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         where the liveries, Monomark. There where the mis- 1
         sers moony, Minnikin passe. 2
     Jute.     Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstory- 3
         shortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubba- 4
         ges on to soil here. 5
     Mutt. Just how a puddinstone inat the brookcells by a 6
         riverpool. 7
     Jute.     Load Allmarshy! Wid wad for a norse like? 8
     Mutt.     Somular with a bull on a clompturf. Rooks roarum 9
         rex roome! I could snore to him of the spumy horn, 10
         with his woolseley side in, by the neck I am sutton 11
         on, did Brian d' of Linn. 12
     Jute.     Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly 13
         forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic in such a pat- 14
         what as your rutterdamrotter. Onheard of and um- 15
         scene! Gut aftermeal! See you doomed. 16
     Mutt.     Quite agreem. Bussave a sec. Walk a dun blink 17
         roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde 18
         ye plaine of my Elters, hunfree and ours, where wone 19
         to wail whimbrel to peewee o'er the saltings, where 20
         wilby citie by law of isthmon, where by a droit of 21
         signory, icefloe was from his Inn the Byggning to 22
         whose Finishthere Punct. Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. 23
         Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering 24
         rue. Hither, craching eastuards, they are in surgence: 25
         hence, cool at ebb, they requiesce. Countlessness of 26
         livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as 27
         flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of 28
         whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges 29
         to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize! 30
     Jute.     'Stench! 31
     Mutt.     Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey. Llarge by the smal an' 32
         everynight life olso th'estrange, babylone the great- 33
         grandhotelled with tit tit tittlehouse, alp on earwig, 34
         drukn on ild, likeas equal to anequal in this sound 35
         seemetery which iz leebez luv. 36

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froriose. What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the mich-1
indaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences and these kraals of2
slitsucked marrogbones. (Cave!) He can prapsposterus the pil-3
lory way to Hirculos pillar. Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered4
women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You toller-5
day donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty an-6
glease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.7
Let us swop hats and excheck a few strong verbs weak oach ea-8
ther yapyazzard abast the blooty creeks.9
     Jute.     Yutah! 10
     Mutt.     Mukk's pleasurad. 11
     Jute.     Are you jeff? 12
     Mutt.     Somehards. 13
     Jute.     But you are not jeffmute? 14
     Mutt.     Noho. Only an utterer. 15
     Jute.     Whoa? Whoat is the mutter with you? 16
     Mutt.     I became a stun a stummer. 17
     Jute.     What a hauhauhauhaudibble thing, to be cause! How, 18
         Mutt? 19
     Mutt.     Aput the buttle, surd. 20
     Jute.     Whose poddle? Wherein? 21
     Mutt.     The Inns of Dungtarf where Used awe to be he. 22
     Jute.     You that side your voise are almost inedible to me. 23
         Become a bitskin more wiseable, as if I were 24
         you. 25
     Mutt.     Has? Has at? Hasatency? Urp, Boohooru! Booru 26
         Usurp! I trumple from rath in mine mines when I 27
         rimimirim ! 28
     Jute.     One eyegonblack. Bisons is bisons. Let me fore all 29
         your hasitancy cross your qualm with trink gilt. Here 30
         have sylvan coyne, a piece of oak. Ghinees hies good 31
         for you. 32
     Mutt.     Louee, louee! How wooden I not know it, the intel- 33
         lible greytcloak of Cedric Silkyshag! Cead mealy 34
         faulty rices for one dabblin bar. Old grilsy growlsy! 35
         He was poached on in that eggtentical spot. Here 36

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the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have1
pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights,2
the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys3
of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a4
chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the too-5
ath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Fire-6
bugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevan-7
ses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!8
Year! And laughtears!), these paxsealing buttonholes have quad-9
rilled across the centuries and whiff now whafft to us, fresh and10
made-of-all-smiles as, on the eve of Killallwho.11
     The babbelers with their thangas vain have been (confusium 12
hold them!) they were and went; thigging thugs were and hou-13
hnhymn songtoms were and comely norgels were and pollyfool14
fiansees. Menn have thawed, clerks have surssurhummed, the15
blond has sought of the brune: Elsekiss thou may, mean Kerry16
piggy?: and the duncledames have countered with the hellish fel-17
lows: Who ails tongue coddeau, aspace of dumbillsilly? And they18
fell upong one another: and themselves they have fallen. And19
still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras of the20
field to their shyfaun lovers say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!:21
and, but a little later: Pluck me whilst I blush! Well may they22
wilt, marry, and profusedly blush, be troth! For that saying is as23
old as the howitts. Lave a whale a while in a whillbarrow (isn't24
it the truath I'm tallin ye?) to have fins and flippers that shimmy25
and shake. Tim Timmycan timped hir, tampting Tam. Fleppety!26
Flippety! Fleapow!27
     Hop! 28
     In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a 29
parth a lone who the joebiggar be he? Forshapen his pigmaid30
hoagshead, shroonk his plodsfoot. He hath locktoes, this short-31
shins, and, Obeold that's pectoral, his mammamuscles most32
mousterious. It is slaking nuncheon out of some thing's brain33
pan. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst on the kiep34
fief by here, is Comestipple Sacksoun, be it junipery or febrew-35
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hadde a wickered Kish for to hale dead tunes from the bog look-1
it under the blay of her Kish as she ran for to sothisfeige her cow-2
rieosity and be me sawl but she found hersell sackvulle of swart3
goody quickenshoon ant small illigant brogues, so rich in sweat.4
Blurry works at Hurdlesford.5
         (Silent.) 6
     566 A.D. At this time it fell out that a brazenlockt damsel grieved 7
(sobralasolas!) because that Puppette her minion was ravisht of her8
by the ogre Puropeus Pious. Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeagh-9
bally.10
     1132. A.D. Two sons at an hour were born until a goodman 11
and his hag. These sons called themselves Caddy and Primas.12
Primas was a santryman and drilled all decent people. Caddy13
went to Winehouse and wrote o peace a farce. Blotty words for14
Dublin.15
     Somewhere, parently, in the ginnandgo gap between antedilu- 16
vious and annadominant the copyist must have fled with his17
scroll. The billy flood rose or an elk charged him or the sultrup18
worldwright from the excelsissimost empyrean (bolt, in sum)19
earthspake or the Dannamen gallous banged pan the bliddy du-20
ran. A scribicide then and there is led off under old's code with21
some fine covered by six marks or ninepins in metalmen for the22
sake of his labour's dross while it will be only now and again in23
our rear of o'er era, as an upshoot of military and civil engage-24
ments, that a gynecure was let on to the scuffold for taking that25
same fine sum covertly by meddlement with the drawers of his26
neighbour's safe.27
     Now after all that farfatch'd and peragrine or dingnant or clere 28
lift we our ears, eyes of the darkness, from the tome of Liber Li-29
vidus and, (toh!), how paisibly eirenical, all dimmering dunes30
and gloamering glades, selfstretches afore us our fredeland's plain!31
Lean neath stone pine the pastor lies with his crook; young pric-32
ket by pricket's sister nibbleth on returned viridities; amaid her33
rocking grasses the herb trinity shams lowliness; skyup is of ever-34
grey. Thus, too, for donkey's years. Since the bouts of Hebear35
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sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen.1
Royally? One sovereign punned to petery pence. Regally? The2
silence speaks the scene. Fake!3
     So This Is Dyoublong? 4
     Hush! Caution ! Echoland ! 5
     How charmingly exquisite! It reminds you of the outwashed 6
engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his7
innkempt house. Used they? (I am sure that tiring chabelshovel-8
ler with the mujikal chocolat box, Miry Mitchel, is listening) I9
say, the remains of the outworn gravemure where used to be10
blurried the Ptollmens of the Incabus. Used we? (He is only pre-11
tendant to be stugging at the jubalee harp from a second existed12
lishener, Fiery Farrelly.) It is well known. Lokk for himself and13
see the old butte new. Dbln. W. K. O. O. Hear? By the mauso-14
lime wall. Fimfim fimfim. With a grand funferall. Fumfum fum-15
fum. 'Tis optophone which ontophanes. List! Wheatstone's16
magic lyer. They will be tuggling foriver. They will be lichening17
for allof. They will be pretumbling forover. The harpsdischord18
shall be theirs for ollaves.19
     Four things therefore, saith our herodotary Mammon Lujius 20
in his grand old historiorum, wrote near Boriorum, bluest book21
in baile's annals, f t. in Dyffinarsky ne'er sall fail til heathersmoke22
and cloudweed Eire's ile sall pall. And here now they are, the fear23
of um. T. Totities! Unum. (Adar.) A bulbenboss surmounted up-24
on an alderman. Ay, ay! Duum. (Nizam.) A shoe on a puir old25
wobban. Ah, ho! Triom. (Tamuz.) An auburn mayde, o'brine26
a'bride, to be desarted. Adear, adear! Quodlibus. (Marchessvan.) A27
penn no weightier nor a polepost. And so. And all. (Succoth.)28
     So, how idlers' wind turning pages on pages, as innocens with 29
anaclete play popeye antipop, the leaves of the living in the boke30
of the deeds, annals of themselves timing the cycles of events31
grand and national, bring fassilwise to pass how.32
     1132 A.D. Men like to ants or emmets wondern upon a groot 33
hwide Whallfisk which lay in a Runnel. Blubby wares upat Ub-34
lanium.35
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for in the byways of high improvidence that's what makes life-1
work leaving and the world's a cell for citters to cit in. Let young2
wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth3
behind the butteler's back. She knows her knight's duty while4
Luntum sleeps. Did ye save any tin? says he. Did I what? with5
a grin says she. And we all like a marriedann because she is mer-6
cenary. Though the length of the land lies under liquidation7
(floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glau-8
brous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and9
hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll10
do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on. Paff. To puff the11
blaziness on. Poffpoff. And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty12
times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand13
remonstrancers there'll be iggs for the brekkers come to mourn-14
him, sunny side up with care. So true is it that therewhere's a15
turnover the tay is wet too and when you think you ketch sight16
of a hind make sure but you're cocked by a hin.17
     Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, 18
fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe, we may take our review19
of the two mounds to see nothing of the himples here as at else-20
where, by sixes and sevens, like so many heegills and collines,21
sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swisha-22
wish satins and their taffetaffe tights, playing Wharton's Folly,23
at a treepurty on the planko in the purk. Stand up, mickos!24
Make strake for minnas ! By order, Nicholas Proud. We may see25
and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off26
Corkhill or the bergamoors of Arbourhill or the bergagambols27
of Summerhill or the bergincellies of Miseryhill or the country-28
bossed bergones of Constitutionhill though every crowd has its29
several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each30
harmonical has a point of its own, Olaf's on the rise and Ivor's31
on the lift and Sitric's place's between them. But all they are all32
there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve33
and salve life's robulous rebus, hopping round his middle like34
kippers on a griddle, O, as he lays dormont from the macroborg35
of Holdhard to the microbirg of Pied de Poudre. Behove this36

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The three of crows have flapped it southenly, kraaking of de1
baccle to the kvarters of that sky whence triboos answer; Wail,2
tis well! She niver comes out when Thon's on shower or when3
Thon's flash with his Nixy girls or when Thon's blowing toom-4
cracks down the gaels of Thon. No nubo no! Neblas on you liv!5
Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindme-6
rollingeyes and all the deed in the woe. Fe fo fom! She jist does7
hopes till byes will be byes. Here, and it goes on to appear now,8
she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother,9
a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows10
in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging11
its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking12
there, pussypussy plunderpussy. But it's the armitides toonigh, 13
militopucos, and toomourn we wish for a muddy kissmans to the14
minutia workers and there's to be a gorgeups truce for happinest15
childher everwere. Come nebo me and suso sing the day we16
sallybright. She's burrowed the coacher's headlight the better to17
pry (who goes cute goes siocur and shoos aroun) and all spoiled18
goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy19
spattees and flasks of all nations, clavicures and scampulars, maps,20
keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with21
bloodstaned breeks in em, boaston nightgarters and masses of22
shoesets and nickelly nacks and foder allmicheal and a lugly parson23
of cates and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets, ills and24
ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that25
come fro the hart (bucklied!) and the fairest sin the sunsaw26
(that's cearc!). With Kiss. Kiss Criss. Cross Criss. Kiss Cross.27
Undo lives 'end. Slain.28
     How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly fore- 29
bidden, to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheti-30
cals so as to will make us all lordy heirs and ladymaidesses of a31
pretty nice kettle of fruit. She is livving in our midst of debt and32
laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable), with33
a naperon for her mask and her sabboes kickin arias (so sair! so34
solly!) if yous ask me and I saack you. Hou! Hou! Gricks may35
rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture)36

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umbr. And stand up tall! Straight. I want to see you looking fine1
for me. With your brandnew big green belt and all. Blooming in2
the very lotust and second to nill, Budd! When you're in the3
buckly shuit Rosensharonals near did for you. Fiftyseven and4
three, cosh, with the bulge. Proudpurse Alby with his pooraroon5
Eireen, they'll. Pride, comfytousness, enevy! You make me think6
of a wonderdecker I once. Or somebalt thet sailder, the man me-7
gallant, with the bangled ears. Or an earl was he, at Lucan? Or,8
no, it's the Iren duke's I mean. Or somebrey erse from the Dark9
Countries. Come and let us! We always said we'd. And go abroad.10
Rathgreany way perhaps. The childher are still fast. There is no11
school today. Them boys is so contrairy. The Head does be12
worrying himself. Heel trouble and heal travel. Galliver and13
Gellover. Unless they changes by mistake. I seen the likes in14
the twinngling of an aye. Som. So oft. Sim. Time after time.15
The sehm asnuh. Two bredder as doffered as nors in soun. When16
one of him sighs or one of him cries 'tis you all over. No peace17
at all. Maybe it's those two old crony aunts held them out to the18
water front. Queer Mrs Quickenough and odd Miss Dodd-19
pebble. And when them two has had a good few there isn't much20
more dirty clothes to publish. From the Laundersdale Minssions.21
One chap googling the holyboy's thingabib and this lad wetting22
his widdle. You were pleased as Punch, recitating war exploits23
and pearse orations to them jackeen gapers. But that night after,24
all you were wanton! Bidding me do this and that and the other.25
And blowing off to me, hugly Judsys, what wouldn't you give26
to have a girl! Your wish was mewill. And, lo, out of a sky! The27
way I too. But her, you wait. Eager to choose is left to her shade.28
If she had only more matcher's wit. Findlings makes runaways,29
runaways a stray. She's as merry as the gricks still. 'Twould be30
sore should ledden sorrow. I'll wait. And I'll wait. And then if31
all goes. What will be is. Is is. But let them. Slops hospodch and32
the slusky slut too. He's for thee what she's for me. Dogging you33
round cove and haven and teaching me the perts of speech. If you34
spun your yarns to him on the swishbarque waves I was spelling35
my yearns to her over cottage cake. We'll not disturb their sleep-36

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ing duties. Let besoms be bosuns. It's Phoenix, dear. And the1
flame is, hear! Let's our joornee saintomichael make it. Since the2
lausafire has lost and the book of the depth is. Closed. Come!3
Step out of your shell! Hold up you free fing! Yes. We've light4
enough. I won't take our laddy's lampern. For them four old5
windbags of Gustsofairy to be blowing at. Nor you your ruck-6
sunck. To bring all the dannymans out after you on the hike. Send7
Arctur guiddus! Isma! Sft! It is the softest morning that ever I8
can ever remember me. But she won't rain showerly, our Ilma. Yet.9
Until it's the time. And me and you have made our. The sons of10
bursters won in the games. Still I'll take me owld Finvara for my11
shawlders. The trout will be so fine at brookfisht. With a taste12
of roly polony from Blugpuddels after. To bring out the tang of13
the tay. Is't you fain for a roost brood? Oaxmealturn, all out of14
the woolpalls! And then all the chippy young cuppinjars clutter-15
ing round us, clottering for their creams. Crying, me, grownup16
sister! Are me not truly? Lst! Only but, theres a but, you must17
buy me a fine new girdle too, nolly. When next you go to Market18
Norwall. They're all saying I need it since the one from Isaacsen's19
slooped its line. Mrknrk? Fy arthou! Come! Give me your great20
bearspaw, padder avilky, fol a miny tiny. Dola. Mineninecy-21
handsy, in the languo of flows. That's Jorgen Jargonsen. But you22
understood, nodst? I always know by your brights and shades.23
Reach down. A lil mo. So. Draw back your glave. Hot and hairy,24
hugon, is your hand! Here's where the falskin begins. Smoos as25
an infams. One time you told you'd been burnt in ice. And one26
time it was chemicalled after you taking a lifeness. Maybe that's27
why you hold your hodd as if. And people thinks you missed the28
scaffold. Of fell design. I'll close me eyes. So not to see. Or see only29
a youth in his florizel, a boy in innocence, peeling a twig, a child be-30
side a weenywhite steed. The child we all love to place our hope in31
for ever. All men has done something. Be the time they've come to32
the weight of old fletch. We'll lave it. So. We will take our walk33
before in the timpul they ring the earthly bells. In the church34
by the hearseyard. Pax Goodmens will. Or the birds start their35
treestirm shindy. Look, there are yours off, high on high! And36

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cooshes, sweet good luck they're cawing you, Coole! You see,1
they're as white as the riven snae. For us. Next peaters poll you2
will be elicted or I'm not your elicitous bribe. The Kinsella3
woman's man will never reduce me. A MacGarath O'Cullagh4
O'Muirk MacFewney sookadoodling and sweepacheeping round5
the lodge of Fjorn na Galla of the Trumpets! It's like potting the6
po to shambe on the dresser or tamming Uncle Tim's Caubeen7
on to the brows of a Viker Eagle. Not such big strides, huddy8
foddy! You'll crush me antilopes I saved so long for. They're9
Penisole's. And the two goodiest shoeshoes. It is hardly a Knut's10
mile or seven, possumbotts. It is very good for the health of a11
morning. With Buahbuah. A gentle motion all around. As12
leisure paces. And the helpyourselftoastrool cure's easy. It seems13
so long since, ages since. As if you had been long far away.14
Afartodays, afeartonights, and me as with you in thadark. You15
will tell me some time if I can believe its all. You know where16
I am bringing you? You remember? When I ran berrying after17
hucks and haws. With you drawing out great aims to hazel me18
from the hummock with your sling. Our cries. I could lead you19
there and I still by you in bed. Les go dutc to Danegreven,20
nos? Not a soul but ourselves. Time? We have loads on our21
hangs. Till Gilligan and Halligan call again to hooligan. And22
the rest of the guns. Sullygan eight, from left to right. Olobobo,23
ye foxy theagues! The moskors thought to ball you out. Or24
the Wald Unicorns Master, Bugley Captain, from the Naul, drawls25
up by the door with the Honourable Whilp and the Reverend26
Poynter and the two Lady Pagets of Tallyhaugh, Ballyhuntus,27
in their riddletight raiding hats for to lift a hereshealth to their28
robost, the Stag, evers the Carlton hart. And you needn't host29
out with your duck and your duty, capapole, while they reach30
him the glass he never starts to finish. Clap this wis on your poll31
and stick this in your ear, wiggly! Beauties don't answer and the32
rich never pays. If you were the enlarged they'd hue in cry you,33
Heathtown, Harbourstown, Snowtown, Four Knocks, Fleming-34
town, Bodingtown to the Ford of Fyne on Delvin. How they35
housed to house you after the Platonic garlens! And all because,36