In Chapter I.2 of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," the origin of the name Earwicker is explored, revealing layers of meaning and symbolism that reflect the complexities of human identity. The name itself is thought to derive from the phrase "ear-wicker," suggesting a figure who listens and weaves narratives from the sounds around him. This aligns with the themes presented in Chapter 2, where the character HCE (Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker) is portrayed as a multifaceted individual whose life story is interwoven with the myths and histories of Dublin. The exploration of Earwicker's name serves as a gateway to understanding the intricate relationships between personal identity, memory, and the collective consciousness of a community. For further insights, you can explore resources such as [The Modernist Journals Project](https://www.modjourn.org/) and [The James Joyce Centre](https://www.jamesjoyce.ie/). Additionally, AI-generated images of HCE can be found on platforms like [Artbreeder](https://www.artbreeder.com/) or [DeepAI](https://deepai.org/).
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030.01 Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Trees and Lili O'Ran-
030.02 gans), concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimp-
030.03 den's occupational agnomen (we are back in the presurnames
030.04 prodromarith period, of course just when enos chalked halltraps)
030.05 and discarding once for all those theories from older sources which
030.06 would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the
030.07 Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers and the Earwickers of Sidles-
030.08 ham in the Hundred of Manhood or proclaim him offsprout of
030.09 vikings who had founded wapentake and seddled hem in Herrick
030.10 or Eric, the best authenticated version, the Dumlat, read the
030.11 Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar, has it that it was this way. We are
030.12 told how in the beginning it came to pass that like cabbaging
030.13 Cincinnatus the grand old gardener was saving daylight under his
030.14 redwoodtree one sultry sabbath afternoon, Hag Chivychas Eve,
030.15 in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the
030.16 rere garden of mobhouse, ye olde marine hotel, when royalty was
030.17 announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on
030.18 the highroad along which a leisureloving dogfox had cast fol-
030.19 lowed, also at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels. For-
030.20 getful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch Humphrey
030.21 or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface
030.22 as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat) hast-
030.23 ing to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, solascarf and
030.24 plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots ruddled cinnabar with
031.01 flagrant marl, jingling his turnpike keys and bearing aloft amid
031.02 the fixed pikes of the hunting party a high perch atop of which a
031.03 flowerpot was fixed earthside hoist with care. On his majesty, who
031.04 was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted from green
031.05 youth and had been meaning to inquire what, in effect, had caused
031.06 yon causeway to be thus potholed, asking substitutionally to be
031.07 put wise as to whether paternoster and silver doctors were not
031.08 now more fancied bait for lobstertrapping honest blunt Harom-
031.09 phreyld answered in no uncertain tones very similarly with a fear-
031.10 less forehead: Naw, yer maggers, aw war jist a cotchin on thon
031.11 bluggy earwuggers. Our sailor king, who was draining a gugglet
031.12 of obvious adamale, gift both and gorban, upon this, ceasing to
031.13 swallow, smiled most heartily beneath his walrus moustaches and
031.14 indulging that none too genial humour which William the Conk
031.15 on the spindle side had inherited with the hereditary whitelock
031.16 and some shortfingeredness from his greataunt Sophy, turned to-
031.17 wards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord
031.18 of Leix and Offaly and the jubilee mayor of Drogheda, Elcock,
031.19 (the two scatterguns being Michael M. Manning, protosyndic of
031.20 Waterford and an Italian excellency named Giubilei according to
031.21 a later version cited by the learned scholarch Canavan of Canmake-
031.22 noise), in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising
031.23 puritas of doctrina, business per usuals and the purchypatch of
031.24 hamlock where the paddish preties grow and remarked dilsydul-
031.25 sily: Holybones of Saint Hubert how our red brother of Pour-
031.26 ingrainia would audibly fume did he know that we have for sur-
031.27 trusty bailiwick a turnpiker who is by turns a pikebailer no sel-
031.28 domer than an earwigger! For he kinned Jom Pill with his court
031.29 so gray and his haunts in his house in the mourning. (One still
031.30 hears that pebble crusted laughta, japijap cheerycherrily, among
031.31 the roadside tree the lady Holmpatrick planted and still one feels
031.32 the amossive silence of the cladstone allegibelling: Ive mies outs
031.33 ide Bourn.) Comes the question are these the facts of his nom-
031.34 inigentilisation as recorded and accolated in both or either of the
031.35 collateral andrewpaulmurphyc narratives. Are those their fata
031.36 which we read in sibylline between the fas and its nefas? No dung
032.01 on the road? And shall Nohomiah be our place like? Yea, Mulachy
032.02 our kingable khan? We shall perhaps not so soon see. Pinck
032.03 poncks that bail for seeks alicence where cumsceptres with scen-
032.04 taurs stay. Bear in mind, son of Hokmah, if so be you have me-
032.05 theg in your midness, this man is mountain and unto changeth
032.06 doth one ascend. Heave we aside the fallacy, as punical as finikin,
032.07 that it was not the king kingself but his inseparable sisters, un-
032.08 controllable nighttalkers, Skertsiraizde with Donyahzade, who
032.09 afterwards, when the robberers shot up the socialights, came down
032.10 into the world as amusers and were staged by Madame Sudlow
032.11 as Rosa and Lily Miskinguette in the pantalime that two pitts
032.12 paythronosed, Miliodorus and Galathee. The great fact emerges
032.13 that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed ini-
032.14 tialled by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and while he was
032.15 only and long and always good Dook Umphrey for the hunger-
032.16 lean spalpeens of Lucalizod and Chimbers to his cronies it was
032.17 equally certainly a pleasant turn of the populace which gave him
032.18 as sense of those normative letters the nickname Here Comes
032.19 Everybody. An imposing everybody he always indeed looked,
032.20 constantly the same as and equal to himself and magnificently well
032.21 worthy of any and all such universalisation, every time he con-
032.22 tinually surveyed, amid vociferatings from in front of Accept these
032.23 few nutties! and Take off that white hat!, relieved with Stop his Grog
032.24 and Put It in the Log and Loots in his (bassvoco) Boots, from good
032.25 start to happy finish the truly catholic assemblage gathered together
032.26 in that king's treat house of satin alustrelike above floats and foot-
032.27 lights from their assbawlveldts and oxgangs unanimously to clap-
032.28 plaud (the inspiration of his lifetime and the hits of their careers)
032.29 Mr Wallenstein Washington Semperkelly's immergreen tourers
032.30 in a command performance by special request with the courteous
032.31 permission for pious purposes the homedromed and enliventh
032.32 performance of the problem passion play of the millentury, running
032.33 strong since creation, A Royal Divorce, then near the approach
032.34 towards the summit of its climax, with ambitious interval band
032.35 selections from The Bo' Girl and The Lily on all horserie show
032.36 command nights from his viceregal booth (his bossaloner is ceil-
033.01 inged there a cuckoospit less eminent than the redritualhoods of
033.02 Maccabe and Cullen) where, a veritable Napoleon the Nth, our
033.03 worldstage's practical jokepiece and retired cecelticocommediant
033.04 in his own wise, this folksforefather all of the time sat, having the
033.05 entirety of his house about him, with the invariable broadstretched
033.06 kerchief cooling his whole neck, nape and shoulderblades and in
033.07 a wardrobe panelled tuxedo completely thrown back from a shirt
033.08 well entitled a swallowall, on every point far outstarching the
033.09 laundered clawhammers and marbletopped highboys of the pit
033.10 stalls and early amphitheatre. The piece was this: look at the lamps.
033.11 The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies circle: cloaks may
033.12 be left. Pit, prommer and parterre, standing room only. Habituels
033.13 conspicuously emergent.
033.14 A baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal
033.15 sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint. It has been blur-
033.16 tingly bruited by certain wisecrackers (the stinks of Mohorat are
033.17 in the nightplots of the morning), that he suffered from a vile
033.18 disease. Athma, unmanner them! To such a suggestion the one
033.19 selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements
033.20 which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to
033.21 add, ought not to be allowed to be made. Nor have his detractors,
033.22 who, an imperfectly warmblooded race, apparently conceive him
033.23 as a great white caterpillar capable of any and every enormity in
033.24 the calendar recorded to the discredit of the Juke and Kellikek
033.25 families, mended their case by insinuating that, alternately, he lay
033.26 at one time under the ludicrous imputation of annoying Welsh
033.27 fusiliers in the people's park. Hay, hay, hay! Hoq, hoq, hoq!
033.28 Faun and Flora on the lea love that little old joq. To anyone who
033.29 knew and loved the christlikeness of the big cleanminded giant
033.30 H. C. Earwicker throughout his excellency long vicefreegal exis-
033.31 tence the mere suggestion of him as a lustsleuth nosing for trou-
033.32 ble in a boobytrap rings particularly preposterous. Truth, beard
033.33 on prophet, compels one to add that there is said to have been
033.34 quondam (pfuit! pfuit!) some case of the kind implicating, it is
033.35 interdum believed, a quidam (if he did not exist it would be ne-
033.36 cessary quoniam to invent him) abhout that time stambuling ha-
034.01 round Dumbaling in leaky sneakers with his tarrk record who
034.02 has remained topantically anonymos but (let us hue him Abdul-
034.03 lah Gamellaxarksky) was, it is stated, posted at Mallon's at the
034.04 instance of watch warriors of the vigilance committee and years
034.05 afterwards, cries one even greater, Ibid, a commender of the
034.06 frightful, seemingly, unto such as were sulhan sated, tropped head
034.07 (pfiat! pfiat!) waiting his first of the month froods turn for
034.08 thatt chopp pah kabbakks alicubi on the old house for the charge-
034.09 hard, Roche Haddocks off Hawkins Street. Lowe, you blondy
034.10 liar, Gob scene you in the narked place and she what's edith ar
034.11 home defileth these boyles! There's a cabful of bash indeed in
034.12 the homeur of that meal. Slander, let it lie its flattest, has never
034.13 been able to convict our good and great and no ordinary Southron
034.14 Earwicker, that homogenius man, as a pious author called him, of
034.15 any graver impropriety than that, advanced by some woodwards
034.16 or regarders, who did not dare deny, the shomers, that they had,
034.17 chin Ted, chin Tam, chinchin Taffyd, that day consumed their
034.18 soul of the corn, of having behaved with ongentilmensky im-
034.19 modus opposite a pair of dainty maidservants in the swoolth of
034.20 the rushy hollow whither, or so the two gown and pinners plead-
034.21 ed, dame nature in all innocency had spontaneously and about the
034.22 same hour of the eventide sent them both but whose published
034.23 combinations of silkinlaine testimonies are, where not dubiously
034.24 pure, visibly divergent, as wapt from wept, on minor points touch-
034.25 ing the intimate nature of this, a first offence in vert or venison
034.26 which was admittedly an incautious but, at its wildest, a partial ex-
034.27 posure with such attenuating circumstances (garthen gaddeth green
034.28 hwere sokeman brideth girling) as an abnormal Saint Swithin's
034.29 summer and, (Jesses Rosasharon!) a ripe occasion to provoke it.
034.30 We can't do without them. Wives, rush to the restyours! Of-
034.31 man will toman while led is the lol. Zessid's our kadem, villa-
034.32 pleach, vollapluck. Fikup, for flesh nelly, el mundo nov, zole flen!
034.33 If she's a lilyth, pull early! Pauline, allow! And malers abushed,
034.34 keep black, keep black! Guiltless of much laid to him he was
034.35 clearly for once at least he clearly expressed himself as being with
034.36 still a trace of his erstwhile burr and hence it has been received of
035.01 us that it is true. They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as
035.02 calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how
035.03 one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it
035.04 fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in
035.05 appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages
035.06 after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all crea-
035.07 tion, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the
035.08 wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and
035.09 great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides
035.10 jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he
035.11 met a cad with a pipe. The latter, the luciferant not the oriuolate
035.12 (who, the odds are, is still berting dagabout in the same straw
035.13 bamer, carryin his overgoat under his schulder, sheepside out, so
035.14 as to look more like a coumfry gentleman and signing the pledge
035.15 as gaily as you please) hardily accosted him with: Guinness thaw
035.16 tool in jew me dinner ouzel fin? (a nice how-do-you-do in Pool-
035.17 black at the time as some of our olddaisers may still tremblingly
035.18 recall) to ask could he tell him how much a clock it was that the
035.19 clock struck had he any idea by cock's luck as his watch was
035.20 bradys. Hesitency was clearly to be evitated. Execration as cleverly
035.21 to be honnisoid. The Earwicker of that spurring instant, realising
035.22 on fundamental liberal principles the supreme importance, nexally
035.23 and noxally, of physical life (the nearest help relay being pingping
035.24 K. O. Sempatrick's Day and the fenian rising) and unwishful as
035.25 he felt of being hurled into eternity right then, plugged by a soft-
035.26 nosed bullet from the sap, halted, quick on the draw, and reply-
035.27 in that he was feelin tipstaff, cue, prodooced from his gunpocket
035.28 his Jurgensen's shrapnel waterbury, ours by communionism, his
035.29 by usucapture, but, on the same stroke, hearing above the skirl-
035.30 ing of harsh Mother East old Fox Goodman, the bellmaster, over
035.31 the wastes to south, at work upon the ten ton tonuant thunder-
035.32 ous tenor toller in the speckled church (Couhounin's call!) told
035.33 the inquiring kidder, by Jehova, it was twelve of em sidereal and
035.34 tankard time, adding, buttall, as he bended deeply with smoked
035.35 sardinish breath to give more pondus to the copperstick he pre-
035.36 sented (though this seems in some cumfusium with the chap-
036.01 stuck ginger, which, as being of sours, acids, salts, sweets and
036.02 bitters compompounded, we know him to have used as chaw-
036.03 chaw for bone, muscle, blood, flesh and vimvital,) that where-
036.04 as the hakusay accusation againstm had been made, what was
036.05 known in high quarters as was stood stated in Morganspost, by
036.06 a creature in youman form who was quite beneath parr and seve-
036.07 ral degrees lower than yore triplehydrad snake. In greater sup-
036.08 port of his word (it, quaint anticipation of a famous phrase, has
036.09 been reconstricted out of oral style into the verbal for all time
036.10 with ritual rhythmics, in quiritary quietude, and toosammen-
036.11 stucked from successive accounts by Noah Webster in the re-
036.12 daction known as the Sayings Attributive of H. C. Earwicker,
036.13 prize on schillings, postlots free), the flaxen Gygas tapped his
036.14 chronometrum drumdrum and, now standing full erect, above
036.15 the ambijacent floodplain, scene of its happening, with one Ber-
036.16 lin gauntlet chopstuck in the hough of his ellboge (by ancientest
036.17 signlore his gesture meaning: Ǝ!) pointed at an angle of thirty-
036.18 two degrees towards his duc de Fer's overgrown milestone as
036.19 fellow to his gage and after a rendypresent pause averred with
036.20 solemn emotion's fire: Shsh shake, co-comeraid! Me only, them
036.21 five ones, he is equal combat. I have won straight. Hence my
036.22 nonation wide hotel and creamery establishments which for the
036.23 honours of our mewmew mutual daughters, credit me, I am woo-
036.24 woo willing to take my stand, sir, upon the monument, that sign
036.25 of our ruru redemption, any hygienic day to this hour and to
036.26 make my hoath to my sinnfinners, even if I get life for it, upon
036.27 the Open Bible and before the Great Taskmaster's (I lift my hat!)
036.28 and in the presence of the Deity Itself andwell of Bishop and
036.29 Mrs Michan of High Church of England as of all such of said
036.30 my immediate withdwellers and of every living sohole in every
036.31 corner wheresoever of this globe in general which useth of my
036.32 British to my backbone tongue and commutative justice that
036.33 there is not one tittle of truth, allow me to tell you, in that purest
036.34 of fibfib fabrications.
036.35 Gaping Gill, swift to mate errthors, stern to checkself, (diag-
036.36 nosing through eustacetube that it was to make with a markedly
037.01 postpuberal hypertituitary type of Heidelberg mannleich cavern
037.02 ethics) lufted his slopingforward, bad Sweatagore good mur-
037.03 rough and dublnotch on to it as he was greedly obliged, and
037.04 like a sensible ham, with infinite tact in the delicate situation seen
037.05 the touchy nature of its perilous theme, thanked um for guilders
037.06 received and time of day (not a little token abock all the same that
037.07 that was owl the God's clock it was) and, upon humble duty to
037.08 greet his Tyskminister and he shall gildthegap Gaper and thee his
037.09 a mouldy voids, went about his business, whoever it was, saluting
037.10 corpses, as a metter of corse (one could hound him out had one
037.11 hart to for the monticules of scalp and dandruff droppings blaze
037.12 his trail) accompanied by his trusty snorler and his permanent
037.13 reflection, verbigracious; I have met with you, bird, too late,
037.14 or if not, too worm and early: and with tag for ildiot repeated
037.15 in his secondmouth language as many of the bigtimer's verbaten
037.16 words which he could balbly call to memory that same kveldeve,
037.17 ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between
037.18 Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea, when suppertide and souvenir to
037.19 Charlatan Mall jointly kem gently and along the quiet darkenings
037.20 of Grand and Royal, ff, flitmansfluh, and, kk, 't crept i' hedge
037.21 whenas to many a softongue's pawkytalk mude unswer u sufter
037.22 poghyogh, Arvanda always aquiassent, while, studying castelles
037.23 in the blowne and studding cowshots over the noran, he spat in
037.24 careful convertedness a musaic dispensation about his hearthstone,
037.25 if you please, (Irish saliva, mawshe dho hole, but would a respect-
037.26 able prominently connected fellow of Iro-European ascendances
037.27 with welldressed ideas who knew the correct thing such as Mr
037.28 Shallwesigh or Mr Shallwelaugh expectorate after such a callous
037.29 fashion, no thank yous! when he had his belcher spuckertuck in his
037.30 pucket, pthuck?) musefed with his thockits after having supped
037.31 of the dish sot and pottage which he snobbishly dabbed Peach
037.32 Bombay (it is rawly only Lukanpukan pilzenpie which she knows
037.33 which senaffed and pibered him), a supreme of excelling peas,
037.34 balled under minnshogue's milk into whitemalt winesour, a pro-
037.35 viant the littlebilker hoarsely relished, chaff it, in the snevel season,
037.36 being as fain o't as your rat wi'fennel; and on this celebrating
038.01 occasion of the happy escape, for a crowning of pot valiance,
038.02 this regional platter, benjamin of bouillis, with a spolish olive to
038.03 middlepoint its zaynith, was marrying itself (porkograso!) ere-
038.04 busqued very deluxiously with a bottle of Phenice-Bruerie '98,
038.05 followed for second nuptials by a Piessporter, Grand Cur, of
038.06 both of which cherished tablelights (though humble the bounquet
038.07 tis a leaman's farewell) he obdurately sniffed the cobwebcrusted
038.08 corks.
038.09 Our cad's bit of strife (knee Bareniece Maxwelton) with a quick
038.10 ear for spittoons (as the aftertale hath it) glaned up as usual with
038.11 dumbestic husbandry (no persicks and armelians for thee, Pom-
038.12 ranzia!) but, slipping the clav in her claw, broke of the matter
038.13 among a hundred and eleven others in her usual curtsey (how
038.14 faint these first vhespers womanly are, a secret pispigliando, amad
038.15 the lavurdy den of their manfolker!) the next night nudge one
038.16 as was Hegesippus over a hup a' chee, her eys dry and small and
038.17 speech thicklish because he appeared a funny colour like he
038.18 couldn't stood they old hens no longer, to her particular reverend,
038.19 the director, whom she had been meaning in her mind primarily
038.20 to speak with (hosch, intra! jist a timblespoon!) trusting, between
038.21 cuppled lips and annie lawrie promises (mighshe never have
038.22 Esnekerry pudden come Hunanov for her pecklapitschens!) that
038.23 the gossiple so delivered in his epistolear, buried teatoastally in
038.24 their Irish stew would go no further than his jesuit's cloth, yet
038.25 (in vinars venitas! volatiles valetotum!) it was this overspoiled
038.26 priest Mr Browne, disguised as a vincentian, who, when seized
038.27 of the facts, was overheard, in his secondary personality as a
038.28 Nolan and underreared, poul soul, by accident -- if, that is, the
038.29 incident it was an accident for here the ruah of Ecclectiastes
038.30 of Hippo outpuffs the writress of Havvah-ban-Annah -- to
038.31 pianissime a slightly varied version of Crookedribs confidentials,
038.32 (what Mere Aloyse said but for Jesuphine's sake!) hands between
038.33 hahands, in fealty sworn (my bravor best! my fraur!) and, to the
038.34 strains of The Secret of Her Birth, hushly pierce the rubiend
038.35 aurellum of one Philly Thurnston, a layteacher of rural science
038.36 and orthophonethics of a nearstout figure and about the middle
039.01 of his forties during a priestly flutter for safe and sane bets at the
039.02 hippic runfields of breezy Baldoyle on a date (W. W. goes
039.03 through the card) easily capable of rememberance by all pickers-
039.04 up of events national and Dublin details, the doubles of Perkin
039.05 and Paullock, peer and prole, when the classic Encourage Hackney
039.06 Plate was captured by two noses in a stablecloth finish, ek and nek,
039.07 some and none, evelo nevelo, from the cream colt Bold Boy
039.08 Cromwell after a clever getaway by Captain Chaplain Blount's
039.09 roe hinny Saint Dalough, Drummer Coxon, nondepict third, at
039.10 breakneck odds, thanks to you great little, bonny little, portey
039.11 little, Winny Widger! you're all their nappies! who in his never-
039.12 rip mud and purpular cap was surely leagues unlike any other
039.13 phantomweight that ever toppitt our timber maggies.
039.14 Twas two pisononse Timcoves (the wetter is pest, the renns are
039.15 overt and come and the voax of the turfur is hurled on our lande)
039.16 of the name of Treacle Tom as was just out of pop following the
39.17 theft of a leg of Kehoe, Donnelly and Packenham's Finnish pork
039.18 and his own blood and milk brother Frisky Shorty, (he was, to be
039.19 exquisitely punctilious about them, both shorty and frisky) a tip-
039.20 ster, come off the hulks, both of them awful poor, what was out
039.21 on the bumaround for an oofbird game for a jimmy o'goblin or
039.22 a small thick un as chanced, while the Seaforths was making the
039.23 colleenbawl, to ear the passon in the motor clobber make use of
039.24 his law language (Edzo, Edzo on), touchin the case of Mr Adams
039.25 what was in all the sundays about it which he was rubbing noses
039.26 with and having a gurgle off his own along of the butty bloke in
039.27 the specs.
039.28 This Treacle Tom to whom reference has been made had
039.29 been absent from his usual wild and woolly haunts in the land
039.30 of counties capalleens for some time previous to that (he was, in
039.31 fact, in the habit of frequenting common lodginghouses where
039.32 he slept in a nude state, hailfellow with meth, in strange men's
039.33 cots) but on racenight, blotto after divers tots of hell fire, red
039.34 biddy, bull dog, blue ruin and creeping jenny, I’m Eglandine's choic-
039.35 est herbage, supplied by the Duck and Doggies, the Galop-
039.36 ping Primrose, Brigid Brewster's, the Cock, the Postboy's Horn,
040.01 the Little Old Man's and All Swell That Aimswell, the Cup and
040.02 the Stirrup, he sought his wellwarmed leababobed in a hous-
040.03 ingroom Abide With Oneanother at Block W.W., (why didn't
040.04 he back it?) Pump Court, The Liberties, and, what with
040.05 moltapuke on voltapuke, resnored alcoh alcoho alcoherently to
040.06 the burden of I come, my horse delayed, nom num, the sub-
040.07 stance of the tale of the evangelical bussybozzy and the rusinur-
040.08 bean (the 'girls' he would keep calling them for the collarette
040.09 and skirt, the sunbonnet and carnation) in parts (it seemed he
040.10 was before the eyots of martas or otherwales the thirds of fossil-
040.11 years, he having beham with katya when lavinias had her mens
040.12 lease to sea in a psumpship doodly show whereat he was looking
040.13 for fight niggers with whilde roarses) oft in the chilly night (the
040.14 metagonistic! the epickthalamorous!) during uneasy slumber in
040.15 their hearings of a small and stonybroke cashdraper's executive,
040.16 Peter Cloran (discharged), O'Mara, an exprivate secretary of no
040.17 fixed abode (locally known as Mildew Lisa), who had passed
040.18 several nights, funnish enough, in a doorway under the blankets
040.19 of homelessness on the bunk of iceland, pillowed upon the stone
040.20 of destiny colder than man's knee or woman's breast, and
040.21 Hosty, (no slouch of a name), an illstarred beachbusker, who,
040.22 sans rootie and sans scrapie, suspicioning as how he was setting
040.23 on a twoodstool on the verge of selfabyss, most starved, with
040.24 melancholia over everything in general, (night birman, you served
040.25 him with natigal's nano!) had been towhead tossing on his shake-
040.26 down, devising ways and manners of means, of what he loved
040.27 to ifidalicence somehow or other in the nation getting a hold of
040.28 some chap's parabellum in the hope of taking a wing sociable
040.29 and lighting upon a sidewheel dive somewhere off the Dullkey
040.30 Downlairy and Bleakrooky tramaline where he could throw true
040.31 and go and blow the sibicidal napper off himself for two bits to
040.32 boldywell baltitude in the peace and quitybus of a one sure shot
040.33 bottle, he after having being trying all he knew with the lady's
040.34 help of Madam Gristle for upwards of eighteen calanders to get
040.35 out of Sir Patrick Dun's, through Sir Humphrey Jervis's and
040.36 into the Saint Kevin's bed in the Adelaide's hosspittles (from
041.01 these incurable welleslays among those uncarable wellasdays
041.02 through Sant Iago by his cocklehat, good Lazar, deliver us!)
041.03 without after having been able to jerrywangle it anysides. Lisa
041.04 O'Deavis and Roche Mongan (who had so much incommon,
041.05 epipsychidically; if the phrase be permitted hostis et odor insuper
041.06 petroperfractus) as an understood thing slept their sleep of the
041.07 swimborne in the one sweet undulant mother of tumblerbunks
041.08 with Hosty just how the shavers in the shaw the yokels in the
041.09 yoats or, well, the wasters in the wilde, and the bustling tweeny-
041.10 dawn-of-all-works (meed of anthems here we pant!) had not been
041.11 many jiffies furbishing potlids, doorbrasses, scholars' applecheeks
041.12 and linkboy's metals when, ashhopperminded like no fella he go
041.13 make bakenbeggfuss longa white man, the rejuvenated busker (for
041.14 after a goodnight's rave and rumble and a shinkhams topmorning
041.15 with his coexes he was not the same man) and his broadawake
041.16 bedroom suite (our boys, as our Byron called them) were up
041.17 and ashuffle from the hogshome they lovenaned The Barrel, cross
041.18 Ebblinn's chilled hamlet (thrie routes and restings on their then
041.19 superficies curiously correspondant with those linea and puncta
041.20 where our tubenny habenny metro maniplumbs below the ober-
041.21 flake underrails and stations at this time of riding) to the thrum-
041.22 mings of a crewth fiddle which, cremoaning and cronauning, levey
041.23 grevey, witty and wevey, appy, leppy and playable, caressed the
041.24 ears of the subjects of King Saint Finnerty the Festive who, in
041.25 brick homes of their own and in their flavory fraiseberry beds,
041.26 heeding hardly cry of honeyman, soed lavender or foyneboyne
041.27 salmon alive, with their priggish mouths all open for the larger
041.28 appraisiation of this longawaited Messiagh of roaratorios, were
041.29 only halfpast atsweeeep and after a brisk pause at a pawnbroking
041.30 establishment for the prothetic purpose of redeeming the song-
041.31 ster's truly admirable false teeth and a prolonged visit to a house
041.32 of call at Cujas Place, fizz, the Old Sots' Hole in the parish of
041.33 Saint Cecily within the liberty of Ceolmore not a thousand or one
041.34 national leagues, that was, by Griffith's valuation, from the site
041.35 of the statue of Primewer Glasstone setting a match to the march
041.36 of a maker (last of the stewards peut-être), where, the tale rambles
042.01 along, the trio of whackfolthediddlers was joined by a further —
042.02 intentions — apply — tomorrow casual and a decent sort of the
042.03 hadbeen variety who had just been touching the weekly insult,
042.04 phewit, and all figblabbers (who saith of noun?) had stimulants
042.05 in the shape of gee and gees stood by the damn decent sort after
042.06 which stag luncheon and a few ones more just to celebrate yester-
042.07 day, flushed with their firestuffostered friendship, the rascals came
042.08 out of the licensed premises, (Browne's first, the small p.s. ex-ex-
042.09 executive capahand in their sad rear like a lady's postscript: I want
042.10 money. Pleasend), wiping their laughleaking lipes on their sleeves,
042.11 how the bouckaleens shout their roscan generally (seinn fion,
042.12 seinn fion's araun.) and the rhymers' world was with reason the
042.13 richer for a wouldbe ballad, to the balledder of which the world
042.14 of cumannity singing owes a tribute for having placed on the
042.15 planet's melomap his lay of the vilest bogeyer but most attrac-
042.16 tionable avatar the world has ever had to explain for.
042.17 This, more krectly lubeen or fellow — me — lieder was first
042.18 poured forth where Riau Liviau riots and col de Houdo humps,
042.19 under the shadow of the monument of the shouldhavebeen legis-
042.20 lator (Eleutheriodendron! Spare, woodmann, spare!) to an over-
042.21 flow meeting of all the nations in Lenster fullyfilling the visional
042.22 area and, as a singleminded supercrowd, easily representative,
042.23 what with masks, whet with faces, of all sections and cross sections
042.24 (wineshop and cocoahouse poured out to brim up the broaching)
042.25 of our liffeyside people (to omit to mention of the mainland mino-
042.26 rity and such as had wayfared via Watling, Ernin, Icknild and
042.27 Stane, in chief a halted cockney car with its quotal of Hardmuth's
042.28 hacks, a northern tory, a southern whig, an eastanglian chroni-
042.29 cler and a landwester guardian) ranging from slips of young
042.30 dublinos from Cutpurse Row having nothing better to do than
042.31 walk about with their hands in their kneepants, sucking air-
042.32 whackers, weedulicet, jumbobricks, side by side with truant
042.33 officers, three woollen balls and poplin in search of a croust of
042.34 pawn to busy professional gentlemen, a brace of palesmen with
042.35 dundrearies, nooning toward Daly's, fresh from snipehitting and
042.36 mallardmissing on Rutland heath, exchanging cold sneers, mass-
043.01 going ladies from Hume Street in their chairs, the bearers baited,
043.02 some wandering hamalags out of the adjacent cloverfields of
043.03 Mosse's Gardens, an oblate father from Skinner's Alley, brick-
043.04 layers, a fleming, in tabinet fumant, with spouse and dog, an aged
043.05 hammersmith who had some chisellers by the hand, a bout of
043.06 cudgel players, not a few sheep with the braxy, two bluecoat
043.07 scholars, four broke gents out of Simpson's on the Rocks, a
043.08 portly and a pert still tassing Turkey Coffee and orange shrub in
043.09 tickeyes door, Peter Pim and Paul Fry and then Elliot and, O,
043.10 Atkinson, suffering hell's delights from the blains of their annui-
043.11 tants' acorns not forgetting a deuce of dianas ridy for the hunt, a
043.12 particularist prebendary pondering on the roman easter, the ton-
043.13 sure question and greek uniates, plunk em, a lace lappet head or
043.14 two or three or four from a window, and so on down to a few good
043.15 old souls, who,as they were juiced after taking their pledge over at
043.16 the uncle's place, were evidently under the spell of liquor, from the
043.17 wake of Tarry the Tailor a fair girl, a jolly postoboy thinking off
043.18 three flagons and one, a plumodrole, a half sir from the weaver's
043.19 almshouse who clings and clings and chatchatchat clings to her, a
043.20 wholedam's cloudhued pittycoat, as child, as curiolater, as Caoch
043.21 O'Leary. The wararrow went round, so it did, (a nation wants
043.22 a gaze) and the ballad, in the felibrine trancoped metre affectioned
043.23 by Taiocebo in his Casudas de Poulichinello Artahut, stump-
043.24 stampaded on to a slip of blancovide and headed by an excessively
043.25 rough and red woodcut, privately printed at the rimepress of
043.26 Delville, soon fluttered its secret on white highway and brown
043.27 byway to the rose of the winds and the blew of the gaels, from
043.28 archway to lattice and from black hand to pink ear, village crying
043.29 to village, through the five pussyfours green of the united states
043.30 of Scotia Picta — and he who denays it, may his hairs be rubbed
043.31 in dirt! To the added strains (so peacifold) of his majesty the
043.32 flute, that onecrooned king of inscrewments, Piggott's purest, ciello
043.33 alsoliuto, which Mr Delaney (Mr Delacey?), horn, anticipating
043.34 a perfect downpour of plaudits among the rapsods, piped
043.35 out of his decentsoort hat, looking still more like his purseyful
043.36 namesake as men of Gaul noted, but before of to sputabout, the
044.01 snowycrested curl amoist the leader's wild and moulting hair,
044.02 Ductor' Hitchcock hoisted his fezzy fuzz at bludgeon's height
044.03 signum to his companions of the chalice for the Loud Fellow,
044.04 boys' and silentium in curia! (our maypole once more where he rose
044.05 of old) and the canto was chantied there chorussed and christened
044.06 where by the old tollgate, Saint Annona's Street and Church.
044.07 And around the lawn the rann it rann and this is the rann that
044.08 Hosty made. Spoken. Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards,
044.09 viersified and piersified may the treeth we tale of live in stoney.
044.10 Here line the refrains of. Some vote him Vike, some mote him
044.11 Mike, some dub him Llyn and Phin while others hail him Lug
044.12 Bug Dan Lop, Lex, Lax, Gunne or Guinn. Some apt him Arth,
044.13 some bapt him Barth, Coll, Noll, Soll, Will, Weel, Wall but I
044.14 parse him Persse O'Reilly else he's called no name at all. To-
044.15 gether. Arrah, leave it to Hosty, frosty Hosty, leave it to Hosty
044.16 for he's the mann to rhyme the rann, the rann, the rann, the king
044.17 of all ranns. Have you here? (Some ha) Have we where? (Some
044.18 hant) Have you hered? (Others do) Have we whered? (Others dont)
044.19 It's cumming, it's brumming! The clip, the clop! (All cla) Glass
044.20 crash. The (klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrotty
044.21 graddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!).
044.22 Ardite, arditi!
044.23 Music Cue
045.01 Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
045.02 How he fell with a roll and a rumble
045.03 And curled up like Lord Olofa Crumple
045.04 By the butt of the Magazine Wall,
045.05 (Chorus) Of the Magazine Wall,
045.06 Hump, helmet and all?
045.07
045.08 He was one time our King of the Castle
045.09 Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnip.
045.10 And from Green street he'll be sent by order of His Worship
045.11 To the penal jail of Mountjoy
045.12 (Chorus) To the jail of Mountjoy!
045.13 Jail him and joy.
045.14
045.15 He was fafafather of all schemes for to bother us
045.16 Slow coaches and immaculate contraceptives for the populace,
045.17 Mare's milk for the sick, seven dry Sundays a week,
045.18 Openair love and religion's reform,
045.19 (Chorus) And religious reform,
045.20 Hideous in form.
045.21
045.22 Arrah, why, says you, couldn't he manage it?
045.23 I'll go bail, my fine dairyman darling,
045.24 Like the bumping bull of the Cassidys
045.25 All your butter is in your horns.
045.26 (Chorus) His butter is in his horns.
045.27 Butter his horns!
045.28
045.29 (Repeat) Hurrah there, Hosty, frosty Hosty, change that shirt
045.30 [on ye,
045.31 Rhyme the rann, the king of all ranns!
045.32
045.33 Balbaccio, balbuccio!;
045.34 We had chaw chaw chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chicken-
045.35 [pox and china chambers
045.36 Universally provided by this soffsoaping salesman.
046.01 Small wonder He'll Cheat E'erawan our local lads nicknamed him
046.02 When Chimpden first took the floor
046.03 (Chorus) With his bucketshop store
046.04 Down Bargainweg, Lower.
046.05
046.06 So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous
046.07 But soon we'll bonfire all his trash, tricks and trumpery
046.08 And'tis short till sheriff Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited
046.09 [company
046.10 With the bailiff's bom at the door,
046.11 (Chorus) Bimbam at the door.
046.12 Then he'll bum no more.
046.13 Sweet bad luck on the waves washed to our island
046.14 The hooker of that hammerfast viking
046.15 And Gall's curse on the day when Eblana bay
046.16 Saw his black and tan man-o'-war.
046.17 (Chorus) Saw his man-o'-war.
046.18 On the harbour bar.
046.19
046.20 Where from? roars Poolbeg. Cookingha'pence, he bawls Donnez-
046.21 [moi scampitle, wick an wipin'fampiny
046.22 Fingal Mac Oscar Onesine Bargearse Boniface
046.23 Thok's min gammelhole Norveegickers moniker
046.24 Og as ay are at gammelhore Norveegickers cod.
046.25 (Chorus) A Norwegian camel old cod.
046.26 He is, begod.
046.27
046.28 Lift it, Hosty, lift it, ye devil ye! up with the rann, the rhyming
046.29 [rann!
046.30 It was during some fresh water garden pumping
046.31 Or, according to the Nursing Mirror, while admiring the mon-
046.32 [keys
046.33 That our heavyweight heathen Humpharey
046.34 Made bold a maid to woo
046.35 (Chorus) Woohoo, what'll she doo!
046.36 The general lost her maidenloo!
047.01 He ought to blush for himself, the old hayheaded philosopher,
047.02 For to go and shove himself that way on top of her.
047.03 Begob, he's the crux of the catalogue
047.04 Of our antediluvial zoo,
047.05 (Chorus) Messrs. Billing and Coo.
047.06 Noah's larks, good as noo.
047.07
047.08 He was joulting by Wellinton's monument
047.09 Our rotorious hippopopotamuns
047.10 When some bugger let down the backtrap of the omnibus
047.11 And he caught his death of fusiliers,
047.12 (Chorus) With his rent in his rears.
047.13 Give him six years.
047.14
047.15 Tis sore pity for his innocent poor children
047.16 But look out for his missus legitimate!
047.17 When that frew gets a grip of old Earwicker
047.18 Won't there be earwigs on the green?
047.19 (Chorus) Big earwigs on the green,
047.20 The largest ever you seen.
047.21
047.22 Suffoclose! Shikespower! Seudodanto! Anonymoses!
047.23 Then we'll have a free trade Gaels' band and mass meeting
047.24 For to sod the brave son of Scandiknavery.
047.25 And we'll bury him down in Oxmanstown
047.26 Along with the devil and Danes,
047.27 (Chorus) With the deaf and dumb Danes,
047.28 And all their remains.
047.29
047.30 And not all the king's men nor his horses
047.31 Will resurrect his corpus
047.32 For there's no true spell in Connacht or hell
047.33 (bis) That's able to raise a Cain.
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