FINNEGANS WAKE

James Joyce

 

Book III

chapter 2

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    Jaunty Jaun, as I was shortly before that made aware, next
halted to fetch a breath, the first cothurminous leg of his night-
stride being pulled through, and to loosen (let God's son now be
looking down on the poor preambler!) both of his bruised
brogues that were plainly made a good bit before his hosen were,
at the weir by Lazar's Walk (for far and wide, as large as he was
lively, was he noted for his humane treatment of any kind of
abused footgear), a matter of maybe nine score or so barrelhours
distance off as truly he merited to do. He was there, you could
planemetrically see, when I took a closer look at him, that was to
say, (gracious helpings, at this rate of growing our cotted child of
yestereve will soon fill space and burst in systems, so speeds the
instant!) amply altered for the brighter, though still the graven
image of his squarer self as he was used to be, perspiring but
happy notwithstanding his foot was still asleep on him, the way
he thought, by the holy januarious, he had a bullock's hoof in his
buskin, with his halluxes so splendid, through Ireland untran-
scended, bigmouthed poesther, propped up, restant, against a
butterblond warden of the peace, one comestabulish Sigurdsen,
(and where a better than such exsearfaceman to rest from roving
the laddyown he bootblacked?) who, buried upright like the
Osbornes, kozydozy, had tumbled slumbersomely on sleep at
night duty behind the curing station, equilebriated amid the
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    Now, there were as many as twentynine hedge daughters out
of Benent Saint Berched's national nightschool (for they seemed
to remember how it was still a once-upon-a-four year) learning
their antemeridian lesson of life, under its tree, against its warn-
ing, beseated, as they were, upon the brinkspondy, attracted to
the rarerust sight of the first human yellowstone landmark (the
bear, the boer, the king of all boors, sir Humphrey his knave
we met on the moors!) while they paddled away, keeping time
magnetically with their eight and fifty pedalettes, playing foolu-
fool jouay allo misto posto, O so jaonickally, all barely in their
typtap teens, describing a charming dactylogram of nocturnes
though repelled by the snores of the log who looked stuck to
the sod as ever and oft, when liquefied, (vil!) he murmoaned
abasourdly in his Dutchener's native, visibly unmoved, over his
treasure trove for the crown: Dotter dead bedstead mean diggy
smuggy flasky!
    Jaun (after he had in the first place doffed a hat with a rein-
forced crown and bowed to all the others in that chorus of praise
of goodwill girls on their best beehiviour who all they were girls
all rushing sowarmly for the post as buzzy as sie could bie to read
his kisshands, kittering all about, rushing and making a tremen-
dous girlsfuss over him pellmale, their jeune premier and his rosy-
posy smile, mussing his frizzy hair and the golliwog curls of him,
all, but that one; Finfria's fairest, done in loveletters like a trayful
of cloudberry tartlets (ain't they fine, mighty, mighty fine and
honoured?) and smilingly smelling, pair and pair about, broad
by bread and slender to slimmer, the nice perfumios that came
cunvy peeling off him (nice!) which was angelic simply, savouring
of wild thyme and parsley jumbled with breadcrumbs (O nice!)
and feeling his full fat pouch for him so tactily and jingaling
his jellybags for, though he looked a young chapplie of sixtine,
they could frole by his manhood that he was just the killingest
ladykiller all by kindness, now you, Jaun, asking kindlily (hillo,
missies!) after their howareyous at all with those of their dolly-
begs (and where's Agatha's lamb? and how are Bernadetta's
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tuggerfunnies?) he next went on (finefeelingfit!) to drop a few
stray remarks anent their personal appearances and the contrary
tastes displayed in their tight kittycasques and their smart fricky-
frockies, asking coy one after sloy one had she read Irish legginds
and gently reproving one that the ham of her hom could be
seen below her hem and whispering another aside, as lavariant,
that the hook of her hum was open a bittock at her back to have
a sideeye to that, hom, (and all of course just to fill up a form
out of pure human kindness and in a sprite of fun) for Jaun, by
the way, was by the way of becoming (I think, I hope he was)
the most purely human being that ever was called man, loving all
up and down the whole creation from Sampson's tyke to Jones's
sprat and from the King of all Wrenns down to infuseries) Jaun,
after those few prelimbs made out through his eroscope the
apparition of his fond sister Izzy for he knowed his love by her
waves of splabashing and she showed him proof by her way of
blabushing nor could he forget her so tarnelly easy as all that
since he was brotherbesides her benedict godfather and heaven
knows he thought the world and his life of her sweet heart could
buy, (brao!) poor, good, true, Jaun!
          Sister dearest, Jaun delivered himself with express cordia-
lity, marked by clearance of diction and general delivery, as he
began to take leave of his scolastica at once so as to gain time
with deep affection, we honestly believe you sorely will miss us
the moment we exit yet we feel as a martyr to the dischurch of
all duty that it is about time, by Great Harry, we would shove
off to stray on our long last journey and not be the load on ye.
This is the gross proceeds of your teachings in which we were
raised, you, sis, that used to write to us the exceeding nice letters
for presentation and would be telling us anun (full well do we
wont to recall to mind) thy oldworld tales of homespinning and
derringdo and dieobscure and daddyho, these tales which reliter-
ately whisked off our heart so narrated by thou, gesweest, to
perfection, our pet pupil of the whole rhythmetic class and the
mainsay of our erigenal house, the time we younkers twain were
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been laid up with Castor's oil on the Parrish's syrup (the night
we will remember) for to share our hard suite of affections with
thee.
    I rise, O fair assemblage! Andcommincio. Now then, after
this introit of exordium, my galaxy girls, quiproquo of directions
to henservants I was asking his advice on the strict T.T. from
Father Mike, P.P., my orational dominican and confessor doctor,
C.C.D.D. (buy the birds, he was saying as he yerked me under
the ribs sermon in an offrand way and confidence petween peas
like ourselves in soandso many nuncupiscent words about how he
had been confarreating teat-a-teat with two viragos intactas about
what an awful life he led, poorish priced, uttering mass for a
coppall of geldings and what a lawful day it was, there and then,
for a consommation with an effusion and how, by all the manny
larries ate pignatties, how, hell in tunnels, he'd marry me any
old buckling time as flying quick as he'd look at me) and I am
giving youth now again in words of style byaway of offertory
hisand mikeadvice, an it place the person, as ere he retook him
to his cure, those verbs he said to me. From above. The most
eminent bishop titular of Dubloonik to all his purtybusses in
Dellabelliney. Comeallyedimseldamsels, siddle down and lissle
all! Follow me close! Keep me in view! Understeady me saries!
Which is to all practising massoeurses from a preaching freer and
be a gentleman without a duster before a parlourmade with-
out a spitch. Now. During our brief apsence from this furtive
feugtig season adhere to as many as probable of the ten com-
mandments touching purgations and indulgences and in the long
run they will prove for your better guidance along your path of
right of way. Where the lisieuse are we and what's the first sing
to be sung? Is it rubrics, mandarimus, pasqualines, or verdidads
is in it, or the bruiselivid indecores of estreme voyoulence and,
for the lover of lithurgy, bekant or besant, where's the fate's to
be wished for? Several sindays after whatsintime. I'll sack that sick
server the minute I bless him. That's the mokst I can do for his
grapce. Economy of movement, axe why said. I've a hopesome's
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mon for ignitious Purpalume to the proper of Francisco Ultramare,
last of scorchers, third of snows, in terrorgammons howdydos.
Here she's, is a bell, that's wares in heaven, virginwhite, Undetri-
gesima, vikissy manonna. Doremon's! The same or similar to be
kindly observed within the affianced dietcess of Gay O'Toole
and Gloamy Gwenn du Lake (Danish spoken!) from Manducare
Monday up till farrier's siesta in china dominos. Words taken in
triumph, my sweet assistance, from the sufferant pen of our joco-
sus inkerman militant of the reed behind the ear.
    Never miss your lostsomewhere mass for the couple in Myles
you butrose to brideworship. Never hate mere pork which is bad
for your knife of a good friday. Never let a hog of the howth
trample underfoot your linen of Killiney. Never play lady's game
for the Lord's stake. Never lose your heart away till you win his
diamond back. Make a strong point of never kicking up your
rumpus over the scroll end of sofas in the Dar Bey Coll Cafeteria
by tootling risky apropos songs at commercial travellers' smokers
for their Columbian nights entertainments the like of White limbs
they never stop teasing or Minxy was a Manxmaid when Murry
wor a Man. And, by the bun, is it you goes bisbuiting His Esaus
and Cos and then throws them bag in the box? Why the tin's
nearly empty. First thou shalt not smile. Twice thou shalt not
love. Lust, thou shalt not commix idolatry. Hip confiners help
compunction. Never park your brief stays in the men's con-
venience. Never clean your buttoncups with your dirty pair of
sassers. Never ask his first person where's your quickest cut to
our last place. Never let the promising hand usemake free of
your oncemaid sacral. The soft side of the axe! A coil of cord, a
colleen coy, a blush on a bush turned first man's laughter into
wailful moither. O foolish cuppled! Ah, dice's error! Never dip
in the ern while you've browsers on your suite. Never slip the
silver key through your gate of golden age. Collide with man,
collude with money. Ere you sail foreget my prize. Where you
truss be circumspicious and look before you leak, dears. Never
christen medlard apples till a swithin is in sight. Wet your thistle
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please of being at a party to any demoralizing home life. That
saps a chap. Keep cool faith in the firm, have warm hoep in the
house and begin frem athome to be chary of charity. Where it
is nobler in the main to supper than the boys and errors of out-
rager's virtue. Give back those stolen kisses; restaure those all-
cotten glooves. Recollect the yella perals that all too often beset
green gerils, Rhidarhoda and Daradora, once they gethobby-
horsical, playing breeches parts for Bessy Sudlow in flesh-
coloured pantos instead of earthing down in the coalhole trying
to boil the big gun's dinner. Leg-before-Wicked lags-behind-
Wall where here Mr Whicker whacked a great fall. Femora-
familla feeled it a candleliked but Hayes, Conyngham and Erobin-
son sware it's an egg. Forglim mick aye! Stay, forestand and
tillgive it! Remember the biter's bitters I shed the vigil I buried
our Harlotte Quai from poor Mrs Mangain's of Britain Court on
the feast of Marie Maudlin. Ah, who would wipe her weeper dry
and lead her to the halter? Sold in her heyday, laid in the straw,
bought for one puny petunia. Moral: if you can't point a lily get
to henna out of here! Put your swell foot foremost on foulardy
pneumonia shertwaists, irriconcilible with true fiminin risirvi-
tion and ribbons of lace, limenick's disgrace. Sure, what is it on the
whole only holes tied together, the merest and transparent washing-
tones to make Languid Lola's lingery longer? Scenta Clauthes
stiffstuffs your hose and heartsies full of temptiness. Vanity flee
and Verity fear! Diobell! Whalebones and buskbutts may hurt
you (thwackaway thwuck!) but never lay bare your breast sec-
ret (dickette's place!) to joy a Jonas in the Dolphin's Barncar
with your meetual fan, Doveyed Covetfilles, comepulsing payn-
attention spasms between the averthisment for Ulikah's wine and
a pair of pulldoors of the old cupiosity shape. There you'll fix
your eyes darkled on the autocart of the bringfast cable but here
till youre martimorphysed please sit still face to face. For if the
shorth of your skorth falls down to his knees pray how wrong
will he look till he rises? Not before Gravesend is commuted. But
now reappears Autist Algy, the pulcherman and would-do per-
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known to all the dallytaunties in and near the ciudad of Buellas
Arias, taking you to the playguehouse to see the Smirching of
Venus and asking with whispered offers in a very low bearded
voice, with a nice little tiny manner and in a very nice little tony
way, won't you be an artist's moral and pose in your nudies as a
local esthetic before voluble old masters, introducing you, left
to right the party comprises, to hogarths like Bottisilly and
Titteretto and Vergognese and Coraggio with their extrahand
Mazzaccio, plus the usual bilker's dozen of dowdycameramen.
And the volses of lewd Buylan, for innocence! And the phylli-
sophies of Bussup Bulkeley. O, the frecklessness of the giddies
nouveautays! There's many's the icepolled globetopper is haunt-
ed by the hottest spot under his equator like Ramrod, the meaty
hunter, always jaeger for a thrust. The back beautiful, the un-
draped divine! And Suzy's Moedl's with their Blue Danuboyes!
All blah! Viper's vapid vilest! Put off the old man at the very
font and get right on with the nutty sparker round the back.
Slip your oval out of touch and let the paravis be your goal.
Up leather, Prunella, convert your try! Stick wicks in your ear-
shells when you hear the prompter's voice. Look on a boa in
his beauty and you'll never more wear your strawberry leaves.
Rely on the relic. What bondman ever you bind on earth I'll be
bound 'twas combined in hemel. Keep airly hores and the worm
is yores. Dress the pussy for her nighty and follow her piggy-
tails up their way to Winkyland. See little poupeep she's firsht
ashleep. After having sat your poetries and you know what
happens when chine throws over jupan. Go to doss with
the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-
mand. The Sully van vultures are on the prowl. And the
hailies fingringmaries. Tobaccos tabu and toboggan's a back
seat. Secret satieties and onanymous letters make the great un-
watched as bad as their betters. Don't on any account acquire
a paunchon for that alltoocommon fagbutt habit of frequenting
and chumming together with the braces of couples in Mr Tun-
nelly's hallways (smash it) wriggling with lowcusses and cock-
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interstipital indecency as between twineties and tapegarters,
fingerpats on fondlepets, under the couvrefeu act. It's the thin
nothing of ramping through a whole suite of smokeless hus-
bands. Three minutes I'm counting you. Woooooon. No triching
now! Give me that when I tell you! Ragazza ladra.! And is that
any place to be smuggling his madam's apples up? Deceitful
jade. Gee wedge! Begor, I like the way they're half cooked.
Hold, flay, grill, fire that laney feeling for kosenkissing disgeni-
cally within the proscribed limits like Population Peg on a hint or
twim clandestinely does be doing to Temptation Tom, atkings
questions in barely and snakking svarewords like a nursemagd.
While there's men-a'war on the say there'll be loves-o'women
on the do. Love through the usual channels, cisternbrothelly,
when properly disinfected and taken neat in the generable way
upon retiring to roost in the company of a husband-in-law or
other respectable relative of an apposite sex, not love that leads
by the nose as I foresmellt but canalised love, you understand,
does a felon good, suspiciously if he has a slugger's liver but I
cannot belabour the point too ardently (and after the lessions of
experience I speak from inspiration) that fetid spirits is the thief
of prurities, so none of your twenty rod cherrywhisks, me
daughter! At the Cat and Coney or the Spotted Dog. And at
2bis Lot's Road. When parties get tight for each other they lose
all respect together. By the stench of her fizzle and the glib of her
gab know the drunken draggletail Dublin drab. You'll pay for
each bally sorraday night every billing sumday morning. When
the night is in May and the moon shines might. We won't meeth
in Navan till you try to give the Kellsfrieclub the goby. Hill or
hollow, Hull or Hague! And beware how you dare of wet cock-
tails in Kildare or the same may see your wedding driving home
from your wake. Mades of ashens when you flirt spoil the lad
but spare his shirt! Lay your lilylike long his shoulder but buck
back if he buts bolder and just hep your homely hop and heed
no horning but if you've got some brainy notion to raise cancan
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borning. Let the love ladleliked at the eye girde your gastricks
in the gym. Nor must you omit to screw the lid firmly on that
to point over obstacles. Ridewheeling that acclivisciously up
windy Rutland Rise and insighting rebellious northers before the
saunter of the city of Dunlob. Then breretonbiking on the free
with your airs of go-be-dee and your heels upon the handlebars.
Berrboel brazenness! No, before your corselage rib is decartilaged,
that is to mean if you have visceral ptossis, my point is, making
allowances for the fads of your weak abdominal wall and your
liver asprewl, vinvin, vinvin, or should you feel, in shorts, as
though you needed healthy physicking exorcise to flush your
kidneys, you understand, and move that twelffinger bowel and
threadworm inhibitating it, lassy, and perspire freely, lict your
lector in the lobby and why out you go by the ostiary on to
the dirt track and skip! Be a sportive. Deal with Nature the great
greengrocer and pay regularly the monthlies. Your Punt's Per-
fume's only in the hatpinny shop beside the reek of the rawny.
It's more important than air      I mean than eats      air (Oop, I
never open momouth but I pack mefood in it) and promotes that
natural emotion. Stamp out bad eggs. Why so many puddings
prove disappointing, as Dietician says, in Creature Comforts
Causeries, and why so much soup is so muck slop. If we
could fatten on the elizabeetons we wouldn't have teeth like
the hippopotamians. However. Likewise if I were in your
envelope shirt I'd keep my weathereye well cocked open for
your furnished lodgers paying for their feed on tally with
company and piano tunes. Only stuprifying yourself! The too
friendly friend sort, Mazourikawitch or some other sukinsin of
a vitch, who he's kommen from olt Pannonia on this porpoise
whom sue stooderin about the maul and femurl artickles and who
mix himself so at home mid the musik and spanks the ivory
that lovely for this your Mistro Melosiosus MacShine MacShane
may soon prove your undoing and bane through the succeeding
years of rain should you, whilst Jaun is from home, get used to
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when closehended together behind locked doors, kissing steadily,
(malbongusta, it's not the thing you know!) with the calfloving
selfseeker, under the influence of woman, inching up to you, dis-
arranging your modesties and fumbling with his forte paws in your
bodice after your billy doos twy as a first go off (take care, would
you stray and split on me!) and going on doing his idiot every
time you gave him his chance to get thick and play pigglywiggly,
making much of you, bilgetalking like a ditherer, gougouzoug,
about your glad neck and the round globe and the white milk and
the red raspberries (O horrifier!) and prying down furthermore to
chance his lucky arm with his pregnant questions up to our past
lives. What has that caught to sing with him? The next fling
you'll be squitting on the Tubber Nakel, pouring pitchers to the
well for old Gloatsdane's glorification and the postequities of
the Black Watch, peeping private from the Bush and Rangers.
And our local busybody, talker-go-bragk. Worse again! Off of
that praying fan on to them priars! It would be a whorable state
of affairs altogether for the redcolumnists of presswritten epics,
Peter Paragraph and Paulus Puff, (I'm keepsoaking them to cover
my concerts) to get ahold of for their balloons and shoot you
private by surprise, considering the marriage slump that's on this
oil age and pulexes three shillings a pint and wives at six and
seven when domestic calamities belame par and newlaids bellow
mar for the twenty twotoosent time thwealthy took thousands
in the slack march of civilisation were you, becoming guilty of
unleckylike intoxication to have and to hold, to pig and to pay
direct connection, qua intervener, with a prominent married member
of the vicereeking squad and, in consequence of the therein-
under subpenas, be flummoxed to the second degree by becoming a
lamplight. Anything but that, for the fear and love of gold! Once
and for all, I'll have no college swankies (you see, I am well
voiced in love's arsenal and all its overtures from collion boys
to colleen bawns so I have every reason to know that rogues'
gallery of nightbirds and bitchfanciers, lucky duffs and light
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and otherwise, messing around skirts and what their fickling in-
tentions look like, you make up your mind to that) trespassing
on your danger zone in the dancer years. If ever I catch you at it,
mind, it's you that will cocottch it! I'll tackle you to feel if you
have a few devils in you. Holy gun, I'll give it to you, hot, high
of Lousyfear fall like nettlerash on the white friar's father that
converted from moonshine the fostermother of the first nancy-
free that ran off after the trumpadour that mangled Moore's melo-
dies and so upturned the tubshead of the stardaft journalwriter
to inspire the prime finisher to fellhim the firtree out of which
Cooper Funnymore planed the flat of the beerbarrel on which
my grandydad's lustiest sat his seat of unwisdom with my tante's
petted sister for the cause of his joy! Amene.
    Poof! There's puff for ye, begor, and planxty of it, all abound
as long as a line! The valiantine vaux of Venerable Val Vous-
dem. If my jaws must brass away like the due drops on my lay.
And the topnoted delivery you'd expected be me invoice! Theo
Dunnohoo's warning from Daddy O'Dowd. Whoo? What I'm
wondering to myselfwhose for there's a strong tendency, to put
it mildly, by making me the medium. I feel spirts of itchery out-
ching out from all over me and only for the sludgehummer's
force in my hand to hold them the darkens alone knows what'll
who'll be saying of next. However. Now, before my upperotic
rogister, something nice. Now? Dear Sister, in perfect leave again I
say take a brokerly advice and keep it to yourself that we, Jaun, first
of our name here now make all receptacles of, free of price. Easy,
my dear, if they tingle you either say nothing or nod. No cheeka-
cheek with chipperchapper, you and your last mashboy and the
padre in the pulpbox enumerating you his nostrums. Be vacillant
over those vigilant who would leave you to belave black on white.
I'd burn the books that grieve you and light an allassundrian bom-
pyre that would suffragate Tome Plyfire or Zolfanerole. Perousse
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pressdom. Apply your five wits to the four verilatest. The Arsdi-
ken's An Traitey on Miracula or Viewed to Death by a Priest
Hunter is still first in the field despite the castle bar, William
Archer's a rompan good cathalogue and he'll give you a riser on
the route to our nazional labronry. Skim over Through Hell
with the Papes (mostly boys) by the divine comic Denti Alligator
(exsponging your index) and find a quip in a quire arisus aream
from bastardtitle to fatherjohnson. Swear aloud by pious fiction
the like of Lentil Lore by Carnival Cullen or that Percy Wynns
of our S. J. Finn's or Pease in Plenty by the Curer of Wars,
licensed and censered by our most picturesque prelates, Their
Graces of Linzen and Petitbois, bishops of Hibernites, licet ut
lebanus, for expansion on the promises, the two best sells on the
market this luckiest year, set up by Gill the father, put out by Gill
the son and circulating disimally at Gillydehooly's Cost. Strike up
a nodding acquaintance for our doctrine with the works of old
Mrs Trot, senior, and Manoel Canter, junior, and Loper de Figas,
nates maximum. I used to follow Mary Liddlelambe's flitsy tales,
espicially with the scentaminted sauce. Sifted science will do your
arts good. Egg Laid by Former Cock and With Flageolettes in Send
Fanciesland. Chiefly girls. Trip over sacramental tea into the long
lives of our saints and saucerdotes, with vignettes, cut short into
instructual primers by those in authority for the bittermint of your
soughts. Forfet not the palsied. Light a match for poor old
Contrabally and send some balmoil for the schizmatics. A hemd
in need is aye a friendly deed. Remember, maid, thou dust art
powder but Cinderella thou must return (what are you robbing
her sleeve for, Ruby? And pull in your tongue, Polly!). Cog that
out of your teen times, everyone. The lad who brooks no
breaches lifts the lass that toffs a tailor. How dare ye be laughing
out of your mouthshine at the lack of that? Keep cool your fresh
chastity which is far better far. Sooner than part with that vesta-
lite emerald of the first importance, descended to me by far from
our family, which you treasure up so closely where extremes
meet, nay, mozzed lesmended, rather let the whole ekumene
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likes. When the gong goes for hornets-two-nest marriage step
into your harness and strip off that nullity suit. Faminy, hold
rushes of. Haul Seton's down, black, green and grey, and hoist
Mikealy's whey and sawdust. What's overdressed if underclothed?
Poposht forstake me knot where there's white lets ope. Whisht!
Blesht she that walked with good Jook Humprey for he made
her happytight. Go! You can down all the dripping you can
dumple to, and buffkid scouse too ad libidinum, in these lassi-
tudes if you've parents and things to look after. That was what
stuck to the Comtesse Cantilene while she was sticking out Mavis
Toffeelips to feed her soprannated huspals, and it is henceforth
associated with her names. La Dreeping! Die Droopink! The
inimitable in puresuet of the inevitable! There's nothing to touch
it, we are taucht, unless she'd care for a mouthpull of white pud-
ding for the wish is on her rose marine and the lunchlight in her
eye, so when you pet the rollingpin write my name on the pie.
Guard that gem, Sissy, rich and rare, ses he. In this cold old
worold who'll feel it? Hum! The jewel you're all so cracked
about there's flitty few of them gets it for there's nothing now
but the sable stoles and a runabout to match it. Sing him a ring.
Touch me low. And I'll lech ye so, my soandso. Show and show.
Show on show. She. Shoe. Shone.
    Divulge, sjuddenly jouted out hardworking Jaun, kicking
the console to his double and braying aloud like Brahaam's ass,
and, as his voixehumanar swelled to great, clenching his manlies,
so highly strong was he, man, and gradually quite warming to
her (there must have been a power of kinantics in that buel
of gruel he gobed at bedgo) divorce into me and say the cur-
name in undress (if you get into trouble with a party you are
not likely to forget his appearance either) of any lapwhelp or
sleevemongrel who talks to you upon the road where he tuck
you to be a roller, O, (the goattanned saxopeeler upshotdown
chigs peel of him!) and volunteers to trifle with your round-
lings for profferred glass and dough, the marrying hand that
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from the eligible ministriss for affairs with the black fremdling,
that enemy of our country, in a cleanlooking light and I don't
hoots in the corner nor three shouts on a hill (were he even
a constantineal namesuch of my very own, Attaboy Knowling,
and like enoch to my townmajor ancestors, the two that are
taking out their divorces in the Spooksbury courts circuits,
Rere Uncle Remus, the Baas of Eboracum and Old Father
about their bristelings), but as true as there's a soke for sakes in
Twoways Peterborough and sure as home we come to newsky
prospect from west the wave on schedule time (if I came any
quicker I'll be right back before I left) from the land of breach
of promise with Brendan's mantle whitening the Kerribrasilian
sea and March's pebbles spinning from beneath our footslips to
carry fire and sword, rest insured that as we value the very name
in sister that as soon as we do possibly it will be a poor lookout
for that insister. He's a markt man from that hour. And why do
we say that, you may query me? Quary? Guess! Call'st thou?
Think and think and think, I urge on you. Muffed! The wrong
porridge. You are an ignoratis! Because then probably we'll
dumb well soon show him what the Shaun way is like how we'll
go a long way towards breaking his outsider's face for him for
making up to you with his bringthee balm of Gaylad and his
singthee songs of Arupee, chancetrying my ward's head into
sanctuary before feeling with his two dimensions for your nup-
tial dito. Ohibow, if I was Blonderboss I'd gooandfrighthisdual-
man! Now, we'll tell you what we'll do to be sicker instead of
compensation. We'll he'll burst our his mouth like Leary to the
Leinsterface and reduce he'll we'll ournhisn liniments to a
poolp. Open the door softly, somebody wants you, dear! You'll
hear him calling you, bump, like a blizz, in the muezzin of the
turkest night. Come on now, pillarbox! I'll stiffen your scribeall,
broken reed! That'll be it, grand operoar style, even should I,
with my sleuts of hogpew and cheekas, have to coomb the brash
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behaitch like solitar. We are all eyes. I have his quoram of
images all on my retinue, Mohomadhawn Mike. Brassup! More-
over after that, bad manners to me, if I don't think strongly about
giving the brotherkeeper into custody to the first police bubby
cunstabless of Dora's Diehards in the field I might chance to
follopon. Or for that matter, for your information, if I get the
wind up what do you bet in the buckets of my wrath I mightn't
even take it into my progromme, as sweet course, to do a rash act
and pitch in and swing for your perfect stranger in the meadow
of heppiness and then wipe the street up with the clonmellian,
pending my bringing proceedings verses the joyboy before a
bunch of magistrafes and twelve good and gleeful men? Filius
nullius per fas et nefas. It should prove more or less of an event
and show the widest federal in my cup. He'll have pansements
then for his pensamientos, howling for peace. Pretty knocks, I
promise him with plenty burkes for his shins. Dumnlimn wimn
humn. In which case I'll not be complete in fighting lust until I
contrive to half kill your Charley you're my darling for you and
send him to Home Surgeon Hume, the algebrist, before his ap-
pointed time, particularly should he turn out to be a man in brown
about town, Rollo the Gunger, son of a wants a flurewaltzer to
Arnolff's, picking up ideas, of well over or about fiftysix or so,
pithecoid proportions, with perhops five foot eight, the usual
X Y Z type, R.C. Toc H, nothing but claret, not in the studbook
by a long stortch, with a toothbrush moustache and jawcrockeries,
alias grinner through collar, and of course no beard, meat and
colmans suit, with tar's baggy slacks, obviously too roomy for
him and springside boots, washing tie, Father Mathew's bridge
pin, sipping some Wheatley's at Rhoss's on a barstool, with some
pubpal of the Olaf Stout kidney, always trying to poorchase mov-
ables by hebdomedaries for to putt in a new house to loot, cigarette
in his holder, with a good job and pension in Buinness's, what
about our trip to Normandy style conversation, with an oc-
casional they say that filmacoulored featured at the Mothrapurl
skrene about Michan and his lost angeleens is corkyshows do
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angry boils with certain references to the Deity, seeking relief
in alcohol and so on, general omnibus character with a dash of
railwaybrain, stale cough and an occasional twinge of claudication,
having his favourite fecundclass family of upwards of a decade,
both harefoot and loadenbrogued, to boot and buy off, Imean.
    So let it be a knuckle or an elbow, I hereby admonish you!
It may all be topping fun but it's tip and run and touch and flow
for every whack when Marie stopes Phil fluther's game to go.
Arms arome, side aside, face into the wall. To the tumble of the
toss tot the trouble of the swaddled, O. And lest there be no
misconception, Miss Forstowelsy, over who to fasten the plight-
forlifer on (threehundred and thirty three to one on Rue the
Day!) when the nice little smellar squalls in his crydle what the
dirty old bigger'll be squealing through his coughin you better
keep in the gunbarrel straight around vokseburst as I recommence
you to (you gypseyeyed baggage, do you hear what I'm praying?)
or, Gash, without butthering my head to assortail whose stroke
forced or which struck backly, I'll be all over you myselx hori-
zontally, as the straphanger said, for knocking me with my name
and yourself and your babybag down at such a greet sacrifice with
a rap of the gavel to a third price cowhandler as cheap as the nig-
gerd's dirt (for sale!) or I'll sma