The following is the first draft of the earliest section of II, ii, "The Muddest Thick;" to which is appended the first version of the closing pages.


    He Franky was a great at dab A great dab was Franky at the manual arith, sure enough, that's why the bekase he knew no boy better what how why his ten fingures were given him for whatfor. Anyhow Anyhows he was always fond fond always of cardinals. Always would he reciting be areciting and arecreating them up by a heart rota from fursed to laced [quickmarch to decemvir] like to throway your hat at purpely [till the on to tall spilicans] so as to know the tall tenners thumbs down, ace, deuce, tricks, quarts, quims and on the other hand, sexes, suppers, oglers, novels and dices. What signifies all that but he always caught dull marks in his nucleud and ailgobrew. O, it bate him up.
Binomeans to be understood comprendered.
The axidianones aximones.
Equal to = hsaoc.
    Ploto Ploato. So, Comic cuts was always in page fond and flirty so always at long last as it would happen had he to bid goodby adeuce to the cardinhands he so liked. It would be then dear hearts of my counting farewell to back numbers & please lick one and turn over to problem.
    Construct an equiliteral equilittoral triangle. Like an eckoustra! Can you do her? I can't, ken you? I cont, ken you? Easy Simpl an kisshams. First, Take a mouthful mugful of mud. [Oglores!] What wd I do that for? [That a gooses goosey ganswer you give so it is, what wd you do that for?] Just for the beginning. You take your madder river mud. Any living (liffey) mud will do. Dump it at a given point of coast to be called a but pronounced olfa. There's mud island & a. Bene.
 
    The following, added to Joyce's second draft of "The Muddest Thick," is the first version of the long parenthesis on Shem which bisects the math lesson. Beginning on MS 47482 a, 71, Joyce continued writing on MS pp. 65, 62 b, 63 (bottom), 61 b, 59 b, and 60. I am including the passage here in what would be its approximate position in the second draft.
 
    Now (he'd for Dolph, Dean of idles venite sine tute sine mora dumque de eis entibus nascituris decentius in lingua [romana] mortuorum mysterium parva charta livianum liviana] ostenditur, [tute] sedentes [in laetitia] super ollas carniurn et spectantes situm quo lutetiae unde auspiciis secundis tantae surgete consurgent humana humanae stirpes antiquam antiquissimam [flaminum amborum] Jordani [et Jambaptistae] sapientiam sapienti mentibus revolvamus totum [lute] fluvii modo [mundo] fluere eadem quae [ex aggere] fuerunt fututa fuere iterum [inter alveum] - - - fore futura quodlibet sese [ipsissimum ipsum] per aliudpiam scere agnoscere [contrarium] ominis amnis omnem [demum] amnem ripas ripis rivalibus amplecti very frequently recurrently often coached backward ribellium ribollium tending boys mikes of the same and over his own age choirage, among of whom he was pulled up, changing letters for them to bonnes mottes and blending themes tschemes for them em in tropadores and devising witty stingling tingling tailwords whilst he would smile upon eggways ned [, he would,] and trim pick upon his ten 10 ordinailed ungles, telling himself a five reel of funny funnish funic stories ficts on upon the sly shy how first of all and on second thoughts and third is third's the charm charmhim girlalove and fourthermore and filthily and back from oxyton oxaton Oxatown and baroccidents and proper accidence and hepta hopetohell and hexenshoes; & in point of act after his when he landed in Ireland Leinster Ireland Leinster for the 2nd time in his fourmaster and jollyboat [the good barque Celestine Christiana Christiane de Troy], he converted many many square leagues of the natives, boys youths young ordands and men their elders, to put off their hats barcelonas from their old sinful bodies corpucules as often as they passed came within sight of another familiar temple and showed them the celestine way to by instruction his threecards (tristar) and example examples his hattricks and, bejove, that same gallic galloroman rite is very prevalent down up to this windy night in soiree all over what was before that a land of nods in spite of all the blood, all the brains, all the brawn, all the bile, that was shed, that were shot, that was shook all the while for our people have still a great healing faith in the old ways innovated by him and it is verily believed

that not all the liquor soupcans that's in the queen's cellar and not all the gold that the Indus contains would ever induce them to go back to their ancient time honoured habits which as in his response having listened carefully (curefully) to his continental curses they let drop as a dumbbody drops without another word too either as quick swift as puddywhack: and talking of missions in general — of course, this has nothing blameall in the world to say to his private tuitions when, so to put it, on the shaughraun and re to return for a moment also to the first landing (only for a moment) if the pretty elizabess [she lost her heart, a song says, and] beauty alone
knows when she is now now is she [or in what countree [that was the belle of the chapel]] or on what limbs-to-lave her semicupiose eyes are planting kindling themselves [brightly] — who then (4.32 m.p. to be precise [according to the all three doctor's doctors' [synchronising] waterburies [to the ticklings tickleticks, of the synchronisms, all listening,] a time confirmed by the 4th medical officer & his clerk with notary, whose presence was required by law)] gave him the advantage of a good bath cuddlebath at her own fair hands proper mits if she then (4.32 [m.p.] to be precise according to the three worthy wakebailifs as repeated before) but she could never have foreseen forfelt such a cold douche as him coming back to Erin under another a waterproof name — would it wash — to buy her back in, ay, faith, and the bessies other mavourneen (mavourneens) besides, for 'twas he was the born suborner, man, on behalf of an oldestablished firm mark of winebakers, Lagrimae Lagrimatae Lagrima and Gemiti later Grinding & Nashe [lately of Landsend Corner, man]; it must have been a terrible grief mavromvrone mavrue mavrone for whohowhowhow? the poor girl!: all [so] isoladed, and no wonder so many of the men people male members offered upped to console with her in true tears and groans and that's not the last of it either - would it were! - - - but to think of him finding a second elizabess an eliza the second also called bess where he did and how he did — (I) forget now was it in a street or by per accident — and to  try to think of that her hands across the sea trying to get all that bearded virility into her limited lap at the same time for towelling purposes ends as if he were a nine months' babe baber: well, dear me and you, if that is what this gentle passion has is come amour, which to in (of) gentle breast (broost) rathe is intaken, is coming (seems circling) to out there yondest heaven help holp the hindmost and yet it begins to look like it it does indeed by my fay, and it is no use your trying preaching to stop it either or telling praying human beings claspers to take warning by the past: for, if an you could see peep inside the cerebral saucepan of any one adolescent you would see in that house of thought many a litter convolouli convolvuli suggestive of other times, lost or strayed, & lands, derelict or sunk, ay and other tongues ____ too, and not alone that but, looking far into futurity faturity, your own convolouli would reel to fancy jazzfancy the fresh taking takinplace of what stale words were originally whilom found for woven on & fitted fairly featly too: and the best of it is that whereas the pioneer pathfinder side of the new pupilteacher type duplex will soon begin set on to tell lark to you that no man mouth has the right might to set a boundary mearbound to the march of a language lenguage languidge landsmaul a in a (half a) second syllable sylb the beast of burden commonsense commonsince comeonsince on of the larking round the other side if not the open confession of its over presumptuous partner is going to tell you is going to whisht to you coybells) you must draw the line somewhere.

* soon begin to tell you that no man has the right to set a boundary to the march of a language a second the beast of burden commonsense on other side if not the open confession of its over presumptuous partner is going to tell you) you must draw the line somewhere.
 

** soon set on to lark to you that no mouth has the might to set a mearbound to the march of a lenguage languidge landsmaul in a (half a) syllable sylb the beast of burden  commonsince comeonsince of the larking round the other side is going to whisht to you coybells) you must draw the line somewhere.

 

David Hayman: Joyce, James / A first-draft version of Finnegans wake