| Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is joky for Jacob. A few | 1 |
| toughnecks are still getatable who pretend that aboriginally he | 2 |
| was of respectable stemming (he was an outlex between the lines | 3 |
| of Ragonar Blaubarb and Horrild Hairwire and an inlaw to Capt. | 4 |
| the Hon. and Rev. Mr Bbyrdwood de Trop Blogg was among | 5 |
| his most distant connections) but every honest to goodness man | 6 |
| in the land of the space of today knows that his back life will | 7 |
| not stand being written about in black and white. Putting truth | 8 |
| and untruth together a shot may be made at what this hybrid | 9 |
| actually was like to look at. | 10 |
| Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an | 11 |
| eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a | 12 |
| sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, | 13 |
| a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the | 14 |
| wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial | 15 |
| tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of | 16 |
| thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of | 17 |
| two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot | 18 |
| of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his cold toes, a | 19 |
| bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on | 20 |
| his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing | 21 |
| himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their | 22 |
| garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat III Shuvlin, Old | 23 |
| Hoeland, (would we go back there now for sounds, pillings and | 24 |