of his forties during a priestly flutter for safe and sane bets at the | 1 |
hippic runfields of breezy Baldoyle on a date (W. W. goes | 2 |
through the card) easily capable of rememberance by all pickers- | 3 |
up of events national and Dublin details, the doubles of Perkin | 4 |
and Paullock, peer and prole, when the classic Encourage Hackney | 5 |
Plate was captured by two noses in a stablecloth finish,ek and nek, | 6 |
some and none, evelo nevelo, from the cream colt Bold Boy | 7 |
Cromwell after a clever getaway by Captain Chaplain Blount's | 8 |
roe hinny Saint Dalough, Drummer Coxon, nondepict third, at | 9 |
breakneck odds, thanks to you great little, bonny little, portey | 10 |
little, Winny Widger! you're all their nappies! who in his never- | 11 |
rip mud and purpular cap was surely leagues unlike any other | 12 |
phantomweight that ever toppitt our timber maggies. | 13 |
    'Twas two pisononse Timcoves (the wetter is pest, the renns are | 14 |
overt and come and the voax of the turfur is hurled on our lande) | 15 |
of the name of Treacle Tom as was just out of pop following the | 16 |
theft of a leg of Kehoe, Donnelly and Packenham's Finnish pork | 17 |
and his own blood and milk brother Frisky Shorty, (he was, to be | 18 |
exquisitely punctilious about them, both shorty and frisky) a tip- | 19 |
ster, come off the hulks, both of them awful poor, what was out | 20 |
on the bumaround for an oofbird game for a jimmy o'goblin or | 21 |
a small thick un as chanced, while the Seaforths was making the | 22 |
colleenbawl, to ear the passon in the motor clobber make use of | 23 |
his law language (Edzo, Edzo on), touchin the case of Mr Adams | 24 |
what was in all the sundays about it which he was rubbing noses | 25 |
with and having a gurgle off his own along of the butty bloke in | 26 |
the specs. | 27 |
    This Treacle Tom to whom reference has been made had | 28 |
been absent from his usual wild and woolly haunts in the land | 29 |
of counties capalleens for some time previous to that (he was, in | 30 |
fact, in the habit of frequenting common lodginghouses where | 31 |
he slept in a nude state, hailfellow with meth, in strange men's | 32 |
cots) but on racenight, blotto after divers tots of hell fire, red | 33 |
biddy, bull dog, blue ruin and creeping jenny, Eglandine's choic- | 34 |
est herbage, supplied by the Duck and Doggies, the Galop- | 35 |
ping Primrose, Brigid Brewster's, the Cock, the Postboy's Horn, | 36 |