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by
JAMES JOYCE
HENRY BABOU AND JACK KAHANE
PARIS
THE FOUNTAIN PRESS. - NEW YORK
1930 Title ↑
All rights of publication, reproduction and translation reserved. Copyright by Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, France 1930. (06) ↑
AMTSADAM, sir, to you ! Eternest cit-
tas, heil ! Here we are again. I am bubub
brought up under a camel act of dynasties
long out of print, the first of Shitric Shilkan-
beard (or is it Owllaugh MacAuscullpth the
Thord?), but, in pontofacts massimust, I am
known throughout the world wherever my
good Allenglisches Angleslachsen is spo-
07
↑ken by Sall and Will from Augustanus to
Ergastulus, as this is, whether in Farnum’s
rath or Condra’s ridge or the meadows of
Daikin or Monkish tunshep, by saints and
sinners eyeeye alike as a cleanliving man
and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, I
think how our public at large appreciates it
most highly from me that I am as clean-
living as could be and that my game was a
fair average since I perpetually kept my
ouija ouija wicket up. On my verawife
I never was nor can afford to be guilty of
crim crig con, of malfeasance trespass
against parson with the person of a youthful
gigirl frifrif friend chirped Apples, acted by
Miss Dashe, in Kissilov’s Slutsgartern or
Gigglotte’s Hill, when I would touch to her
dot and feel most greenily of her unripe08
↑
ones as it should prove most anniece and
far too bahad, nieceless to say, to my repu-
tation on Babbyl Malket for daughters-in-
trade being lightly clad. I should her have
awristed under my duskguise of whippers
through toombs and deempeys, lagmen,
was she but tinkling of such a tink. And,
as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself
how I popo possess the ripest littlums wi-
fukie around the globelettes globes upon
which she was romping off on Floss Mun-
dai out of haram’s way round Skinner’s cir-
cusalley first with her consolation prize in
my serial dreams of faire women, Manne-
quins Passe, handicapped by two breasts in
operatops, a remarkable little endowment
garment. Fastened at various places. What
spurt ! I kickkick keenly love such, par-
09
↑ticularly while savouring of their flavours
at their most perfect best when served with
heliotrope ayelips, as this is, where I do
drench my jolly soul on the pu pure beauty
of her past.
She is my bestpreserved wholewife, so-
well her as herafter, in Evans’s eye, with
incompatibly the smallest shoenumber out-
side chinatins. They are jolly dainty spekin
tluly. May we not recommend them? It
was my proofpiece from my prentice ser-
ving. And, alas, our private chaplain of
Lambeyth and Dolekey bishopregionary,
an always sadfaced man, in his lutestring
pewcape with tabinet band, who has
visited our various hard hearts and reins
by imposition of fufuf fingers, olso haddock’s
fumb, in that Upper Room can speak10
↑
loud to you some quite complimentary
things about my clean charactering, even
when detected in the dark, distressful
though such recital prove to me, as this
is, when I introduced her (Frankfurters,
numborines why drive fear?) to our fourpos-
ter tunis chantreying under Castrucci Sinior
and De Mellos, those whapping oldsteirs,
with sycamode euphonium in either nota-
tion in our altogether cagehaused ducky-
heim on Goosna Greene, that cabinteeny
homesweetened through affection’s Hoard-
payns (First Murkiss, or so they sankeyed.
Dodo ! O Clearly ! And Gregorio at front
with Johannes far in back. Aw, aw !) glee-
glom there’s gnome sweepplaces like the-
resweep Nowhergs. By whom, as my
Kerk Findlater’s, ye litel chuch rond ye11
↑
coner and K. K. Katakasm, enjoineth in
the Belief and, as you all know, of a child,
dear Humans, one of my life’s ambitions
of my youngend from an early peepee
period while still to hedjeskool, intended
for broad church, I, being fully alive to it,
was parruchially confirmed in Caulofat’s
bed by our bujibuji beloved curate-author.
Michael Engels is your man. Let Michael
relay Sutton and tell you people here who
have the phoney habit (it was remarketable)
in his clairaudience as this is as only our own
Michael can, when reicherout at su-
perstation, to bring ruptures to our roars
how I am amp ainp amplify. Hiemlancol-
lin Pimpim’s Ornery forninehalf Shaun
Shemsen saywhen saywhen Holmstock
unsteaden. Livpoomark lloyrge hoggs one12
↑
four tupps noying. Big Butter Boost !
Sorry ! Thnkyou ! Thatll beall fortody.
Cal it off ! Godnotch, vryboily. End a
muddy crushmess ! Abbreciades anew York
gustoms. Kyow ! Tak.
— Tiktak. Tikkak.
— Awind abuzz awater falling.
— Poor a cowe his jew placator.
— It’s the damp damp damp.
— Calm has entered. Big big Calm,
announcer. It is most ernst terooly a more-
some intartenment. Colt’s tooth ! I will give
tandsel to it. I protest there is luttrelly
not one teaspoonspill of evidence at bot-
tomlie to my babad as you shall see, as this
is. Keemun Lapsang of first pickings.
And I contango can take off my dudud
dirtynine articles of quoting here in Pynix13
↑
Park before those in heaven to provost
myself, by gramercy of justness I mean
veryman and moremon, stiff and staunch
for ever, and enter under the advicies
from Misrs Norris, Southby, Yates and Weston
inc., to their favoured client, into my pre-
protestant caveat against the pupup publi-
cation of libel by any tix tipsyloon or tob-
tomtowley of Keisserse Lean (a bloweyed
lanejoymt, waring lowbelt suit, with knock-
brecky kenees and bullfist rings round him
and a fallse roude axehand (he is cunvesser
to Saunter’s Nocelettres and the Poe’s
Toffee’s Directory in his pisness), the best
begrudged man in Belgradia who doth not
belease to our paviour); to my nonesuch,
that highest personage at moments holding
down the throne. So to speak of beauty14
↑
scouts in elegant pursuit of flowers sear-
chers for tabernacles and the celluloid art !
Happen seen sore eynes belived? The caca
cad ! He walked by North Strand with his
Thom’s towel in hand. Snakeeye ! Strangler
of soffiacated green parrots ! I protest it that
he is by my wipehalf. He was leaving out
of my double inns while he was all teppling
over my single ixits. So was keshaned on
for his recent behaviour. Sherlook is
lorkin forhim. Allare beltspanners. Get
your air curt ! Shame upon Private M !
Shames on his fulsomeness ! Shamus on
his atkinscum’s lulul lying suulen for an
outcast mastiff littered in blood currish !
Eristocras till Hanging Tower. Steck
ajavelin through his advowtried heart !
Instaunton ! Flap, my Larrybird ! Dan-
15
↑gle, my highflyet ! Jiggety fig my jack-
adandyline ! Let me never see his waddphez
again ! And mine it was Barktholed von
Hunarig, Soesown of Furrows (hourspring-
like his joussture, immitiate my chry ! as
urs now, so yous then !) when to our lot it
fell on my poplar Sexsex, my Sexencentaur-
nary, whenby Gate of Hal, before his hostel
of the Wodin man, I hestened to freeholdit
op to his Mam his Maman, Majuscules, His
Magnus Maggerstick, first city’s leasekuays
of this Nova Tara, our most noble, when
hrossbucked on his pricelist charger Pfer-
dinamd Allibuster (Yeddonot need light oar
till Noreway for you fanned one oer every
doorway) with my allbum’s greethims
through this whole of my promises, hand-
shakey congrandyoulikethems, ecelesensy.16
↑
Whosaw the jackery dares at handgrip-
per thisa breast? Dose makkers ginger.
Some one we was with us all fours. Ad-
versarian ! The spiking Duyvil ! First liar
in Londsend ! Wulv ! See you scargore on that
skeepsbrow ! And those meisies ! Sul-
ken taarts ! Man sicker at I ere bluffet
konservative? Shucks ! Such ratshause
bugsmess so I cannot barely conceive of !
Lowest basemeant in hystry ! Ibscenest
nansence ! Noksagt Per Peeler and Pawr !
The brokerheartened Shugon ! Hole affair
is rotten muckswinish porcupig’s draff.
Enouch !
— Is that yu, Whitehed?
— Have you headnoise now?
— Give us your mespilt reception, will yous?17 ↑
— Pass the fish for Christ’s sake !
— Old Whitehowth he is speaking
again. Ope Eustace tube ! Pity poor whi-
teoath ! Dear gone mummeries, goby !
Tell the woyld I have lived true thousand, hells.
Pity, please, lady, for poor O. W. in this
profundust snobbing I have caught. Nine
dirty years mine age, hairs hoar, mummery
failend, snowdrift to my ellpow, deff as
Adder. I askt you, dear lady, to judge on
my tree by our fruits. I gave you of the
tree. I gave two smells, three eats. My
freeandies, my celeberrimates : my happy
bossoms, my allfalling fruits of my boom.
Pity poor Haveth Childers Everywhere
with Mudder !
That was Communicator, a former Co-
lonel. A disincarnated spirit, called Sebas-
18
↑tion, frorn the Rivera in Januero, (he is not
all hear) may fernspreak shortly with mes-
suages from my deadported. Let us cheer
him up a little and make an appunkment
for a future date. Hello, Commudicate !
How’s the buttes? Everscepistic ! He does
not believe in our psychous of the Real
Absence, neither miracle wheat nor soul-
surgery of P. P. Quemby. He has had
some indiejestings, poor thing, for quite a
little while, confused by his tonguer of
baubble. A way with him ! Poor Felix
Culapert ! Ring his mind, ye staples,
(bonze !) in my ould reekeries’ ballyheart
and in my Krumlin and in aroundisements
and stremmis ! Sacks eleathury ! Sacks
eleathury ! Bam ! I deplore over him ruely.
Mongrieff ! O Hone ! Guestermed with the19
↑
nobelities, to die bronxitic in achershous !
So enjoying of old thick whiles, in haute
white toff’s hoyt of our formed reflections,
with stock of eisen all his prop, so bu-
ckely hosiered from the Royal Leg, and
his puertos mugnum. He would puffout
a dhymful bock. And the how he would
husband her that verikerfully, his cigare
divane ! (He would redden her with his
vestas, but tis naught). With us his ne-
phos and his neberls mest incensed and
befogged by him and his smoke thereof.
But he shall have his glad stein of our
zober beerbest in Oscarshal’s winetavern.
Buen retiro! The boyce voyce is still flau-
tish and his mounth still wears that sold-
ier’s scarlet though the flaxafloyeds are
peppered with salsedine. It is bycause of20
↑
what he was ascend into his prisons on
account off. I whit it wel. Hence his
deepraised words. Some day I may tell of
his second storey. Mood ! Mood ! It looks
like someone other bearing my burdens.
I cannot let it. Kanes nought.
Well, yeamen, I have bared my whole
past, I flatter myself, on both sides. Give
me even two months by laxlaw in second
division and my first broadcloth is business
will be to protest to Recorder at Thing of
all Things, or court of Skivinis, with mar-
chants grey, antient and credibel, Zero-
bubble Barrentone, Jonah Whalley, Deter-
mined Codde or Cucumber Upright, my
jurats, if it does not occur again. O rhyme
us ! Haar Faagher, wild heart in Homelan;
Harrod’s be the naun. Mine kinder come,21
↑
mine wohl be won. There is nothing like
leuther. O Shee ! And nosty mens in glad-
shouses they shad not peggot stones. The
elephant’s house is his castle. I am here
to tell you indeed to goodness that, allbe
I discountenanced beallpersuasions, in ri-
nunciniation of pomps of heretofore, with
a wax too held in hand, I am thorgtfulldt
to do dope me of her miscisprinks and by
virchow of those filthered Ovocnas presen-
tly like Browne umbracing Christina Anya,
after the Irishers, to convert me into a selt
(but first I must proxy babetise my old ante-
naugthies), when as Sigismond Stolterforth,
with Rabbin Robroost for my auspicer and
Leecher Rutty for my lifearst and Lorencz
pattern (Ehren til viktrae !), when I will
westerneyes those poor sunuppers and22
↑
outbreighten their land’s eng. A man
should stump up and I will pay my pretty
decent trade price for my glueglue glue-
cose, peebles, were it even as this is, the
legal eric for infelicitous conduict (here
incloths placefined my pocketanchored-
check) and, as a matter of fact, I under-
take to discontinue entyrely all practices
and I deny wholeswiping in toto at my
own request in all stoytness to have con-
fermentated and confoederated and agreed
in times prebellic when here were waders
for the trainsfolk, as it is now nuggently
laid to me, with a friend from mine, Mr Bil-
lups, pulleter, my quarterbrother, who so-
metimes he is doing my locum for me on a
grubstake and whom I have cleped con-
stoutuent, for so it was felt by me, at good-
23
↑buy cootcoops byusucapiture a mouthless
niggeress, Blanchette Brewster from Cher-
na Djamja, Blawlawnd-via-Brigstow, or to
illsell nmy fourth part in her, which although
allowed of in Deuterogamy as in several places
of Scripture (copyright) and excluded
books (they should quite rightly verbanned
be) would seem eggseggs excessively har-
roween to my feelimbs for two punt scotch,
one pollard and a crockard or three pipples
on the bitch. Thou, Frick’s Flame, Uden
Sulfer, who strikest only on the marryd
bokks, enquick me if so be I did cophetuise
milady’s maid, in spect of her beavers she
is a womanly and sacret. Such wear
a frillick for my comic strip, Mons Meg’s
Monthly, comes out aich Fanagan’s wake,
to bray at by clownsillies in Donkey-
24
↑brook Fair. It would lackin mackin
Hodder’s and Cocker’s erithmatic. The
unpurdonable preempson of all of her
of yourn, by Juno Moneta ! If she, iris-
hed Marryonn Teheresiann, has been
disposed of for her consideration, I, Led-
widge Salvatorious, am tradefully unintiri-
stid. And if she is still further talc slop-
ping over her cocoa contours, I hwat mick
angars, am strongly of opinion why I should
not be. Improbable ! I do not credit one
word of it. Just feathers ! Nanenities ! Or
to have ochtroyed to resolde or borrough
by exchange same super melkkaart, means
help; best Brixton high yellow, no ou-
tings, cent for cent on Auction’s Bridge.
’Twere a honnibel crudelty wert so tente-
ment to their naktlives and scatab orgias25
↑
we devour about in the mightyevil roohms
of enceint cartage. Utterly improperable !
Not for old Crusos or white soul of gold !
A pipple on the panis, two claps on the
cansill, or three pock pocks cassey knocked
on the postern ! Not for one testey tickey
culprik’s coynds ore for all ecus in cunzie-
howffse ! So hemp me Cash. I meanit.
My herrings ! The surdity of it ! Amean
to say. Her bare idears, it is choochoo
chucklesome. Absurd bargain, mum, will
call. One line, with ! One line, with with !
Will ate everadayde saumone like a boyne
alive O. The tew cherripickers, with their
Catheringnettes, Lizzy and Lissy Mycock
from Street Fleshshambles, were they
moon at aube with hespermun and I their
covin guardient, I would not know to con-
26
↑tact such gretched youngsters in my ways
from Haddem or any suistersees or hei-
resses of theirn, claiming by, through, or
under them. Ous of their freiung pfann
into myne foyer. Her is one which ras-
sembled to mein enormally. The man
what shocked his shanks at contey Car-
low’s. He is Deucollion. Each habe go-
heerd, uptaking you are innersence, but
we sen you meet sose infance. Deucollion !
Odor. Evilling chimbes is smutsick rivul-
verblott but thee hard casted thereass pig-
stenes upann Congan’s shootsmen in Schot-
tenhof, ekeascent ? Igen Deucollion ! I
liked his Gothamm chic ! Stuttertub !
What a shrubbery trick to play ! I will
put my oathhead unner my whitepot for
ransom of beeves and will stand me27
↑
where I stood mine in all free heat bet-
ween Pelagios and little Chistayas by
Roderick’s our mosttnonolith, after my
both earstoear and brebreeches buybibles
and minhatton testify to my unclothed vir-
tue by the longstone erectheion of our all-
first manhere. I should tell you that ho-
nestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked. I
always think in a wordworth’s of that pri-
med favourite continental poet, Daunty,
Gouty and Shopkeeper, A. G. whom
the generality admoyers in this that
is and that this is to come. Like as my
palmer’s past policy I have had my best
master’s lessons as the public he knows,
and do you know, homesters, I honestly
think if I have failed lamentably by accident
benefits though shintoed, spitefired, perpla-
28
↑gued and cramkrieged, I am doing my dids
bits and have made of my prudentials good.
I have been told I own stolemines or some-
thing of that sorth in the sooth of Spainien.
Hohohoho ! Have I said ogso how I abhor
myself vastly (truth to tell) and do repent to
my netherheart of suntry clothing? The
amusin part is I will say, hotelmen, that
since I, over the deep drowner athacleeath
to seek again Irrlanding, shamed in mind,
with three plunges of my ruddertail,
yet not a bottlenim, vanced imperial standard
by weaponright and platzed mine residenze,
taking bourd and burgage under starri-
misty and ran and operated my brixtol se-
lection here at thollstall for mean straits
male with evorage fimmel, in commune soc-
cage among strange and enemy, among29
↑
these plotlets, in Poplinstown, alore Fort
Dunlip, then-on-sea, hole of Serbonian bog,
now city of magnificent distances, good-
walldabout, with talus and counterscarp
and pale of palisades, upon martiell siegewin
with Abbot Warre to blesse on yon slau-
chterday of cleantarriffs, in that year which
I have called myriabellous, and overdrave
these marken (the soord on whencehislaws
was mine and mine the prusshing stock of
Allbrecht the Bearn), under patroonshaap
of our good kingsinnturns T. R. H. Urban
First and Champaign Chollyman and Hun-
gry the Loaved and Hangry the Hathed
here where my tenenure of office and my
toils of domestication first began, with
weight of woman my Skat and Skuld but
Flukie of the Ravens as my sure piloter,30
↑
famine with Englisch sweat and oppede-
mics the twotoothed dragon worms with
allsort serpents, has compolitely seceded
from this landleague of many nations and
open and notorious naughty livers are
found not on our rolls. This seat of our
city it is of all sides pleasant, comfortable
and wholesome. If you would traverse
hills, they are not far off. If champain land,
it lieth of all parts. If you would be deli-
ted with fresh water, the famous river cal-
led of Ptolemy the Libnia Labia runneth
fast by. If you will take the view of the
sea, it is at hand. Give heed !
— Do Drumcollogher whatever you do !
— Visitez Drumcollogher-la-Belle !
— Be suke and sie so Ersed Drumcol-
logher !31
↑
— Vedi Drumcollogher e poi moonis.
Things are not as they were. Let me
briefly survey. Pro clam a shun ! Pip ! Peep !
Pipitch ! Ubipop jay piped, ibipep goes the
whistle, here Tyeburn throttled, massed
murmars march: where the bus stops there
shop I : here which ye see yea reste. On
me, your sleeping giant, Estoesto ! Estote
sunto ! From the hold of my capt in altitude
till the mortification that’s my fate. The
end of aldest mosest ist the beginning of all
thisorder so the last of their hansbailis shall
the first in our sheriffsby. New highs for
all ! Redu Negru may be black in tawn but
under them lintels are staying my horney-
men meet each his mansiemagd. For
peers and gints, quaysirs and galleyliers,
fresk letties from the say and stale heady-
32
↑gabblers, gaingangers and dudder wago-
ners, pullars off societies and pushers on
Rothmere’s homes. Obeyance from the
townsmen spills felixity by the toun. Our
bourse and politico-ecomedy are in safe
with good Jock Shepherd, our lives are on
sure in sorting with Jonathans wild and
great. Been so free ! Thank you besters !
Hattentats have mindered. Blaublaze de-
vilbobs have gone from the mode and hair-
trigger nicks are quite out of time now.
Thuggeries are reere as glovars’ metins,
lepers lack, ignerants show beneath suspi-
cion like the bitterhalves of esculapuloids.
In midday’s mallsight let Miledd discur-
verself. Meludd in her hide park seek
Minuinette. All is waldly bonums. Blow-
nose aerios we luft to you ! Firebugs good33
↑
blazes ! Lubbers, kepp your poudies drier !
Seamen, we segn your skivs and wives.
Seven ills so barely as centripunts havd
I habt, seaventy seavens for circumfe-
rence inkeptive are your hill prospect.
Braid Blackfordrock, the Calton, the Li-
berton, Craig and Lockhart’s, A. Costo-
fino, R. Thursitt. The chort of Nicholas
Within was my guide and I raised a dome
on the wherewithouts of Michan: by awful
tors my well worth building sprang sky
spearings spires, cloud cupoled campaniles :
further this. By fineounce and imposts I
got and grew and by grosscruple gat I
grown ontreachesly : murage and lestage
were my mains for Ouerlord’s tithing and
my drains for render and prender the doles
and the tribute : I was merely out of my34
↑
mint with all the percussors on my brain-
cap till I struck for myself and muched mo-
rely by token : to Sirrherr of Garnbelden
ruddy money, to Madame of Pitymount I
loue yous. Paybads floriners moved in
hugheknots against us and I matt them,
pepst to papst, barthelemew : milreys
(mark !) onfell, and (Luc !) I arose Daniel in
Leonden. Bulafests onvied ine, Corkcut-
tas graatched. Atabey ! I braved Brien
Berueme to berow him against the Lough-
lins, all her talkies shraking : Fugabol-
lags ! Lusqu’au bout ! If they had ire back
of eyeball they got danage on front tooth :
theres vvere revelries at ridottos, here was
rivalry in redoubt: I wegschicked Duke
Wellinghof to reshockle Roy Shackleton :
Walhalloo, Walhalloo, Walhalloo, mourn35
↑
in plein ! Under law’s marshall and War-
schouw did I thole till lead’s plumbate, ping
on pang, reliefed me. I made praharfeast
upon acorpolous and fastbroke down in
Neederthorpe. I let faireviews in on Slo-
bodens but ranked rothgardes round wrath-
mindsers : I bathandbaddend on mendicity
and I corocured off the unoculated. Who
can tell their tale whorn I filled ad liptum
on the plain of Saulsbury ? With three
hunkered peepers and twa and twas ! For
sleeking beauties I spinned their nightin-
veils, to slumbred beast I tummed the thief
air. Round the musky moved a murmel, but
mewses whinninared and belluas zoomed:
tendulcis tunes like water parted fluted up
from the westinders while from gorges in
the east came the strife of ourangoontan-
36
↑gues. All in my thicville Escuterre ofen
was thorough fear but in the meckling of
my burgh Belvaros was the site forbed :
tuberclerosies I reized spudully from the
murphyplantz Hawkinsonia and berriber-
ries from the pletoras of the Irish shou. I
heard my libertilands inaking free through
their curraghcoombs, my trueblues hurusa-
laming before Wailingtone’s Wall : I rich-
mounded the rainelag in my bathtub of
roundwood and conveyed it with cheers and
cables, roaring mighty shouts, through my
longertubes of elm : out of fundness for the
outozone I carried them amd curried them
in my Putzemdown cars to my Kommean-
dine hotels : I made sprouts fontaneously
from Philuppe Sobriety in the coupe that’s
cheyned for noon inebriates : when they37
↑
weaned weary of that bibbing I made infu-
sion more infused: sowerpacers of the vine-
garth, obtemperate unto me ! When you
think me in my coppeecuffs look in ware
would you meckamockame, as you pay in
caabman’s sheltar tot the ites like you corss
the tees. Wherefore watch ye well ! For,
while I oplooked the first ofJanus’s straight,
I downsaw the last of Christmas steps: syn-
dic podestril and on the rates, I for indigent
and intendente: in Forum Foster I demos-
threnated my folksfiendship enmy pupuls
felt my burk was no worse than their brite :
Sapphrageta and Consciencia were unde-
cidedly attached to me but the maugher
machrees and the auntieparthenopes my
schwalby words with litted spongelets set
their soakey pokeys and botchbons afume :38
↑
Fletcher-Flemmings, elisaboth, how inter-
quackeringly they rogated me, their golden
one, I inhesitant made replique : Mesde-
memdes to leursieuresponsor: and who in
hillsaide, don’t you let flyfire till you see
their whites of the bunkers’ eyes? Mr An-
swers : Brimgem young, bringem young,
bringem young !: in my bethel of Solyman’s
I accouched their rotundaties and I turn-
keyed most insultantly over raped lutetias
in the lock : I gave bax of biscums to the
jacobeaters and pottage bakes to the esaus-
ted : I dehlivered them with freakandesias
by the constant droppings from my smalls
instalmonths while I titfortotalled up their
farinadays for them on my slataper’s slate
with my chandner’s chauk : I jaunted on
my jingelbrett rapt in neckloth and sashes,39
↑
and I beggered about the amnibushes like
belly in a bowle. In the humanity of my
heart I sent out heyweywomen to refresh
the ballwearied and then, doubling mega-
lopolitan poleetness, my great great grea-
test of these charities, devaleurised the base
fellows for the curtailment of their lower
man : with a slog to square leg I sent my
boundary to Botany Bay and I ran up a
score and four of mes while the Yanks were
huckling the Empire : I have been reci-
ping om omominous letters and widelysi-
gned petitions full of pieces of pottery about
my monumentalness as a thingabolls and
I have been inchanting causeries to the
feshest cheoilboys so that they are allcal-
ling on me for the song of a birtch : the
more secretely bi built, the more openly40
↑
palastered. Attent ! Couch hear ! I havebec-
ket my vonderbilt hutch in sunsmidnought
at morningrise was encampassed of mush-
roofs. Rest and bethinkful, with licence,
thanks. I considered the lilies on the veldt
and unto Balkis did I disclothe mine glory.
And this. This missy my taughters, and
these man my son, from my fief of the villa
of the Ostmanorum to Thorstan’s, recte
Thomars Sraid and from Huggin Pleaze to
William Inglis his house that man de
Loundres, in all their barony of Saltus,
bonders and foeburghers, helots and zelots,
strutting oges and swaggering macks, the
darsy jeamses, the drury joneses, redmaids
and bleucotts, in hommage all and felony,
all who have received tickets, fair home
overcrowded, tidy but very little furniture,41
↑
respectable, whole family attends daily
mass and is dead sick of bread and butter,
sometime in the militia, mentally strained
from reading work on german physics,
shares closet with eight other dwellings,
more than respectable, getting comfortable
parish relief, wageearner freshly shaven
from prison, highly respectable, planning
new departure in mountgomery cyclefinis-
hing, eldest son will not serve but peruses
Big-man-up-in-the-sky scraps, anoopana-
doon lacking backway, quasi respectable,
pays ragman in bones for faded window-
curtains, staircase continually lit up with
guests, particularly respectable, house lost
in dirt and blocked with refuse, getting
on like roe’s distillery on fire, slovenly
wife active with the jug, in business for41
↑
himself, has a tenth illegitimate coming,
partly respectable, following correspon-
dence courses, chucked work over row,
both cheeks kissed at levee by late mar-
quess of Zetland, sharing closet which
is profusely written over with eleven
other subscribers, once respectable, open
hall-way pungent of Baltic dishes, bangs
kept woman’s head against wall thereby
disturbing neighbours, private chapel occu-
pies return landing, removal every other
quarter day, case one of peculiar hopeless-
ness, most respectable, night soil has to
be removed through snoring household,
excentric naval officer not quite steady
enjoys weekly churchwarden and laugh
while reading foreign pictorials on clug-
strump before door, known as the trap,43
↑
widow rhumatic and chars, haunted, con-
demned and execrated, of dubious respec-
tability, tools too costly pledged or unin-
sured, reformed philantropist whenever
feasable takes advantage of unfortunates
against dilapidating ashpits, serious student
is eating his last dinners, floor dangerous for
unaccompagnied old clergymen, thoroughly
respectable, many uncut pious books in evi-
dence, nearest water tap two hundred yards
run away, fowl and bottled gooseberry fre-
quently on table, man has not had boots off
for twelve months, infant being taught to
hammer flat piano, outwardly respectable,
sometimes hears from titled connection, one
foot of dust between banister and cracked
wall, wife cleans stools, eminently respec-
table, ottawark and regular loafer, should be44
↑
operated would she consent, deplorable rent
in roof, claret cellar cobwebbed since the
pontificate of Leo, wears drill trousers and
collects rare buddhas, underages very trea-
cly and verminous have to be separated, sits
up with fevercases for one and threepence,
owns two terraces (back to back breeze),
respectable in every way, harmless imbecile
supposingly weakminded, a sausage every
Sunday, has a staff of eight servants, lieabed
sons go out with sisters immediately after
dark, has never seen the sea, travels always
with her eleven trunks of clothing, starving
cat left in disgust, the pink of respectability,
resting after colonial service, labours at
plant, the despair of his many benefac-
tresses, calories exclusively from rowntrees
and dunplings, one bar of sunlight does45
↑
them all january and half february, the V.
de V’s (animal diet) live in five storied semi-
detached but rarely pay tradesmen, went
security for friend who absconded, shares
same closet with fourteen similar cottages
and an illfamed lodging house, more respec-
table than some, teawidow pension but held
to purchase, inherited silk hat from father-
in-law, head of domestic economy never
mentioned, queery how they live, reputed
to procure, last four occupants carried
out, mental companionship with mates
only, respectability unsuccessfully aimed
at, copious holes emitting mice, decoration
from Uganda chief in locked ivory casket,
grandmother has advanced alcoholic
amblyopia, the terror of goodmens’ field,
and respected and respectable, as respec-
46
↑table as respectable can respectably be,
though their orable amission were the
herrors I have expected, all, let them all
come they are my villeins, with chartularies
I have talledged them. Wherfor I will and
firmly command, as I willed and firmly
commanded upon my royal word and
cause the great seal now to be affixed, that
from the farthest of the farther of their
fathers to their childrens’ childrens’ chil-
dren they do inhabit it and hold it for me
unencumbered and my heirs firmly and
quietly, amply and honestly, and with all
the liberties and free customs which the
men of Tolbris a city of Tolbris, have at
Tolbris, in the county of their city and
through whole my land. Hereto my vou-
chers knive and snuffbuchs. Fee for farm.47
↑
Enwreak us wrecks. Struggling forlongs I
have livramentoed milles on milles of man-
cipelles. Lo I have looked upon my pum-
padears in their easancies and my drummers
have tattled tall tales of me in the land : in
morgenattics litt I hope : in seralcellars lou-
ched I bleakmealers on my siege of my
mighty I was parciful of my subject but
in street wauks that are darkest I debelle-
dem superb : I deemed the drugtails in
my pettycourts and domstered dustyfeets
in my husinclose : at Guy’s they were swa-
thed, at Foulkes’s slashed, the game for a
Gomez, the loy for a lynch: if I was magmo-
nimoss as staidy lavgiver I revolucanized by
my eructions : the hye and bye wayseeds I
scattered em, in my graben fields sew
sowage I gathered em : in Sheridan’s Circle48
↑
my wits repose, in black pitts of the peste-
red Lenfant he is. dummed. (Hearts of
Oak, may ye root to piece ! Rechabites ob-
stain. Clayed sheets, pineshrouded, wake
not ! walk not !). Quo warranto has his
greats my soliven and puissant lord V. king
regards for me and he has given to me my
necknamesh (flister it !) which is second fid-
dler to nomen. These be my genteelician
arms. A t the crest, two young frish, etoiled
flappant, devoiled of their habiliments, ves-
ted sable, withdrewers argent. For the
boss a Coleopter, pondant, partifesswise
blazond sinister, at the slough, proper. In
the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking
unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in
saltire, embusked, sinople. Motto, in let-
ters potent: Hery Crass Evohodie. Idle49
↑
were it repassing from elserground to the
elder disposition, to inquire whether I,
draggedasunder, be the forced generation
of group marriage holocryptogam, of my
essenes, or carried of cloud from land of
locust, in ouzel galley borne, I, huddled til
summone be the massproduct of teamwork,
three surtouts wripped up in itchother’s,
two twin pritticoaxes lived as one, trou-
bled in trine or dubildin too, for abram
nude be I or roberoyed with the faineans,
or Feejeean grafted ape on merfish, sur-
rounded by obscurity, by my virtus of crea-
tion and by boon of promise, by my natural
born freeman’s journeymanright, and my
otherchurch’s inher light, in so and such a
manner as me it so besitteth, most surely
I pretend and reclam to opt for simulta-
50
↑neous. Till daybowbreak and shoshadows
flee. Thus be hek. Verily ! Verily ! Time,
place !
— What is your numb? Bun !
— Who gave yu that numb? Poo !
— Have you put in all your sparepen-
nies? I’m listening. Sree !
— Keep clear of propennies ! Kore !
— Mr Televox, Mrs Taubiestimm and
invisible friends. I maymay mean to say.
Annoyin part of it was, had faithful Fulvia,
following the wiening courses of this world
turned her back on her ways to gon on
uphills upon search of louvers,brunette men
Earalend, Chief North Paw and Chief
Goes in Blackwater and Chief Brown
Poole and Chief Night Cloud by the
Deeps, or again had Fluvia, amber whitch51
↑
she was, left her chivily crookcrook crocus
bed at the bare suggestions of some prol-
ling bywaymen from Moabit who could
have abused of her, the foxrogues, there
might accrue advantage to ask wher in
pellmell her deceivers sinned. Yet know
it was vastly otherwise which I have heard
it by my goods waif, as I, chiefly endmost,
hartyly aver, for Fulvia Fluvia iddle wo-
man to the plusneeborn, ever did ensue
tillstead the things that pertained unto
fairnesse, this wharom I am fawned on,
that which was loost. Even so, for I waged
love on her : and spoiled her undines.
And she wept : O my lors !
— Till we meet !
— Ere we part !
— Tollollall !52 ↑
— This time a hundred years !
— But I was firm with her. And I did
take the reached of my delights, my jealousy,
and did raft her flumingworthily and did
leftlead her overland the pace, from lacks-
leap up to liffsloup, tiding down, as por-
treeve should, whimpering by Kevin’s
creek and Hurdlesford and Gardener’s
Mall, long Rivierside Drive, embankment
large, to Ringsend Flott and Ferry, where
she began to bump a little bit, my dart to
throw : and there by wavebrink, on strond
of south, with mace to masthigh, taillas
Cowhowling quailless Highjakes, did I
upriesed my magicianer’s puntpole and I
bade those polyfizzyboisterous seas to retire
with hemselves from os (rookwards, thou53
↑
seasea stamoror !) and I abridged with dom-
fine norsemanship till I had done abate her
maidan race, my baresark bride, and knew
her fleshly when with all my bawdy did I
her whorship, min bryllupswibe : Heaven,
he hallthundered, Heydays, he flung bliss-
forhers. And I cast my tenspan joys on
her, arsched overtupped, from bank of call
to echobank, by dint of strongbow (Galata !
Galata !) so streng we were in one, males-
tream in shegulf : and to ringstresse I
thumbed her with iern of Erin and trades-
manmarked her lieflang mine for all and
singular iday, igone, imorgans, and for er-
vigheds : base your peak, you ! you, strike
your flag ! : (what screech of shippings !
What low of dampfbulls !) from Livland
hoks zivios, from Lettland skall vives ! With54
↑
Impress of Asias and Queen Columbia for
her pairanymphs and the singing sands for
herbrides’ music goosegaze annoynted uns,
canailles canzoned, and me to she her shy-
blumes lifted :and I pudd a name and wed-
lock boltoned round her the which to carry
till her grave, my durdin dearly, Appia Lip-
pia Pluviabilla, whiles I herr lifer amstell
and been : I chained her chastemate to
grippe fiuming snugglers, her chambrett I
bestank so to spunish furiosos: I was her ho-
chsized, her cleavunto, her everest, she was
my annie, my lauralad, my pisoved: who cut
her ribbons when nought my prowes? who
expoused that havenliness to beachalured
ankerrides when not I, freipforter? : in tri-
nity huts they met my dame, pick of their
poke for me : when I foregather twas my54
↑
sumbad, if I farseeker itch my list : had I
not workit in my cattagut with dogshunds’
crotts to clene, and, had I not gifted of my
coataways, constantonoble’s aim : and, for-
tiffed by my right as man of capitol, I did
umgyrdle her about, my vermincelly vina-
gerette, with all loving kindness as far as in
man’s might it lay, and enfranchised her to
liberties of fringes : and I gave until my
lilienyounger turkeythighs soft goods and
hardware (catalogue, passim) and ladder-
proof hosiery lines (see stockinger’s rai-
ment), cocquette coiffs (see Agnes’ hats)
and peningsworths of the best of taste of
knaggs of jets and silvered waterroses and
geegaws of my pretty novelties and wispy-
waspy frocks of redferns and lauralworths,
trancepearances such as women cattle bare56
↑
ande peltries piled, the peak of Pim’s and
Slyne’s and Sparrow’s loomends day, lumi-
neused luxories on looks, La Primamère,
Pyrrha Pyrrhine, Or de Reinebeau, Sou-
rire d’Hiver, and a crinoline, wide a shire, a
nd pattens for her trilibies that know she
might the tortuours of the boots and bedes
of wampun with to toy and a murcery glaze
of shard to mirrow, for all daintiness by me
and theetime, the cupandnaggin hour: and
I wound around my swanchen’s neckplace
a school of shells of moyles marine to swing
their saysangs in her silents : and, upping
her at King’s count, her aldritch cry olos
unheading, what though exceeding bitter, I
pierced her beak with order of the Dana-
brog (Cunnig’s great ! Soll leve ! Soll leve !
with mare’s greese cressets at Leonard’s and57
↑
Dunphy’s and Madonna lanthorns before
quintacasas and tallonkindles spearhead syn-
geing nickendbookers and mhutton light-
burnes dipdippingdownes in blackholes,
the tapers of the topers and his buntingpall
at hoist !) : for days there was no night for
nights were days and our folk had rest
from Blackheathan and the pagans from the
Prince of pacis : what was trembling sod
quaked no more, what were frozen loins
were stirred and lived : gone the septuor,
dark deadly dismal doleful desolate dread-
ful desperate, no more the tolvmaans, bloody
gloomy hideous fearful furious alarming ter-
rible mournful sorrowful frightful appal-
ling: peace, perfect peace : and I hung up
at Yule my duindleeng lunas, helphelped of
Kettil flashnose, for the souperhore of my58
↑
frigid one, coloumba mea, frimosa mea, in
Wastewindy Tarred strate and Elgin’s mar-
ble halles lamping limp from black to block
through all Livania’s volted ampire from
anodes to cathodes and from the topazolits
of Mourne, Wykinloeflare, by Arklow’s sap-
phire siomen’s lure and Waterford’s hook
and crook lights to the polders of Hy Kin-
sella: avenyue ceen my peurls ahumming,
the crown to my estuarine munipicence? :
three firths of the sea I swept with draugh-
tness and all ennempties I bottled em up in
bellomport. When I stabmaroonedjack and
maturin I was a bad boy’s bogey but it was
when I went on to sankt piotersbarq that
they gave my devil his due: what is seizer
can hack in the old wold a sawyer may hew
in the green : on the island of Breasil the59
↑
wildth of me perished and I took my plow-
shure sadly feeling pity for me sored: where
bold O’Conee weds on Alta Mahar, the
tawny sprawling beside that silver burn, I
sate me and settled with the little crither of
my hearth : her intellects I charmed with I
calle them utile thougts, her turlyhyde I
plumped with potatums for amiens pease
in plenty : my biblous beadells shewed her
triumphs of craftygild pageantries, loftust
Adam duffed our cousterclother, Conn and
Owel with cortoppled baskib, Sire Noeh
Guinass exposant of his bargeness and lord
Joe Starr to hump the body of the camel :
I screwed the Emperor down with nine-
pins gaelic with sixpennyhapennies for his
hanger on : my worthies were bissed and
trissed from Joshua to Godfrey but my pro-
60
↑cessus prophetarum they would have plau-
ded to perpetuation. Moral: book to besure,
see press.
— Hes not all buum and bully.
— But his members handly food him.
— Steving’s grain for’s greet Collegtium.
— The S. S. Paudraic’s in the harbour.
And after these things, I fed her, my
carlen, my barelean linsteer, upon spiceries
for her garbage breath, italics of knobby
lauch and the rich morsel of the marrolebone
and shains of garleeks and swinespepper
and gothakrauts and pinkee dillisks, primes
of meshallehs and subtleties in jellywork,
come the feast of St Pancreas, and shortcake
nutrients for Paas and Pingster’s pudding,
bready and nutalled and potted fleshmeats
from store dampkookin, and the drugs of61
↑
Kafa and Jelupa and Shallots out of Asca-
lon, feeding her food convenient herfor,
to pass then into earth : and to my saffron-
breathing mongoloid, the skinsyg, I gave
Biorwik’s powlver and uliv’s oils, unguents
of cuticure, for the swarthy searchall’s face
on her, with handewers and groinscrub-
bers and a carrycam to teaze her tussy out,
the brown but combly, a mopsa’s broom
to duist her sate, and clubmoss and wolves-
foot for her more moister wards (amazing
efficiencies !) : and my shopsoiled doveling,
when weeks of kindness kinly civicised, in
our saloons esquirial with fineglas bow-
bays, draped embrasures, and giltedged
librariums I did devise my telltale sports at
evenbread to wring her withers limberly,
wheatears, slaphung, drapier-cutdean, bray,61
↑
nap, spinado and ranter-go-round: we had
our lewd mayers and our lairdie meiresses
kiotowing and smuling fullface on us out
of their framous latenesses, oilclothed over
for cohabitation and allpointed by Hind :
Tamlane the Cussacke, Dirk Wettingstone,
Pi ten Stuyvesant, Outlawrie O’Niell,
Mrs Currens, Mrs Reyson-Figgis, Mrs Dat-
tery and Mrs Pruny-Quetch : in hym we
trust, footwash and sects principles, apply to
overseer, Amos five six : she had dabbling-
time for exhibiting her grace of aljambras and
duncingk the bloodanoobs in her vauxhalls
while I, dizzed and dazed by the lumpty
thumpty of our interloopings, fell clocksure
off my ballast. In our windtor palast it
vampared for Elenders, we lubded Sur
Gudd for the sleep and the ghoasts. She63
↑
chauffed her feusies at my Wigan’s jewels
while she skalded her mermeries on my
Snorryson’s Sagos : in paycook’s thron-
saale she domineered, lecking icies off the
dormer panes all admired her in camises :
on Rideau Row Duanna, dwells, you merk
well what you see : let wellth were I our
pantocreator would theirs be tights for the
gods : in littlered ridinghats and cindery
yellows and tinsel and glitter and bibs un-
der hoods : I made nusance of many well
pressed champdamors and peddled freely in
the scrub: I foredreamed for thee and more
than fullmaked : I prevened for thee in the
haunts that joybelled frail light-a-leaves for
sturdy traemen, pelves ad hombres sumus : I
said to the shiftless prostitute : let me be
your fodder; and to rodies and prater bro-
64
↑thers, Chau, Camerade ! : evangel of good
tidings omnient as the Healer’s word, for
the lost, loathsome and whomsoever will;
who, in regimentation through liberal do-
nation in coordination for organisation of
their installation and augmentation plus
some annexation and amplification without
precipitation towards the culmination in
latification of what was formerly their utter
privation, competence, cheerfulness, use-
fulness and the meed, shall in their second
adams all be made alive. My tow tugs stee-
red down canal grand, my lighters lay long-
side on Regalia Water. And I built in
Urbs in Rure, for minne elskede my shiny
brows, under astrolobe from my upserva-
tory, an erdcloset with showne ejector
wherewithin to be squatquit in most cove-
65
↑nience from her sabbath needs, when open
noise should stilled be : did not I festfix
with mortarboard my unniversiries, wholly
rational and gottalike, sophister agen sore-
fister, life sizars all? : was not I rosetted on
two stelas of little egypt? had not I rockcut
reders, hieros, gregos and democriticos?:
triscastellated, bimedallised : and by my
sevendialed changing charties Hibernska
Ulitzas made not I to pass through 12 Thre-
adneedles and Newgade and Vicus Vene-
ris to cooinsight?: my camels walk, kolossa
kolossa ! no porte sublimer benared my
ghates: oi polled ye many but my fews were
chousen (Voter, voter, early voter, he was
never too oft for old Sarum): terminals four
my staties were, the Geenar, the Greasou-
wea, the Debwickweck, the Migreawis.66
↑
And I sept up twinminsters, the pro and
the con, my stavekirks wove so norcely of
peeled wands and attachatouchy floodmud,
now all loosebrick and stonefest, freely ma-
soned, arked for covenanters and shinners’
rifuge : descent from above on us, Hagia-
sofia of Astralia, our orisons thy nave and
absedes, our aeone tone aeones thy stud-
vaast vault; Hams, circuitise ! Shemites re-
trace !: horns, hush ! no barkeys ! hereround
is’t holied ! : all truanttrulls made I co-
mepull, all rubbeling gnomes I pushed,
gowgow : Cassels, Redmond, Gandon,
Deane, Shepperd, Smyth, Neville, Hea-
ton, Stoney, Foley, Farrel, Vnost with
Thorneycroft and Hogan too : sprids serve
me ! gobelins guard ! : tect my tileries, (O
tribes ! O gentes !) keep my keep, the peace67
↑
of my four great ways : oathiose infernals
to booth Salvation, arcane celestials to
Sweatenburgs Welhell ! My seven wynds
I trailed to maze her and ever a wynd had
saving closes and all these closes flagged
with the gust, hoops for her, hatsoff for
him and ruffies through Neeblow’s gar-
ding: and that was why Blabus was razing
his wall and eltering the suzannes of his
nighboors : and thirdly, for ewigs I did
reform and restore for my smuggy pig-
giesknees my sweet coolocked my auburn
coyquailing one, her paddypalace on
the crossknoll with massgo bell, sixton,
clashcloshant duominous and muezzatin-
ties to commind the fitful : doom adim-
dim adoom adimadim : and the oragel of
the lauds to tellforths’ glory : and added68
↑
thereunto a shallow laver to slub out her
hellfire and posied windows for her oriel
house : gospelly pewmillieu christous pew-
millieu : zackbutts babazounded ollguns ta-
rarulled : and she sass her nach, chillybom-
bom and forty bonnets, upon the altarstane.
May all have mossyhonours.
— Hoke !
— Hoke !
— Hoke !
— Hoke !
And wholehail snaeffell, dreardrizzle or
sleetshowers of blessing where it froze in
chalix eller swum in the vestry, with fair-
skin book and ruling rod, vien of my vergin
page, her chastener ever I did learn my
little ana countrymouse in alphabeater
cameltemper, from alderbirk to tannenyou,69
↑
with myraw rattan atter dundrum ; ooah,
oyir, oyir, oyir; and I did spread before
my Livvy, where Lord street lolls and ladies
linger and Cammomile Pass cuts Primrose
Rise and Coney Bend bounds Mulbreys
Island but never a blid had bledded or
bludded since long agore when the whole
blighty acre was bladey well pessovered,
my selvage mats of lecheworked lawn, my
carpet gardens of Guerdon City, with
chopes pyramidous and mousselimes and
beaconphires and colossets and pensilled
turrisses for the busspleaches of the sum-
miramies and esplanadas and statuesque
and templeogues the Pardonell of May-
nooth, Fra Teobaldo, Nielsen, rare admi-
rable, Jean de Porteleau, Conall Gretecloke
Guglielmus Caulis and the eiligh ediculous70
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Passivucant (glorietta’s inexellsiored !) :
for irkdays and for folliedays till the
comple anniums of calendarias, gregoro-
maios and gyspsyjuliennes as such are
pleased of theirs to walk : and I planted
for my own hot lisbing lass a quikset vine-
yard and I fenced it about with huge
Chesterfield elms and Kentish hops and
rigs of barlow and bowery nooks and
greenwished villas and pampos animos
and (N. I.) necessitades iglesias and pons
for aguaducks : a hawthorndene, a feyrie-
glenn, the hallaw vall, the dyrchace, Fin-
mark’s Howe, against lickybudmonth and
gleanermonth with a magicscene wall (rim-
rim ! rimrim !) for a Queen’s garden of her
phoenix and (hush ! hush !) I brewed for my
alpine plurabelle wigwarming wench (spea-
71
↑keasy !) my granvilled brandold Dublin lin-
dub, the free, the froh, the frothy freshener,
puss, puss, pussyfoot, to split the spleen of
her maw : and I laid down before the trot-
ters to my eblanite my stony battered
waggonways, my nordsoud circulums, my
eastmoreland and westlandmore, running
boullowards and syddenly parading (hear-
semen, opslo ! nuptiallers get storting !) :
whereon, in mantram of truemen like ya-
hoomen (expect till dutc cundoctor sum-
moneth him all fahrts to pay, velkommen
all hankinhunkn in this vongn of Hos-
seyeh !) claudesdales withe arabinstreeds,
Roamer Reich’s rickyshaws with Hispain’s
king’s trornpateers, madridden mustangs,
buckarestive bronchos, poster shays and
turnintaxis, and tall tall tilburys and nod72
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nod noddies, others gigging gaily, some
sedated in sedans : my priccoping gents
aroger, aroger, my damsels softsidesaddled
covertly, covertly, and Lawdy Dawe a perch
behind: the mule and the hinnyand the jen-
net and the mustard nag and piebald Shjel-
ties and Skewbald awknees steppit lively
(lift ye the left and rink ye the right !) for her
pleashadure : and she lalaughed in her did-
dydid domino to the switcheries of the
whip. Down with them ! Kick ! Playup !
Mattahah ! Marahah ! Luahah ! Joahana-
hanahana !(73)
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