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
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