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.

[044.07-044.21]: introducing the ballad — applause.

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!).

[044.22-047.29]: the ballad of Persse O'Reilly in fourteen stanzas — interspersed with cheers for Hosty.