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.

[033.14-034.29]: baser and preposterous allegations against him — the sin in the park.

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-