Complete Works of James Joyce (205 page)

as my woolfell merger would be. In effect I

TITTERITOT,

could engage in an energument over you till

LEG IN A TEE,

you were republicly royally toobally prussic

LUG IN A

blue in the shirt after. 1 Trionfante di bestia! And

LAW, TWO

if you’re not your bloater’s kipper may I never

AT A TIE,

curse again on that pint I took of Jamesons.

THREE ON A

Old Keane now, you’re rod, hook and sinker,

THRICKY

old jubalee Keane! Biddy’s hair. Biddy’s hair,

TILL OHIO

mine lubber. Where is that Quin but he sknows

OHIO

it knot but what you that are my popular end-

IOIOMISS.

phthisis were born with a solver arm up your

sleep. Thou in shanty ! Thou in scanty shanty ! !

Thou in slanty scanty shanty! ! ! Bide in your

hush! Bide in your hush, do! The law does

not aloud you to shout. I plant my penstock

in your postern, chinarpot. Ave! And let it be

to all remembrance. Vale. Ovocation of maid-

ing waters. 2 For auld lang salvy steyne. I

defend you to champ my scullion’s praises.

To book alone belongs the lobe. Foremaster’s

meed 3 will mark tomorrow, when we are

making pilscrummage to whaboggeryin with

1 From three shellings. A bluedye sacrifice.

2 Not Kilty. But the manajar was. He! He! Ho! Ho! Ho!

3 Giglamps, Soapy Geyser, The Smell and Gory M Gusty.

Abnegation is

staff, scarf and blessed wallet and our aureoles

ENTER THE

Adaptation.

round our neckkandcropfs where as and when

COP AND

Cato.

Heavysciusgardaddy, parent who offers sweet-

HOW.

Nero.

meats, will gift uns his Noblett’s surprize.

SECURES

Saul. Aristotle.

With this laudable purpose in loud ability let

GUBERNANT

Julius Caesar.

us be singulfied. Betwixt me and thee hung

URBIS

Pericles.

cong. Item, mizpah ends.

TERROREM.

Ovid.

But while the dial are they doodling dawd-

Adam, Eve.

ling over the mugs and the grubs? Oikey,

Domitian. Edipus

Impostolopulos? 1 Steady steady steady steady

Socrates.

steady studiavimus. Many many many many

Ajax.

many manducabimus. 2 We’ve had our day at triv

Homer.

and quad and writ our bit as intermidgets. Art,

Marcus Aurelius.

literature, politics, economy,chemistry, human-

Alcibiades.

ity, &c. Duty, the daughter of discipline, the

Lucretius.

Great Fire at the South City Markets, Belief in

Giants and the Banshee, A Place for Every-

thing and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen

Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career

in the Civil Service, 3 The Voice of Nature in

the Forest, 4 Your Favorite Hero or Heroine,

On the Benefits of Recreation, 5 If Standing

Stones Could Speak, Devotion to the Feast of

the Indulgence of Portiuncula, The Dublin

Metropolitan Police Sports at Ballsbridge, De-