| snow off walls. Have you ever heard of this old boy "Thom" or | 1 |
| "Thim" of the fishy stare who belongs to Kimmage, a crofting dis- | 2 |
| trict, and is not all there, and is all the more himself since he is | 3 |
| not so, being most of his time down at the Green Man where he | 4 |
| steals,pawns,belches and is a curse, drinking gaily two hours after | 5 |
| closing time, with the coat on him skinside out against rappari- | 6 |
| tions, with his socks outsewed his springsides, clapping his hands | 7 |
| in a feeble sort of way and systematically mixing with the public | 8 |
| going for groceries, slapping greats and littlegets soundly with | 9 |
| his cattegut belts, flapping baresides and waltzywembling about | 10 |
| in his accountrements always in font of the tubbernuckles, like | 11 |
| a longarmed lugh, when he would be finished with his tea? | 12 |
Is it that fellow? As mad as the brambles he is. Touch him. | 13 |
| With the lawyers sticking to his trewsershins and the swatme- | 14 |
| notting on the basque of his beret. He has kissed me more than | 15 |
| once, I am sorry to say and if I did commit gladrolleries may the | 16 |
| loone forgive it! O wait till I tell you! | 17 |
We are not going yet. | 18 |
And look here! Here's, my dear, what he done, as snooks | 19 |
| as I am saying so! | 20 |
Get out, you dirt! A strangely striking part of speech for | 21 |
| the hottest worked word of ur sprogue. You're not! Unhindered | 22 |
| and odd times? Mere thumbshow? Lately? | 23 |
How do I know? Such my billet. Buy a barrack pass. Ask | 24 |
| the horneys. Tell the robbers. | 25 |
You are alluding to the picking pockets in Lower O'Connell | 26 |
| Street? | 27 |
I am illuding to the Pekin packet but I am eluding from | 28 |
| Laura Connor's treat. | 29 |
Now, just wash and brush up your memoirias a little bit. | 30 |
| So I find, referring to the pater of the present man, an erely de- | 31 |
| mented brick thrower, I am wondering to myself in my mind, | 32 |
| qua our arc of the covenant, was Toucher, a methodist, whose | 33 |
| name, as others say, is not really 'Thom', was this salt son of a | 34 |
| century from Boaterstown, Shivering William, the sealiest old for- | 35 |
| ker ever hawked crannock, who is always with him at the Big Elm | 36 |