⁾ the ⁽⁺little newbiddies Little Newbuddies^{+) (+}who that^{+) |a}unread ^|bunread ring^b|a| his ⁽⁺punch panch⁺⁾.^{3| |5}A high old tide ^|afor for the ^|bbarheated barheated publics^b| and ^|ball the whole^{b| |6}day's day as^6| gratiis!^a| Fudder and ^|alightier lighting^a| for ally looty, any filly in a fog,º ^|afor^a| O'Cronione lags ^|aasunken acrumbling^a| in ^|6the his^6| sands but his sunsunsuns still tumble on.^{5| |3}anyting ^|5Anyting Erething^5|3| above ground^|3, as his Book of Breathings bidº him,^3| so as ^|5anywhy everwhy^5||3, sham or shunner,^{3| (8}zeemliangly⁸⁾ to kick time.

^|6⇒^6| Grousciousº me ^|3(+and^{+) |a}save scarab^a| my sahul^3|! Whatº a bagateller it is! ^|7Libelulous! Inzanzarity!^7| Pou! ^|9|shPschla!^{sh|9| |3|s+10}Ptah! Ptuh!^s+|10|3| Whatº a ^|6Zeit zeit^6| for the goths! ^|s1thought vented^s1| the Ondt, who^|1, notº being a sommerfool,^1| was ^|3thothfolly^3| making chilly spaces at ^|1himself hisphex^1| affront of the icinglass of his windhameº, which was cold ^|1antitopically^1| Nixnixundnix. ^|1Weº shall
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not ^|avisit them ^|bvisit him come to ^|chis that lopp's^c| partyº^b|a|, he decided ^|5possibly^5|, for he is not on our social list.^{1| |3}Nor to Ba's berial nether^|9, thon sloghard,^{9| |6}this oldeborre's yaar,º^{6| |a}as long ablong^a| as there's a ⁽⁺khu khul^{+) (+}in on⁺⁾ a khat. ⁽⁺Nefersenless^|5, when he had safely looked up his ovipository,^5| he ^|7loftet hails and^7| prayed:^{+) |a}May he me no voida water! Seekit Hatup! May no he me tile pig shed on! Suckit Hotup!^{a| (+}Abroad As broad⁺⁾ as Beppy's realm shall ⁽⁺flourish, flourish⁺⁾ my reign shall flourish! Asº high as
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Heppy's ⁽⁺heavn shall hie my height shall grow, hevn shall flurrish⁺⁾ my haine shallº hurrish! ⁽⁺Shall grow, shall flourish! Shall hurrishº! Hummum.^+)3|

^|3⇒^3| 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 ^|1in his psyche,^1| but (laus!)º when he wore making spaces ^|1on his ikeyº^1| he ware mouche ^|5moore mothstº^5| secred and ^|5moorav muravyingly^5| 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 ^|5waps ⁽⁸zanzaries bimblebeaks^8)5|, drinkl drikking with ^|5the drones nautonects^5|,º bilking with ^|5bugs dirty durryd durrydunglecks^5| and horing after ^|5hornests, ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon),º^5| he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and ^|6tanto tantoo^6| pooveroo ⁽⁸as quant⁸⁾ a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph ^|5or vosch^{5| |6}to sirch^{6| |3}for grub ^|afor his corapusse ^|bor ⁽⁺to⁺⁾ find a hospes^b|a|3|, alick, he wist ^|5nit gnit^5|! ^|5Bruko dry,! Fukoº ^|aout spint^a|! ^|aSaltamont Sultamont^a| osa bare! And volomundo osi videvide!^{5| |4}Nichtsnichtsundnichts!^{4| |5}Not a one pickopeck of muscowmoney to bag a tittlebits of beebread!^{5| |1|5}Iomio! Iomio! ⁽¹¹Iomiol! Iomiol! Iomio! Iomio!^{11)5|1| |5}Crick Crick's corbicule^5|,º which a plight!º ^|3O moy ⁽⁺Bug Bog, he contrited ^|9with ^|shmelanctholy^sh|9|,º ^|9Me blizzeredº, him sluggered!^9|+) I am heartily ⁽⁺sorry. hungry!^+)3|

^|3(+⇒^+)3| 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 ⁽⁺³mouthballs mundballs^+)3| of the ^|1ephemerals ephemerids^1| and ^|s+10voracioused vorasioused^{s+|10| |3}most glutinously^3| with the very ^|1timepiece timeplace^1| in theº ternitary — not too dusty a cicada ^|3of neuterimentº^3| for a ^|7little chittinous^7| chipp chip so mityº. But when Chrysalmas was on the bare ^|s+10branches branches,^s+|10| 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. ^|6Had he ⁽¹¹twicylched twicycled¹¹⁾ the sees of the deed and ^|atritraversed trestraversed^a| their ^|areverlosthings revermer^a|? Was he come to hevre with his engiles or gone to hull with the poop?^6| The June ^|3snow snows^3| was flocking ^|1thuckly in thuckflues^1| on the hegelstomesº^|3, millipeedsº ⁽⁺of it⁺⁾ and ⁽⁺myriopouds myriopoods⁺⁾,^3| and a lugly ^(9'|shwhizzling^sh|9') torno tournedos, the Boraborayellers,º ^|3blasting blohablasting^{3| |1|3}tilehuts tegolhuts^3| up to tetties and^{1| |3}the ruching^3| sleets off the coppeehouses^|s9, playing ^|shragnowrock rignewreck^sh|,^{s9| |3}with an irritant,
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penetrant, siphonopterous spukk spuk^3|. ^|3(+Grausssssss! Opr! Grausssssss! Opr!^+)3|

^|4⇒^4| The Gracehoper,º who^|3, though blind as batflea, yet^3| knew^|9, not a leetle beetle,º^{9| |1}the correct thing his ^|3good smetterling of^3| entymology^1|,º ^|3|x(+by which to be an oufraked was to have an upright,^{+)x|3| |9}asped nissunitimost lous nor liceensº but^9| promptly tossed himself in the vico^|1, phthin and phthir,^1| on top of his buzzer^|9, tezzily wondering wheer would his aluck alight or boss of both appease,º^9| and the next time he
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makes theº aquinatance of the Ondt ^|3after this they have met theirselvesº^|9, these mouschical umsummablesº,^{9|3| |5}it shall be motylucky if^5| he will beheld ^|6not^6| a world of differents. Behailed ^|6His Gross^6| the Ondt^|5, prostrandvorous^{5| |3}upon his dhrone,º^{3| |5}in his Papylonian babooshkees,^{5| |9}smolking a spatial ^|abeetlerº^a| brunt of Hosana cigals,^9| with unshrinkables ^|4draping farfalling^4| from his unthinkables, ^|1simply revelling swarming of himself^1| in his sunnyroom, sated before his comfortumble ^|1filupsuppy phullupsuppy^1| of a plate o' monkynousº and a confucion of minthe (for he was a conformed ^|5aceticist and^{5| |s+10}aristotaller) aristotaller),^s+|10| as appi as a oneysucker or a baskerboy on the ^|s+10Libido Libido,^s+|10| with Floh biting his bigº thigh and Luse lugging his ^|4left luff^4| leg and Bienieº bussing him under his bonnet and Vespatilla blowing cosy fond tutties up the ^|s9|shallabroad length of the^sh|s9| large of his smalls. ^|s9|shAs entomate as^sh| intimate could pinchably be.º^s9| Emmetº and Demmet demmet and be jiltses crazed and be jadeses whipt! schneezed the Gracehoper^|3, aguepe with ^|5blank ptchs ptchjelasys^5| and^3| at his wittol's ^|6end indts^6|, Whatº have ^|4eyeforsight. eyeforsight!^4|

^|6⇒^6| Theº Ondt^|3, that true and perfect host,^{3| |s9|sh}a spiter aspinne^sh|,^s9| was making the greatest spass a body could ^|3with his queens laceswinging,º^3| for he was spizzing all overº him ^|4like thingsumanythingº^4| in formicolationº, boundlessly blissfilled in an allallahbath of houris. He was ameising himself hugely ^|5at crabround and marypose^5|,º chasing Floh out of charity and tickling Luse, Iº hope too, and and tackling Bienie, faithº as well, and ^|5catching jukki jucking^5| Vespatilla ^|6jukely^6| by the ^|5end chimiche^5|. Never did ^|5Dorcan Dorsan^5| from ^|6Dunshangan Dunshanagan^6| dance it with more devilry! The veripatetic ^|3figure imago^3| of the ^|5impossible^5| Gracehoper ^|1on his odderkop in the myre^1|, ^|9|shafter his thrice ephemeral journeeys,^{sh|9| |3}sans mantis ne ^|4shoo shoos,º^{4| |4}feather weighed animules featherweighedº animule,^4|3| actually and presumptuably sinctifying chronic's despair, was ^|1sufficiently^{1| |5}and probably^{5| |3}too coocoo^3| much for his chorous
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of gravitates. ^|s9|shLet him be Artalone the Weeps with his parisites peeling off him,º I'll be Highfee the Crackasiderº. Flunkey Footle furloughed ran to 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^{s9| |3}A darkener of the threshold?º^{3| |7|a}Haru!º^a| Orimis, capsizer of his antboat, ^|acomes to sekketh rede from^a| Evil-it-is, lord of loaves in ^|aAmengded Amongded^a|. Be it! So be it! Thou-who-thou-art, the ^|8fleet-as-spindrift fleet-as-spindhrift^8|, impfang thee of mine ^|s+10wideheight! wideheight.^{s+|10|7| |8}Haru!^8|

^|7⇒^{7| |3}The thing pleased him ^|4and andt, andt, andtº^4|3|

He laug He larved ^|8and onnº^8| he larved ⁽⁺⁴and ^|8ann onnº^8|+)4| he merd such a ^|3naus nauses^3|
|3That the The^3| Gracehoper feared he would ^|3misplace his jaws mixplace his fauces.^3|
I forgive you, ^|7dear grondt^7| 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 ^|5what's where's^5| sweet
And be sure Vespatilla ^|s1finds fines^s1| 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!
^|5⇒ Let who likes lump above so what flies be a full 'un;
I could not ^|abe feel^a| moregruggy if this was prompollen.^5|
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I pickº up your ⁽⁺⁴reproof as reproof,^+)4| the ⁽⁺⁴gift horsegift^+)4| ofº a friend,º
For the prize of your save is the price of my spend.
^|3⇒ Can castwhores pulladeftkiss if oldpollocksº forsake 'em
Or Culex feel etchy if Pulex don't wake him?
A locus to loue, ^|ablank a term^{a| |4}to embarrass, itº t'embarrass,º^4|
These twain are the twins that tick Homo Vulgaris.^{3| |5(+
|6}Haf Hasº^6| 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^+)5|
We are Wastenot with Want, precondamned, two and true,
Till Nolans go volants and Bruneyes come blue.
^|7⇒ Ere those gidflirts now gadding you quit your mocks for my gropesº
An extense must impull, anº elapse must elopes.º
Of my ^|atactus tectucs^a| takestock, ^|ablank, tinktact,^a| and ail's ^|8weal weal;º^8|
As I view by your farlook hale yourself to my ^|aheal, heal.^a|
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Partiprise my thinwhins whilesº my blink points unbroken on
Your whole's whereabroadsº with Tout's tightyrightº token on.^7|
|7In my My in^7| risible universe ^|7where could you youdly haud^7| find
^|7Such prodigious advancement Sulch oxtrabeeforeness^{7| |7}with so much meat ^|asofeel soveal^{a|7| |7}behind? behind.º^7|
Your feats ^|7are end^7| enormous, your volumes immenseº
(May the Gracesº I hoped for sing Yourº Ondtshipº song sense!),º
Your genusº ^|7is its^7| worldwide, your ^|7spaces spacest^7| sublime!
But, ^|1holy Holyº^1| Saltmartin, why can't you beat time?

^|1In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust.º Allmen.º^1|