Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Trees and Lili O'Ran- | | 1 |
gans), concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimp- | | 2 |
den's occupational agnomen (we are back in the presurnames | | 3 |
prodromarith period, of course just when enos chalked halltraps) | | 4 |
and discarding once for all those theories from older sources which | | 5 |
would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the | | 6 |
Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers and the Earwickers of Sidles- | | 7 |
ham in the Hundred of Manhood or proclaim him offsprout of | | 8 |
vikings who had founded wapentake and seddled hem in Herrick | | 9 |
or Eric, the best authenticated version, the Dumlat, read the | | 10 |
Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar, has it that it was this way. We are | | 11 |
told how in the beginning it came to pass that like cabbaging | | 12 |
Cincinnatus the grand old gardener was saving daylight under his | | 13 |
redwoodtree one sultry sabbath afternoon, Hag Chivychas Eve, | | 14 |
in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the | | 15 |
rere garden of mobhouse, ye olde marine hotel, when royalty was | | 16 |
announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on | | 17 |
the highroad along which a leisureloving dogfox had cast fol- | | 18 |
lowed, also at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels. For- | | 19 |
getful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch Humphrey | | 20 |
or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface | | 21 |
as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat) hast- | | 22 |
ing to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, solascarf and | | 23 |
plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots ruddled cinnabar with | | 24 |