Van Hoother was to git the wind up

• van (here changed back from von)

• to git: to get

• wind → wind for Grace O’Malley’s ship? → Ulysses, "Aeolus"

• git the wind up → get the band up cf. FW 009.09

• wind-up: (1) the close, finish; (2) a joke, prank
  • JvH is be the joke of the town / to understand the joke