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book and ruling rod, vein of my vergin page, her chastener ever
I did learn my little ana countrymouse in alphabeater cameltem-
per, from alderbirk to tannenyou, with myraw rattan atter dun-
drum; ooah, oyir, oyir, oyir: and I did spread before my Livvy,
where Lord street lolls and ladies linger and Cammomile Pass
cuts Primrose Rise and Coney Bend bounds Mulbreys Island but
never a blid had bledded or bludded since long agore when the
whole blighty acre was bladey well pessovered, my selvage mats
of lecheworked lawn, my carpet gardens of Guerdon City, with
chopes pyramidous and mousselimes and beaconphires and colos-
sets and pensilled turisses for the busspleaches of the summira-
mies and esplanadas and statuesques and templeogues, the Par-
donell of Maynooth, Fra Teobaldo, Nielsen, rare admirable, Jean
de Porteleau, Conall Gretecloke, Guglielmus Caulis and the eiligh
ediculous Passivucant (glorietta's inexcellsiored!): for irkdays
and for folliedays till the comple anniums of calendarias, gregoro-
maios and gypsyjuliennes as such are pleased of theirs to walk:
and I planted for my own hot lisbing lass a quickset vineyard and
I fenced it about with huge Chesterfield elms and Kentish hops
and rigs of barlow and bowery nooks and greenwished villas
and pampos animos and (N.I.) necessitades iglesias and pons for
aguaducks: a hawthorndene, a feyrieglenn, the hallaw vall, the
dyrchace, Finmark's Howe, against lickybudmonth and gleaner-
month with a magicscene wall (rimrim! rimrim!) for a Queen's
garden of her phoenix: and (hush! hush!) I brewed for my alpine
plurabelle, wigwarming wench, (speakeasy!) my granvilled brand-
old Dublin lindub, the free, the froh, the frothy freshener, puss,
puss, pussyfoot, to split the spleen of her maw: and I laid down
before the trotters to my eblanite my stony battered waggon-
ways, my nordsoud circulums, my eastmoreland and westland-
more, running boullowards and syddenly parading, (hearsemen,
opslo! nuptiallers, get storting!): whereon, in mantram of true-
men like yahoomen (expect till dutc cundoctor summoneth him
all fahrts to pay, velkommen all hankinhunkn in this vongn of
Hoseyeh!), claudesdales withe arabinstreeds, Roamer Reich's
rickyshaws with Hispain's King's trompateers, madridden mus-