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.

[039.14-039.27]: Treacle Tom and Frisky Shorty — they overhear the story at the racetracks.

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.

[039.28-042.16]: Tom mumbles the story in his sleep — he is overheard by a trio of tramps, who turn the tale into a ballad.

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,