Fatherthyme's beckside

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  • Father Time: time personified as an old bearded man, usually carrying a scythe and an hourglass
  • backside
  • thyme
  • beck: beckon

Commentary

The ambiguous crime was pehaps the exposure of HCE's backside in teh park, or the exposure of the private parts of the two girls. If the trial/cross-examination is of Shem or Shaun, as seems to be the case, this might account for reference to HCE's backside as "Father[thyme]'s."