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 soully when 'tis thime took o'er home, gin. [[We cannot say aye to aye|We cannot say aye]]
 [[We cannot say aye to aye|to aye]]. [[We cannot smile noes from noes]]. Still. One cannot help
 noticing that rather more than half of the lines run north-south
 in the [[Nemzes]] and Bukarahast directions while the others go
 west-east in search from Maliziies with Bulgarad for, tiny tot
 though it looks when schtschupnistling alongside other incuna-
 bula,it has its cardinal points for all that. These ruled barriers
 along which the traced words, run, march, halt, walk, stumble
 at doubtful points, stumble up again in comparative safety seem
 to have been drawn first of all in a pretty checker with lamp-
 black and [[blackthorn]]. Such crossing is antechristian of course,
 but the use of the homeborn shillelagh as an aid to calligraphy
 shows a distinct advance from savagery to barbarism. It is
 seriously believed by some that the intention may have been
 [[geodetic]], or, in the view of the [[cannier]], domestic economical.
 But by [[writing thithaways end to end and turning]], turning and
 end to end hithaways writing and with lines of litters slittering
 up and louds of latters slettering down, the old semetomyplace
 and jupetbackagain from tham Let Rise till Hum Lit. Sleep,
 where in the waste is the wisdom?
     Another point, in addition to the original sand, pounce pow- 
 der, drunkard paper or soft rag used (any vet or inhanger in
 ous sot's social can see the seen for seemself, a wee ftofty od
 room, the cheery spluttered on the one karrig, a darka disheen
 of voos from Dalbania, any gotsquantity of racky, a portogal
 and some buk setting out on the sofer, you remember the
 sort of softball sucker motru used to tell us when we were all
 biribiyas or nippies and messas) it has acquired accretions of
 terricious matter whilst loitering in the past. The teatimestained
 terminal (say not the tag, mummer, or our show's a failure!) is a
 cosy little brown study all to oneself and, whether it be thumb-
 print, mademark or just a poor trait of the artless, its importance
 in establishing the identities in the writer complexus (for if the
 hand was one, the minds of active and agitated were more than
 so) will be best appreciated by never forgetting that both before
 and after the battle of the Boyne it was a habit not to sign letters