Little craythur

• liddle crathur → little craythur
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• craythur: (Anglo-Irish) Irish whiskey, esp. illegally homemade one

• Finnegan's Wake: (song) "Now Tim [Finnegan] had a sort o' the tipplin' way,/ With the love of the liquor he was born,/ An' to help him on with his work each day,/ He'd a drop of the craythur every morn." → While drunk, Tim falls from a ladder and dies; during his wake, he is splashed with whiskey and comes back to life

• creature → pronounced craythur in parts of Ireland