FINNEGANS WAKE
Protodrafts
1st draft, October-November 1925, III§4R draft level 0
MS British Library 47482a 8-9 Draft details
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Let's see. See |ayou yewsa|. All |aseeing see, sawa| together. |aSirs? Hers?a| |aWhere which page Hymn Hima| saw |ahim hymna|. So and so. |aBuzz, |bShe, |cHiss, Hers,c|b|a| cease to cease. |aKindly turn the new leaves|b, thinningb| over, lisperingly. Cease to cease.a| |aBegin you, Rustle off now.a| Spake truth |ato thea| sooth |anone other folly volantya| |ato usa|. Were you there? |aWere we where? Where who were?a|
Were you there, holly and ivy, where you were when he? |aDid Gana| you climb |athe
yona| creeper's |awall, cling wall? Clinga| to it, |aremember now
|bmantling mantleb| hima|, the then Yule remember me.
|aWhy were Werea| you in |athe youra| prickly hedges,
redcoat |arobin robinsa|, roundface chumberries? Answer by your numbers |a1 to
3a|. Were you there, in the eyeful hollow |ain hollow deeping |bin deeping
laneb|a|? |aHaze!a| We |aonly had had onlya|
|ahalfa| a hazelight |ato see, me & my auxy|b, Jim
Darcy,b|a| hadn't we, jimmy, it was him|a, no kidding,a|
|agave stooda| us |amountjoysa|
|a|bten nuttyb|a| woodbines, |afree,a|
|amy rarea| |aSish!a| old honeysuckler, that's what
|amy young lady here, that's Fred |bWatkinsb| all the way
from blank, jock,a| |aour nutty john our john, he was,a| calls him, when
|awe sort of gathered he was in sugar,a| he puts |ausa| a |acertaina| question touching
whether the |apark phoenixa| rangers were they where |aforgiving
hisa| trespassing |aon their dutya|.
|aPees!a| the gentleman who passed us, |aonea| a Mr Beardall, a
burgomaster, after which, notwithstanding it was low visibility, we had seen all we desired only our jimmy, he's a roman,
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says, |aSpiss!a| let's spy on that old honeysuckler after His Corkiness Exexex paid for the 3 bottles of
joy, and his |afine finoa| oloroso. Following idly, what did you see?
|aHollymorry, ivysad Holymerry, iveysad, were you there?a| Nobody's here to hear, only trees, such as these, such as those waving there, the Barketree,
|athea| O'Brientree, the Rowantree, |athea| O'Corneltree, all
the trees of the wood that trembold, humbild, when they |aread hearda| the stoppress |ain the
|bto fromb| theira| Someday's Herold.