Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

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riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend

of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to

Howth Castle and Environs.

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-

core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy

isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor

had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse

to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper

all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to

tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a

kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in

vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a

peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory

end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.

The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-

ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-

nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later

on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the

offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,

erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends

an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:

and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park

where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-

linsfirst loved livvy.

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What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-

gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu

Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still

out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata-

pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie

Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear!

Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill-

killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired

and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab-

solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng

voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the

duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and

body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of

soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks

of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if

you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the

pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau-

rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar-

back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers

or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely

struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere

he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat-

er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so

that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!)

and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi-

fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the

banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie

ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part

inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in

grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like

Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab-

les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the

liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days

to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth

of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from

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next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec-

titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and

with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter-

ing down.

Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos-

laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with

ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned.

His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second.

Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister

Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and,

O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha,

Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!

What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday

this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness

to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive

ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that

would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of

heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus-

tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and

before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and

at the fading of the stars! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink

to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing

bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch-

bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She

has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the

dreamydeary. Heed! Heed! It may half been a missfired brick, as

some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back

promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou-

sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe

ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls-

rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers,

autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega-

phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods

and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and

the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur-

rocks and his fore old porecourts, the bore the more, and his

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blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi-

busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies

snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the

hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers,

homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud

murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may

and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn-

ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did

shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot-

tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom,

mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For

whole the world to see.

Shize? I should shee! Macool, Macool, orra whyi deed ye diie?

of a trying thirstay mournin? Sobs they sighdid at Fillagain's

chrissormiss wake, all the hoolivans of the nation, prostrated in

their consternation and their duodisimally profusive plethora of

ululation. There was plumbs and grumes and cheriffs and citherers

and raiders and cinemen too. And the all gianed in with the shout-

most shoviality. Agog and magog and the round of them agrog.

To the continuation of that celebration until Hanandhunigan's

extermination! Some in kinkin corass, more, kankan keening.

Belling him up and filling him down. He's stiff but he's steady is

Priam Olim! 'Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth. Sharpen

his pillowscone, tap up his bier! E'erawhere in this whorl would ye

hear sich a din again? With their deepbrow fundigs and the dusty

fidelios. They laid him brawdawn alanglast bed. With a bockalips

of finisky fore his feet. And a barrowload of guenesis hoer his head.

Tee the tootal of the fluid hang the twoddle of the fuddled, O!

Hurrah, there is but young gleve for the owl globe wheels in

view which is tautaulogically the same thing. Well, Him a being

so on the flounder of his bulk like an overgrown babeling, let wee

peep, see, at Hom, well, see peegee ought he ought, platterplate.

Hum! From Shopalist to Bailywick or from ashtun to baronoath

or from Buythebanks to Roundthehead or from the foot of the

bill to ireglint's eye he calmly extensolies. And all the way (a

horn!) from fiord to fjell his baywinds' oboboes shall wail him

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rockbound (hoahoahoah!) in swimswamswum and all the livvy-

long night, the delldale dalppling night, the night of bluerybells,

her flittaflute in tricky trochees (O carina! O carina!) wake him.

With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all

them inns and ouses. Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a tea-

ry turty Taubling. Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs

a gross if we are, about to believe. So pool the begg and pass the

kish for crawsake. Omen. So sigh us. Grampupus is fallen down

but grinny sprids the boord. Whase on the joint of a desh? Fin-

foefom the Fush. Whase be his baken head? A loaf of Singpan-

try's Kennedy bread. And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?

A glass of Danu U'Dunnell's foamous olde Dobbelin ayle. But,

lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through

that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for

he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.

Almost rubicund Salmosalar, ancient fromout the ages of the Ag-

apemonides, he is smoltenin our mist, woebecanned and packt

away. So that meal's dead off for summan, schlook, schlice and

goodridhirring.

Yet may we not see still the brontoichthyan form outlined a-

slumbered, even in our own nighttime by the sedge of the trout-

ling stream that Bronto loved and Brunto has a lean on. Hiccubat

edilis. Apud libertinam parvulam. Whatif she be in flags or flitters,

reekierags or sundyechosies, with a mint of mines or beggar a

pinnyweight. Arrah, sure, we all love little Anny Ruiny, or, we

mean to say, lovelittle Anna Rayiny, when unda her brella, mid

piddle med puddle, she ninnygoes nannygoes nancing by. Yoh!

Brontolone slaaps, yoh snoores. Upon Benn Heather, in Seeple

Isout too. The cranic head on him, caster of his reasons, peer yu-

thner in yondmist. Whooth? His clay feet, swarded in verdigrass,

stick up starck where he last fellonem, by the mund of the maga-

zine wall, where our maggy seen all, with her sisterin shawl.

While over against this belles' alliance beyind Ill Sixty, ollol-

lowed ill! bagsides of the fort, bom, tarabom, tarabom, lurk the

ombushes, the site of the lyffing-in-wait of the upjock and hock-

ums. Hence when the clouds roll by, jamey, a proudseye view is

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enjoyable of our mounding's mass, now Wallinstone national

museum, with, in some greenish distance, the charmful water-

loose country and the two quitewhite villagettes who hear show

of themselves so gigglesomes minxt the follyages, the prettilees!

Penetrators are permitted into the museomound free. Welsh and

the Paddy Patkinses, one shelenk! Redismembers invalids of old

guard find poussepousse pousseypram to sate the sort of their butt.

For her passkey supply to the janitrix, the mistress Kathe. Tip.

This the way to the museyroom. Mind your hats goan in!

Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a Prooshi-

ous gunn. This is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the Prooshi-

ous, the Cap and Soracer. This is the bullet that byng the flag of

the Prooshious. This is the ffrinch that fire on the Bull that bang

the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your

pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of

Lipoleum. Tip. Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his

same white harse, the Cokenhape. This is the big Sraughter Wil-

lingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs and his ironed

dux and his quarterbrass woodyshoes and his magnate's gharters

and his bangkok's best and goliar's goloshes and his pullupon-

easyan wartrews. This is his big wide harse. Tip. This is the three

lipoleum boyne grouching down in the living detch. This is an

inimyskilling inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy, stoop-

ing. This is the bog lipoleum mordering the lipoleum beg. A

Gallawghurs argaumunt. This is the petty lipoleum boy that

was nayther bag nor bug. Assaye, assaye! Touchole Fitz Tuo-

mush. Dirty MacDyke. And Hairy O'Hurry. All of them

arminus-varminus. This is Delian alps. This is Mont Tivel,

this is Mont Tipsey, this is the Grand Mons Injun. This is the

crimealine of the alps hooping to sheltershock the three lipoleums.

This is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting to read in their

handmade's book of stralegy while making their war undisides

the Willingdone. The jinnies is a cooin her hand and the jinnies is

a ravin her hair and the Willingdone git the band up. This is big

Willingdone mormorial tallowscoop Wounderworker obscides

on the flanks of the jinnies. Sexcaliber hrosspower. Tip. This

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is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most Awful

Grimmest Sunshat Cromwelly. Looted. This is the jinnies' hast-

ings dispatch for to irrigate the Willingdone. Dispatch in thin

red lines cross the shortfront of me Belchum. Yaw, yaw, yaw!

Leaper Orthor. Fear siecken! Fieldgaze thy tiny frow. Hugact-

ing. Nap. That was the tictacs of the jinnies for to fontannoy the

Willingdone. Shee, shee, shee! The jinnies is jillous agincourting

all the lipoleums. And the lipoleums is gonn boycottoncrezy onto

the one Willingdone. And the Willingdone git the band up. This

is bode Belchum, bonnet to busby, breaking his secred word with a

ball up his ear to the Willingdone. This is the Willingdone's hur-

old dispitchback. Dispitch desployed on the regions rare of me

Belchum. Salamangra! Ayi, ayi, ayi! Cherry jinnies. Figtreeyou!

Damn fairy ann, Voutre. Willingdone. That was the first joke of

Willingdone, tic for tac. Hee, hee, hee! This is me Belchum in

his twelvemile cowchooks, weet, tweet and stampforth foremost,

footing the camp for the jinnies. Drink a sip, drankasup, for he's

as sooner buy a guinness than he'd stale store stout. This is Roo-

shious balls. This is a ttrinch. This is mistletropes. This is Canon

Futter with the popynose. After his hundred days' indulgence.

This is the blessed. Tarra's widdars! This is jinnies in the bonny

bawn blooches. This is lipoleums in the rowdy howses. This is the

Willingdone, by the splinters of Cork, order fire. Tonnerre!

(Bullsear! Play!) This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the

solphereens in action, this is their mobbily, this is panickburns.

Almeidagad! Arthiz too loose! This is Willingdone cry. Brum!

Brum! Cumbrum! This is jinnies cry. Underwetter! Goat

strip Finnlambs! This is jinnies rinning away to their ouster-

lists dowan a bunkersheels. With a nip nippy nip and a trip trip-

py trip so airy. For their heart's right there. Tip. This is me Bel-

chum's tinkyou tankyou silvoor plate for citchin the crapes in

the cool of his canister. Poor the pay! This is the bissmark of the

marathon merry of the jinnies they left behind them. This is the

Willingdone branlish his same marmorial tallowscoop Sophy-

Key-Po for his royal divorsion on the rinnaway jinnies. Gam-

bariste della porca! Dalaveras fimmieras! This is the pettiest

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of the lipoleums, Toffeethief, that spy on the Willingdone from

his big white harse, the Capeinhope. Stonewall Willingdone

is an old maxy montrumeny. Lipoleums is nice hung bushel-

lors. This is hiena hinnessy laughing alout at the Willing-

done. This is lipsyg dooley krieging the funk from the hinnessy.

This is the hinndoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the

hinnessy. Tip. This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the

half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle

filth. This is the hinndoo waxing ranjymad for a bombshoob.

This is the Willingdone hanking the half of the hat of lipoleums

up the tail on the buckside of his big white harse. Tip. That was

the last joke of Willingdone. Hit, hit, hit! This is the same white

harse of the Willingdone, Culpenhelp, waggling his tailoscrupp

with the half of a hat of lipoleums to insoult on the hinndoo see-

boy. Hney, hney, hney! (Bullsrag! Foul!) This is the seeboy,

madrashattaras, upjump and pumpim, cry to the Willingdone:

Ap Pukkaru! Pukka Yurap! This is the Willingdone, bornstable

ghentleman, tinders his maxbotch to the cursigan Shimar Shin.

Basucker youstead! This is the dooforhim seeboy blow the whole

of the half of the hat of lipoleums off of the top of the tail on the

back of his big wide harse. Tip (Bullseye! Game!) How Copen-

hagen ended. This way the museyroom. Mind your boots goan

out.

Phew!

What a warm time we were in there but how keling is here the

airabouts! We nowhere she lives but you mussna tell annaone for

the lamp of Jig-a-Lanthern! It's a candlelittle houthse of a month

and one windies. Downadown, High Downadown. And num-

mered quaintlymine. And such reasonable weather too! The wa-

grant wind's awalt'zaround the piltdowns and on every blasted

knollyrock (if you can spot fifty I spy four more) there's that

gnarlybird ygathering, a runalittle, doalittle, preealittle, pouralittle,

wipealittle, kicksalittle, severalittle, eatalittle, whinealittle, kenalittle,

helfalittle, pelfalittle gnarlybird. A verytableland of bleakbardfields!

Under his seven wrothschields lies one, Lumproar. His glav toside

him. Skud ontorsed. Our pigeons pair are flewn for northcliffs.

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The three of crows have flapped it southenly, kraaking of de

baccle to the kvarters of that sky whence triboos answer; Wail,

'tis well! She niver comes out when Thon's on shower or when

Thon's flash with his Nixy girls or when Thon's blowing toom-

cracks down the gaels of Thon. No nubo no! Neblas on you liv!

Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindme-

rollingeyes and all the deed in the woe. Fe fo fom! She jist does

hopes till byes will be byes. Here, and it goes on to appear now,

she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother,

a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows

in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging

its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking

there, pussypussy plunderpussy. But it's the armitides toonigh,

militopucos, and toomourn we wish for a muddy kissmans to the

minutia workers and there's to be a gorgeups truce for happinest

childher everwere. Come nebo me and suso sing the day we

sallybright. She's burrowed the coacher's headlight the better to

pry (who goes cute goes siocur and shoos aroun) and all spoiled

goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy

spattees and flasks of all nations, clavicures and scampulars, maps,

keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with

bloodstaned breeks in em, boaston nightgarters and masses of

shoesets and nickelly nacks and foder allmicheal and a lugly parson

of cates and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets, ills and

ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that

come fro the hart (bucklied!) and the fairest sin the sunsaw

(that's cearc!). With Kiss. Kiss Criss. Cross Criss. Kiss Cross.

Undo lives 'end. Slain.

How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly fore-

bidden, to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheti-

cals so as to will make us all lordyheirs and ladymaidesses of a

pretty nice kettle of fruit. She is livving in our midst of debt and

laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable), with

a naperon for her mask and her sabboes kickin arias (so sair! so

solly!) if yous ask me and I saack you. Hou! Hou! Gricks may

rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture)

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for in the byways of high improvidence that's what makes life-

work leaving and the world's a cell for citters to cit in. Let young

wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth

behind the butteler's back. She knows her knight's duty while

Luntum sleeps. Did ye save any tin? says he. Did I what? with

a grin says she. And we all like a marriedann because she is mer-

cenary. Though the length of the land lies under liquidation

(floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glau-

brous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and

hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll

do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on. Paff. To puff the

blaziness on. Poffpoff. And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty

times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand

remonstrancers there'll be iggs for the brekkers come to mourn-

him, sunny side up with care. So true is it that therewhere's a

turnover the tay is wet too and when you think you ketch sight

of a hind make sure but you're cocked by a hin.

Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy,

fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe, we may take our review

of the two mounds to see nothing of the himples here as at else-

where, by sixes and sevens, like so many heegills and collines,

sitton aroont, scentbreeched ant somepotreek, in their swisha-

wish satins and their taffetaffe tights, playing Wharton's Folly,

at a treepurty on the planko in the purk. Stand up, mickos!

Make strake for minnas! By order, Nicholas Proud. We may see

and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off

Corkhill or the bergamoors of Arbourhill or the bergagambols

of Summerhill or the bergincellies of Miseryhill or the country-

bossed bergones of Constitutionhill though every crowd has its

several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each

harmonical has a point of its own, Olaf's on the rise and Ivor's

on the lift and Sitric's place's between them. But all they are all

there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve

and salve life's robulous rebus, hopping round his middle like

kippers on a griddle, O, as he lays dormont from the macroborg

of Holdhard to the microbirg of Pied de Poudre. Behove this

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sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen.

Royally? One sovereign punned to petery pence. Regally? The

silence speaks the scene. Fake!

So This Is Dyoublong?

Hush! Caution! Echoland!

How charmingly exquisite! It reminds you of the outwashed

engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his

innkempt house. Used they? (I am sure that tiring chabelshovel-

ler with the mujikal chocolat box, Miry Mitchel, is listening) I

say, the remains of the outworn gravemure where used to be

blurried the Ptollmens of the Incabus. Used we? (He is only pre-

tendant to be stugging at the jubalee harp from a second existed

lishener, Fiery Farrelly.) It is well known. Lokk for himself and

see the old butte new. Dbln. W. K. O. O. Hear? By the mauso-

lime wall. Fimfim fimfim. With a grand funferall. Fumfum fum-

fum. 'Tis optophone which ontophanes. List! Wheatstone's

magic lyer. They will be tuggling foriver. They will be lichening

for allof. They will be pretumbling forover. The harpsdischord

shall be theirs for ollaves.

Four things therefore, saith our herodotary Mammon Lujius

in his grand old historiorum, wrote near Boriorum, bluest book

in baile's annals, f. t. in Dyffinarsky ne'er sall fail tilheathersmoke

and cloudweed Eire's ile sall pall. And here now they are, the fear

of um. T. Totities! Unum. (Adar.) A bulbenboss surmounted up-

on an alderman. Ay, ay! Duum. (Nizam.) A shoe on a puir old

wobban. Ah, ho! Triom. (Tamuz.) An auburn mayde, o'brine

a'bride, to be desarted. Adear, adear! Quodlibus. (Marchessvan.) A

penn no weightier nor a polepost. And so. And all. (Succoth.)

So, how idlers' wind turning pages on pages, as innocens with

anaclete play popeye antipop, the leaves of the living in the boke

of the deeds, annals of themselves timing the cycles of events

grand and national, bring fassilwise to pass how.

1132 A.D. Men like to ants or emmets wondern upon a groot

hwide Whallfisk which lay in a Runnel. Blubby wares upat Ub-

lanium.

566 A.D. On Baalfire's night of this year after deluge a crone that

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hadde a wickered Kish for to hale dead turves from the bog look-

it under the blay of her Kish as she ran for to sothisfeige her cow-

rieosity and be me sawl but she found hersell sackvulle of swart

goody quickenshoon and small illigant brogues, so rich in sweat.

Blurry works at Hurdlesford.

(Silent.)

566 A.D. At this time it fell out that a brazenlockt damsel grieved

(sobralasolas!) because that Puppette her minion was ravisht of her

by the ogre Puropeus Pious. Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeagh-

bally.

1132. A.D. Two sons at an hour were born until a goodman

and his hag. These sons called themselves Caddy and Primas.

Primas was a santryman and drilled all decent people. Caddy

went to Winehouse and wrote o peace a farce. Blotty words for

Dublin.

Somewhere, parently, in the ginnandgo gap between antedilu-

vious and annadominant the copyist must have fled with his

scroll. The billy flood rose or an elk charged him or the sultrup

worldwright from the excelsissimost empyrean (bolt, in sum)

earthspake or the Dannamen gallous banged pan the bliddy du-

ran. A scribicide then and there is led off under old's code with

some fine covered by six marks or ninepins in metalmen for the

sake of his labour's dross while it will be only now and again in

our rear of o'er era, as an upshoot of military and civil engage-

ments, that a gynecure was let on to the scuffold for taking that

same fine sum covertly by meddlement with the drawers of his

neighbour's safe.

Now after all that farfatch'd and peragrine or dingnant or clere

lift we our ears, eyes of the darkness, from the tome of Liber Li-

vidus and, (toh!), how paisibly eirenical, all dimmering dunes

and gloamering glades, selfstretches afore us our fredeland's plain!

Lean neath stone pine the pastor lies with his crook; young pric-

ket by pricket's sister nibbleth on returned viridities; amaid her

rocking grasses the herb trinity shams lowliness; skyup is of ever-

grey. Thus, too, for donkey's years. Since the bouts of Hebear

and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun,

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the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have

pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights,

the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys

of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a

chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the too-

ath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Fire-

bugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevan-

ses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!

Year! And laughtears!), these paxsealing buttonholes have quad-

rilled across the centuries and whiff now whafft to us, fresh and

made-of-all-smiles as, on the eve of Killallwho.

The babbelers with their thangas vain have been (confusium

hold them!) they were and went; thigging thugs were and hou-

hnhymn songtoms were and comely norgels were and pollyfool

fiansees. Menn have thawed, clerks have surssurhummed, the

blond has sought of the brune: Elsekiss thou may, mean Kerry

piggy?: and the duncledames have countered with the hellish fel-

lows: Who ails tongue coddeau, aspace of dumbillsilly? And they

fell upong one another: and themselves they have fallen. And

still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras of the

field to their shyfaun lovers say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!:

and, but a little later: Pluck me whilst I blush! Well may they

wilt, marry, and profusedly blush, be troth! For that saying is as

old as the howitts. Lave a whale a while in a whillbarrow (isn't

it the truath I'm tallin ye?) to have fins and flippers that shimmy

and shake. Tim Timmycan timped hir, tampting Tam. Fleppety!

Flippety! Fleapow!

Hop!

In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a

parth a lone who the joebiggar be he? Forshapen his pigmaid

hoagshead, shroonk his plodsfoot. He hath locktoes, this short-

shins, and, Obeold that's pectoral, his mammamuscles most

mousterious. It is slaking nuncheon out of some thing's brain

pan. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst on the kiep

fief by here, is Comestipple Sacksoun, be it junipery or febrew-

ery, marracks or alebrill or the ramping riots of pouriose and

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froriose. What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the mich-

indaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences and these kraals of

slitsucked marrogbones. (Cave!) He can prapsposterus the pil-

lory way to Hirculos pillar. Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered

women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You toller-

day donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty an-

glease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.

Let us swop hats and excheck a few strong verbs weak oach ea-

ther yapyazzard abast the blooty creeks.

Jute. Yutah!

Mutt. Mukk's pleasurad.

Jute. Are you jeff?

Mutt. Somehards.

Jute. But you are not jeffmute?

Mutt. Noho. Only an utterer.

Jute. Whoa? Whoat is the mutter with you?

Mutt. I became a stun a stummer.

Jute. What a hauhauhauhaudibble thing, to be cause! How,

Mutt?

Mutt. Aput the buttle, surd.

Jute. Whose poddle? Wherein?

Mutt. The Inns of Dungtarf where Used awe to be he.

Jute. You that side your voise are almost inedible to me.

Become a bitskin more wiseable, as if I were

you.

Mutt. Has? Has at? Hasatency? Urp, Boohooru! Booru

Usurp! I trumple from rath in mine mines when I

rimimirim!

Jute. One eyegonblack. Bisons is bisons. Let me fore all

your hasitancy cross your qualm with trink gilt. Here

have sylvan coyne, a piece of oak. Ghinees hies good

for you.

Mutt. Louee, louee! How wooden I not know it, the intel-

lible greytcloak of Cedric Silkyshag! Cead mealy

faulty rices for one dabblin bar. Old grilsy growlsy!

He was poached on in that eggtentical spot. Here

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where the liveries, Monomark. There where the mis-

sers moony, Minnikin passe.

Jute. Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstory-

shortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubba-

ges on to soil here.

Mutt. Just how a puddinstone inat the brookcells by a

riverpool.

Jute. Load Allmarshy! Wid wad for a norse like?

Mutt. Somular with a bull on a clompturf. Rooks roarum

rex roome! I could snore to him of the spumy horn,

with his woolseley side in, by the neck I am sutton

on, did Brian d' of Linn.

Jute. Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly

forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic in such a pat-

what as your rutterdamrotter. Onheard of and um-

scene! Gut aftermeal! See you doomed.

Mutt. Quite agreem. Bussave a sec. Walk a dunblink

roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde

ye plaine of my Elters, hunfree and ours, where wone

to wail whimbrel to peewee o'er the saltings, where

wilby citie by law of isthmon, where by a droit of

signory, icefloe was from his Inn the Byggning to

whose Finishthere Punct. Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr.

Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering

rue. Hither, craching eastuards, they are in surgence:

hence, cool at ebb, they requiesce. Countlessness of

livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as

flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of

whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges

to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!

Jute. 'Stench!

Mutt. Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey. Llarge by the smal an'

everynight life olso th'estrange, babylone the great-

grandhotelled with tit tit tittlehouse, alp on earwig,

drukn on ild, likeas equal to anequal in this sound

seemetery which iz leebez luv.

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Jute. 'Zmorde!

Mutt. Meldundleize! By the fearse wave behoughted. Des-

pond's sung. And thanacestross mound have swollup

them all. This ourth of years is not save brickdust

and being humus the same roturns. He who runes

may rede it on all fours. O'c'stle, n'wc'stle, tr'c'stle,

crumbling! Sell me sooth the fare for Humblin! Hum-

blady Fair. But speak it allsosiftly, moulder! Be in

your whisht!

Jute. Whysht?

Mutt. The gyant Forficules with Amni the fay.

Jute. Howe?

Mutt. Here is viceking's graab.

Jute. Hwaad!

Mutt. Ore you astoneaged, jute you?

Jute. Oye am thonthorstrok, thing mud.

(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios

of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since

We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told

of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They

lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin. Thy thingdome is

given to the Meades and Porsons. The meandertale, aloss and

again, of our old Heidenburgh in the days when Head-in-Clouds

walked the earth. In the ignorance that implies impression that

knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that

convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that

adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that en-

tails the ensuance of existentiality. But with a rush out of his

navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vively-

onview this; queer and it continues to be quaky. A hatch, a celt,

an earshare the pourquose of which was to cassay the earthcrust at

all of hours, furrowards, bagawards, like yoxen at the turnpaht.

Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and

arming bellicose figurines see here. Futhorc, this liffle effingee is for

a firefing called a flintforfall. Face at the eased! O I fay! Face at the

waist! Ho, you fie! Upwap and dump em,

ace to

ace! When a

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part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an

allforabit. Here (please to stoop) are selveran cued peteet peas of

quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make

the tomtummy's pay roll. Right rank ragnar rocks and with these

rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha,

whydidtha? Thik is for thorn that's thuck in its thoil like thum-

fool's thraitor thrust for vengeance. What a mnice old mness it

all mnakes! A middenhide hoard of objects! Olives, beets, kim-

mells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs

(O stoop to please!) are here, creakish from age and all now

quite epsilene, and oldwolldy wobblewers, haudworth a wipe o

grass. Sss! See the snake wurrums everyside! Our durlbin is

sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular

Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the

cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy Wip-

pingham and the his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them

pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her whats-

thats. Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the

same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.

Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one

be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus one make a plaus-

ible free and idim behind. Starting off with a big boaboa and three-

legged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their

mouths. And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue

to con an we can till allhorrors eve. What a meanderthalltale to

unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor

and postproneauntisquattor! To say too us to be every tim, nick

and larry of us, sons of the sod, sons, littlesons, yea and lealittle-

sons, when usses not to be, every sue, siss and sally of us, dugters

of Nan! Accusative ahnsire! Damadam to infinities!

True there was in nillohs dieybos as yet no lumpend papeer

in the waste, and mightmountain Penn still groaned for the micies

to let flee. All was of ancientry. You gave me a boot (signs on

it!) and I ate the wind. I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and

you went to the quod. But the world, mind, is, was and will be

writing its own wrunes for ever, man, on all matters that fall

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under the ban of our infrarational senses fore the last milch-

camel, the heartvein throbbing between his eyebrowns, has still to

moor before the tomb of his cousin charmian where his date is

tethered by the palm that's hers. But the horn, the drinking, the

day of dread are not now. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them,

chap them, cut them up allways; leave them to terracook in the

muttheringpot: and Gutenmorg with his cromagnom charter,

tintingfast and great primer must once for omniboss step rub-

rickredd out of the wordpress else is there no virtue more in al-

cohoran. For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed

of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. Till ye finally

(though not yet endlike) meet with the acquaintance of Mister

Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. Fillstup. So you

need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry

three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of

Doublends Jined (may his forehead be darkened with mud who

would sunder!) till Daleth, mahomahouma, who oped it closeth

thereof the. Dor.

Cry not yet! There's many a smile to Nondum, with sytty

maids per man, sir, and the park's so dark by kindlelight. But

look what you have in your handself! The movibles are scrawl-

ing in motions, marching, all of them ago, in pitpat and zingzang

for every busy eerie whig's a bit of a torytale to tell. One's upon

a thyme and two's behind their lettice leap and three's among the

strubbely beds. And the chicks picked their teeths and the domb-

key he begay began. You can ask your ass if he believes it. And

so cuddy me only wallops have heels. That one of a wife with

folty barnets. For then was the age when hoops ran high. Of a

noarch and a chopwife; of a pomme full grave and a fammy of

levity; or of golden youths that wanted gelding; or of what the

mischievmiss made a man do. Malmarriedad he was reverso-

gassed by the frisque of her frasques and her prytty pyrrhique.

Maye faye, she's la gaye this snaky woman! From that trippiery

toe expectungpelick! Veil, volantine, valentine eyes. She's the

very besch Winnie blows Nay on good. Flou inn, flow ann.

Hohore! So it's sure it was her not we! But lay it easy, gentle

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mien, we are in rearing of a norewhig. So weenybeeny-

veenyteeny. Comsy see! Hetwis if ee newt. Lissom! lissom!

I am doing it. Hark, the corne entreats! And the larpnotes

prittle.

It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld,

when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts,

when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal

ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his love-

saking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and

Jarl van Hoother had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse,

laying cold hands on himself. And his two little jiminies, cousins

of ourn, Tristopher and Hilary, were kickaheeling their dummy

on the oil cloth flure of his homerigh, castle and earthenhouse.

And, be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn only the niece-

of-his-in-law, the prankquean. And the prankquean pulled a rosy

one and made her wit foreninst the dour. And she lit up and fire-

land was ablaze. And spoke she to the dour in her petty perusi-

enne: Mark the Wans, why do I am alook alike a poss of porter-

pease? And that was how the skirtmisshes began. But the dour

handworded her grace in dootch nossow: Shut! So her grace

o'malice kidsnapped up the jiminy Tristopher and into the shan-

dy westerness she rain, rain, rain. And Jarl van Hoother war-

lessed after her with soft dovesgall: Stop deef stop come back to

my earin stop. But she swaradid to him: Unlikelihud. And there

was a brannewail that same sabboath night of falling angles some-

where in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years'

walk in Tourlemonde and she washed the blessings of the love-

spots off the jiminy with soap sulliver suddles and she had her

four owlers masters for to tauch him his tickles and she convor-

ted him to the onesure allgood and he became a luderman. So then

she started to rain and to rain and, be redtom, she was back again

at Jarl van Hoother's in a brace of samers and the jiminy with

her in her pinafrond, lace at night, at another time. And where

did she come but to the bar of his bristolry. And Jarl von Hoo-

ther had his baretholobruised heels drowned in his cellarmalt,

shaking warm hands with himself and the jimminy Hilary and

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the dummy in their first infancy were below on the tearsheet,

wringing and coughing, like brodar and histher. And the prank-

quean nipped a paly one and lit up again and redcocks flew flack-

ering from the hillcombs. And she made her witter before the

wicked, saying: Mark the Twy, why do I am alook alike two poss

of porterpease? And: Shut! says the wicked, handwording her

madesty. So her madesty aforethought set down a jiminy and

took up a jiminy and all the lilipath ways to Woeman's Land she

rain, rain, rain. And Jarl von Hoother bleethered atter her with

a loud finegale: Stop domb stop come back with my earring stop.

But the prankquean swaradid: Am liking it. And there was a wild

old grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere

in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years' walk in

Turnlemeem and she punched the curses of cromcruwell with

the nail of a top into the jiminy and she had her four larksical

monitrix to touch him his tears and she provorted him to the

onecertain allsecure and he became a tristian. So then she started

raining, raining, and in a pair of changers, be dom ter, she was

back again at Jarl von Hoother's and the Larryhill with her under

her abromette. And why would she halt at all if not by the ward

of his mansionhome of another nice lace for the third charm?

And Jarl von Hoother had his hurricane hips up to his pantry-

box, ruminating in his holdfour stomachs (Dare! O dare!), and

the jiminy Toughertrees and the dummy were belove on the

watercloth, kissing and spitting, and roguing and poghuing, like

knavepaltry and naivebride and in their second infancy. And the

prankquean picked a blank and lit out and the valleys lay twink-

ling. And she made her wittest in front of the arkway of trihump,

asking: Mark the Tris, why do I am alook alike three poss of por-

ter pease? But that was how the skirtmishes endupped. For like

the campbells acoming with a fork lance of lightning, Jarl von

Hoother Boanerges himself, the old terror of the dames, came

hip hop handihap out through the pikeopened arkway of his

three shuttoned castles, in his broadginger hat and his civic chol-

lar and his allabuff hemmed and his bullbraggin soxangloves

and his ladbroke breeks and his cattegut bandolair and his fur-

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framed panuncular cumbottes like a rudd yellan gruebleen or-

angeman in his violet indigonation, to the whole longth of the

strongth of his bowman's bill. And he clopped his rude hand to

his eacy hitch and he ordurd and his thick spch spck for her to

shut up shop, dappy. And the duppy shot the shutter clup (Per-

kodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurth-

rumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun!) And they all drank

free. For one man in his armour was a fat match always for any

girls under shurts. And that was the first peace of illiterative

porthery in all the flamend floody flatuous world. How kirssy the

tiler made a sweet unclose to the Narwhealian captol. Saw fore

shalt thou sea. Betoun ye and be. The prankquean was to hold

her dummyship and the jimminies was to keep the peacewave

and van Hoother was to git the wind up. Thus the hearsomeness

of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.

O foenix culprit! Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bo-

num. Hill, rill, ones in company, billeted, less be proud of. Breast

high and bestride! Only for that these will not breathe upon

Norronesen or Irenean the secrest of their soorcelossness. Quar-

ry silex, Homfrie Noanswa! Undy gentian festyknees, Livia No-

answa? Wolkencap is on him, frowned; audiurient, he would

evesdrip, were it mous at hand, were it dinn of bottles in the far

ear. Murk, his vales are darkling. With lipth she lithpeth to him

all to time of thuch on thuch and thow on thow. She he she ho

she ha to la. Hairfluke, if he could bad twig her! Impalpabunt,

he abhears. The soundwaves are his buffeteers; they trompe him

with their trompes; the wave of roary and the wave of hooshed

and the wave of hawhawhawrd and the wave of neverheedthem-

horseluggarsandlisteltomine. Landloughed by his neaghboormis-

tress and perpetrified in his offsprung, sabes and suckers, the

moaning pipers could tell him to his faceback, the louthly one

whose loab we are devorers of, how butt for his hold halibutt, or

her to her pudor puff, the lipalip one whose libe we drink at, how

biff for her tiddywink of a windfall, our breed and washer givers,

there would not be a holey spier on the town nor a vestal flout-

ing in the dock, nay to make plein avowels, nor a yew nor an eye

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to play cash cash in Novo Nilbud by swamplight nor a' toole o'

tall o' toll and noddy hint to the convaynience.

He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth for himself and

all belonging to him and he sweated his crew beneath his auspice

for the living and he urned his dread, that dragon volant, and he

made louse for us and delivered us to boll weevils amain, that

mighty liberator, Unfru-Chikda-Uru-Wukru and begad he did,

our ancestor most worshipful, till he thought of a better one in

his windower's house with that blushmantle upon him from ears-

end to earsend. And would again could whispring grassies wake

him and may again when the fiery bird disembers. And will

again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said. Have

you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding,

will you whoop for my deading is a? Wake? Usgueadbaugham!

Anam muck an dhoul! Did ye drink me doornail?

Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure

like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad. Sure you'd

only lose yourself in Healiopolis now the way your roads in

Kapelavaster are that winding there after the calvary, the North

Umbrian and the Fivs Barrow and Waddlings Raid and the

Bower Moore and wet your feet maybe with the foggy dew's

abroad. Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey

with his shoe hanging, clankatachankata, or a slut snoring with an

impure infant on a bench. 'Twould turn you against life, so

'twould. And the weather's that mean too. To part from Devlin

is hard as Nugent knew, to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier

than its neighbour enfranchisable fields but let your ghost have

no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are, primesigned

in the full of your dress, bloodeagle waistcoat and all, remember-

ing your shapes and sizes on the pillow of your babycurls under

your sycamore by the keld water where the Tory's clay will scare

the varmints and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket,

kerchief, ring and amberulla, the whole treasure of the pyre, in the

land of souls with Homin and Broin Baroke and pole ole Lonan

and Nobucketnozzler and the Guinnghis Khan. And we'll be

coming here, the ombre players, to rake your gravel and bringing

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you presents, won't we, fenians? And it isn't our spittle we'll stint

you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, pennydirts and

dodgemyeyes you buy in the soottee stores. But offerings of the

field. Mieliodories, that Doctor Faherty, the madison man,

taught to gooden you. Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is

the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax, the food for

glory, (mind you keep the pot or your nectar cup may yield too

light!) and some goat's milk, sir, like the maid used to bring you.

Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan

Lalors piped you overborder and there's whole households be-

yond the Bothnians and they calling names after you. The men-

here's always talking of you sitting around on the pig's cheeks

under the sacred rooftree, over the bowls of memory where every

hollow holds a hallow, with a pledge till the drengs, in the Salmon

House. And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat

on high is the mark of your manument. All the toethpicks ever

Eirenesians chewed on are chips chepped from that battery

block. If you were bowed and soild and letdown itself from the

oner of the load it was that paddyplanters might pack up plenty and

when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses

you showed our labourlasses how to free was easy. The game old

Gunne, they do be saying, (skull!) that was a planter for you, a

spicer of them all. Begog but he was, the G.O.G! He's dudd-

andgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq

but peace to his great limbs, the buddhoch, with the last league

long rest of him, while the millioncandled eye of Tuskar sweeps

the Moylean Main! There was never a warlord in Great Erinnes

and Brettland, no, nor in all Pike County like you, they say. No,

nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king.

That you could fell an elmstree twelve urchins couldn't ring

round and hoist high the stone that Liam failed. Who but a Mac-

cullaghmore the reise of our fortunes and the faunayman at the

funeral to compass our cause? If you was hogglebully itself and

most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was

your like to lay the cable or who was the batter could better

Your Grace? Mick Mac Magnus MacCawley can take you off to

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the pure perfection and Leatherbags Reynolds tries your shuffle

and cut. But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale

eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him the journeyall

Buggaloffs since he went Jerusalemfaring in Arssia Manor. You

had a gamier cock than Pete, Jake or Martin and your archgoose

of geese stubbled for All Angels' Day. So may the priest of seven

worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you

as your hair grows wheater beside the Liffey that's in Heaven!

Hep, hep, hurrah there! Hero! Seven times thereto we salute

you! The whole bag of kits, falconplumes and jackboots incloted,

is where you flung them that time. Your heart is in the system

of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copri-

capron. Your feet are in the cloister of Virgo. Your olala is in the

region of sahuls. And that's ashore as you were born. Your shuck

tick's swell. And that there texas is tow linen. The loamsome

roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not

unrested! The headboddylwatcher of the chempel of Isid,

Totumcalmum, saith: I know thee, metherjar, I know thee, sal-

vation boat. For we have performed upon thee, thou abrama-

nation, who comest ever without being invoked, whose coming

is unknown, all the things which the company of the precentors

and of the grammarians of Christpatrick's ordered concerning

thee in the matter of the work of thy tombing. Howe of the ship-

men, steep wall!

Everything's going on the same or so it appeals to all of us,

in the old holmsted here. Coughings all over the sanctuary, bad

scrant to me aunt Florenza. The horn for breakfast, one o'gong

for lunch and dinnerchime. As popular as when Belly the First

was keng and his members met in the Diet of Man. The same

shop slop in the window. Jacob's lettercrackers and Dr Tipple's

Vi-Cocoa and the Eswuards' desippated soup beside Mother Sea-

gull's syrup. Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed. Coal's

short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. And barley's up again,

begrained to it. The lads is attending school nessans regular, sir,

spelling beesknees with hathatansy and turning out tables by

mudapplication. Allfor the books and never pegging smashers

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after Tom Bowe Glassarse or Timmy the Tosser. 'Tisraely the

truth! No isn't it, roman pathoricks? You were the doublejoynted

janitor the morning they were delivered and you'll be a grandfer

yet entirely when the ritehand seizes what the lovearm knows.

Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek, chalking oghres on

walls, and his little lamp and schoolbelt and bag of knicks, playing

postman's knock round the diggings and if the seep were milk

you could lieve his olde by his ide but, laus sake, the devil does

be in that knirps of a Jerry sometimes, the tarandtan plaidboy,

making encostive inkum out of the last of his lavings and writing

a blue streak over his bourseday shirt. Hetty Jane's a child of

Mary. She'll be coming (for they're sure to choose her) in her

white of gold with a tourch of ivy to rekindle the flame on Felix

Day. But Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. You remember

Essie in our Luna's Convent? They called her Holly Merry her

lips were so ruddyberry and Pia de Purebelle when the redminers

riots was on about her. Were I a clerk designate to the Williams-

woodsmenufactors I'd poster those pouters on every jamb in the

town. She's making her rep at Lanner's twicenightly. With the

tabarine tamtammers of the whirligigmagees. Beats that cachucha

flat. 'Twould dilate your heart to go.

Aisy now, you decent man, with your knees and lie quiet and

repose your honour's lordship! Hold him here, Ezekiel Irons, and

may God strengthen you! It's our warm spirits, boys, he's spoor-

ing. Dimitrius O'Flagonan, cork that cure for the Clancartys! You

swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy. Fetch

neahere, Pat Koy! And fetch nouyou, Pam Yates! Be nayther

angst of Wramawitch! Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum,

where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O

sleepy! So be yet!

I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me.

She'll do no jugglywuggly with her war souvenir postcards to

help to build me murial, tippers! I'll trip your traps! Assure a

sure there! And we put on your clock again, sir, for you. Did or

didn't we, sharestutterers? So you won't be up a stump entirely.

Nor shed your remnants. The sternwheel's crawling strong. I

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seen your missus in the hall. Like the queenoveire. Arrah, it's

herself that's fine, too, don't be talking! Shirksends? You storyan

Harry chap longa me Harry chap storyan grass woman plelthy

good trout. Shakeshands. Dibble a hayfork's wrong with her only

her lex's salig. Boald Tib does be yawning and smirking cat's

hours on the Pollockses' woolly round tabouretcushion watch-

ing her sewing a dream together, the tailor's daughter, stitch to

her last. Or while waiting for winter to fire the enchantement,

decoying more nesters to fall down the flue. It's allavalonche that

blows nopussy food. If you only were there to explain the mean-

ing, best of men, and talk to her nice of guldenselver. The lips

would moisten once again. As when you drove with her to Fin-

drinny Fair. What with reins here and ribbons there all your

hands were employed so she never knew was she on land or at

sea or swooped through the blue like Airwinger's bride. She

was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet. She can second a

song and adores a scandal when the last post's gone by. Fond of

a concertina and pairs passing when she's had her forty winks

for supper after kanekannan and abbely dimpling and is in her

merlin chair assotted, reading her Evening World. To see is

it smarts, full lengths or swaggers. News, news, all the news.

Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez. Angry scenes at Stormount.

Stilla Star with her lucky in goingaways. Opportunity fair with

the China floods and we hear these rosy rumours. Ding Tams he

noise about all same Harry chap. She's seeking her way, a chickle

a chuckle, in and out of their serial story, Les Loves of Selskar

et Pervenche, freely adapted to The Novvergin's Viv. There'll

be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night she signs her

final tear. Zee End. But that's a world of ways away. Till track

laws time. No silver ash or switches for that one! While flattering

candles flare. Anna Stacey's how are you! Worther waist in the

noblest, says Adams and Sons, the wouldpay actionneers. Her

hair's as brown as ever it was. And wivvy and wavy. Repose you

now! Finn no more!

For, be that samesake sibsubstitute of a hooky salmon, there's

already a big rody ram lad at random on the premises of his

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haunt of the hungred bordles, as it is told me. Shop Illicit,

flourishing like a lordmajor or a buaboabaybohm, litting flop

a deadlop (aloose!) to lee but lifting a bennbranch a yardalong

(Ivoeh!) the breezy side (for showm!), the height of Brew-

ster's chimpney and as broad below as Phineas Barnum; humph-

ing his share of the showthers is senken on him he's such a

grandfallar, with a pocked wife in pickle that's a flyfire and three

lice nittle clinkers, two twilling bugs and one midgit pucelle.

And aither he cursed and recursed and was everseen doing what

your fourfootlers saw or he was never done seeing what you cool-

pigeons know, weep the clouds aboon for smiledown witnesses,

and that'll do now about the fairyhees and the frailyshees.

Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round

her heavens for ever. Creator he has created for his creatured

ones a creation. White monothoid? Red theatrocrat? And all the

pinkprophets cohalething? Very much so! But however 'twas

'tis sure for one thing, what sherif Toragh voucherfors and

Mapqiq makes put out, that the man, Humme the Cheapner,

Esc, overseen as we thought him, yet a worthy of the naym,

came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial

fermament one tide on another, with a bumrush in a hull of a

wherry, the twin turbane dhow, The Bey for Dybbling, this

archipelago's first visiting schooner, with a wicklowpattern

waxenwench at her prow for a figurehead, the deadsea dugong

updipdripping from his depths, and has been repreaching him-

self like a fishmummer these siktyten years ever since, his shebi

by his shide, adi and aid, growing hoarish under his turban and

changing cane sugar into sethulose starch (Tuttut's cess to him!)

as also that, batin the bulkihood he bloats about when innebbi-

ated, our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous

from his nature, which you may gauge after the bynames was

put under him, in lashons of languages, (honnein suit and

praisers be!) and, totalisating him, even hamissim of himashim

that he, sober serious, he is ee and no counter he who will be

ultimendly respunchable for the hubbub caused in Eden-

borough.