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.

[042.17-044.06]: the first performance of the ballad — its wide dissemination.

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-