In the first version of III.1 we find the following comic exchange between a Shemish interlocutor and Shaun: 

- And what, dear Shaun, would be the biography of your softbodied uniform?

- None whatsoever, Shaun replied, All of it was handed over by me among my neighbours of every description, the poor evicted tenants. Therefore I am simply enveloped, as you perhaps see, in one of Guinness's registered barrels.

Hayman, David / The "Wake" in transit 

This passage, which occupies spaces remaining after the revision of 1.4's second part, seems to have been written as an extension and amplification of the Shem passage cited above. We may see it also as an early and remarkably ambitious version not only of chapter I.5 but of the entire female plot line. More immediately, Joyce may have seen it as a part of the introduction to the Letter. If so, its concluding segment either would have been designed to close the frame of a relatively brief development or, given its form, would have established the germ of yet another sketch. 

I shall quote the passage in its revised form: 

And congruously enough the confusion of its composition was fitly capped by the zigzaggery of its delivery and not for the 1st time in history Just as, it has been more than once pointed out, the demise of one parish priest or curate is sure to be followed sooner or later by other parochial demises allied nature. Though coming now to the postman hastily left on p 80, though his qualifications for that particular postal or office were known only to a limited circle of friends the spectacle, of the Lucalizod lettercarrier a most capable official of very superior appearance in his empty bottlegreen jerkin, at once gave doubters a vouch for his bilateralist zeal. His movements showed that North & South sides of the roadway were visited by him in turn in the discharge of his important duty during which he got a n[umber] of stumbles which appeared to startle him very much and while he allowed simple & unfranked correspondence to escape automatically from the mailbag issued to him, the unerring zeal with which amid a blizzard with low visibility and on unevenground [he] sorted & secured for immediate home delivery all packages containing bullion or eatables, made of Shawn the Post a man, seen, felt for, envied & looked up to. 

Thus, was a woman's petition, maid, wife & mother, brought by two sons of wild earth, since Sainted scholarly, Iacopus Pennifera, and Johannes Epistolophorus, to their and of all the Lord, offering to him from whom all things had come [?] their gift of her knowledge, thereby giving him of his own (the lion's mouth) 

It was this last alone that at last gave HCE the raspberry. Groaning of spirit, he lifted his hands & many who did not dare it, heard him say: I will give £10 tomorrow & gladly to the 1st fellow who will put that W in the royal canal.

Very little of this passage, which was written in space left on the bottoms of pages, was used in anything resembling this form. The last paragraph was freely transcribed below the postscript of the Letter's second draft. An earlier version of the delivery paragraph, dating from the summer of 1923, is found in notebook VI.B. 10 in a section containing other Letter-related materials: "I will give £10 to anyone who will put her in canal" (B.10. 106). The final version, which is followed by some curious rough notes, reads: 

but when the facsimile of the letter written by the joint author finally reached the alderman's ears, his surprise was practically complete so much so as to give him the raspberry. With groanings which cd not be all uttered down he sat, he lifted up his shirtsleeves, while many in the baronet publican's banner room, who did not dare heard him declare: I will give £10 tomorrow gladly to the 1st fellow who will put her in the royal canal.5' 

Hayman, David / The "Wake" in transit