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3 A
goodrid croven in a tynwalled tub.

 

4 Apis amat aram. Luna legit librum. Pulla petit pascua.

 

5 And after dinn to shoot the shades.

 

6 Says blistered Mary Achinhead to beautifed Tummy Tullbutt.

 

7 Begge. To go the Begge. To go to Begge and to be sure to reminder

 

Begge. Goodbeg, buggey Begge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mars speaking.

seldomers that most frequent him. That same erst crafty hakemouth which under the assumed name of Ignotus Loquor, of foggy old, harangued bellyhooting fishdrunks on their favorite stamping ground, from a father theo- balder brake.1 And Egyptus, the incenstrobed, as Cyrus heard of him? And Major A. Shaw after he got the miner smellpex? And old Whiteman self, the blighty blotchy, beyond the bays, hope of ostrogothic and ottomanic faith converters, despair of Pandemia’s postwartem plastic surgeons? But is was all so long ago. Hispano-Cathayan-Euxine, Castillian - Emeratic - Hebridian, Espanol - Cymric-Helleniky? Rolf the Ganger, Rough the Gang- ster, not a feature alike and the face the same.2 Pastimes are past times. Now let bygones be bei Gunne’s. Saaleddies er it in this warken werden, mine boerne, and it vild need older- wise 3 since primal made alter in garden of Idem. The tasks above are as the flasks below, saith the emerald canticle of Hermes and all’s loth and pleasestir, are we told, on excellent inkbottle authority, solarsystemised, seriol- cosmically, in a more and more almightily expanding universe under one, there is rhyme- less reason to believe, original sun. Securely judges orb terrestrial. 4 Haud certo ergo. But O felicitous culpability, sweet bad cess to you for an archetypt!

 

 

Smith, no home.

 

Non quod sed

 

quiat

 

Hearasay in

 

paradox lust.

 

 

1 Huntler and Pumar’s animal alphabites, the first in the world from

 

 

aab to zoo.

 

2 We dont hear the booming cursowarries, we wont fear the fletches of

 

fightning, we float the meditarenias and come bask to the isle we love

 

in

 

spice. Punt.

 

3 And this once golden bee a cimadoro.

 

4 And he was a gay Lutharius anyway, Sinobiled. You can tell by their

 

extraordinary clothes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the

ARCHAIC

 

Bags.

linkless proud, the plurable with everybody

ZELOTYPIA

 

Balls.

and ech with pal, this ernst of Allsap’s ale

AND THE

 

Move up,

halliday of roaring month with its two lunar

ODIUM TEL-

 

Mackinerny!

eclipses and its three saturnine settings! Horn

EOLOGICUM.

 

Make room for

of Heatthen, highbrowed! Brook of Life, back-

THE LOCALI-

 

Muckinurney!

frish! Amnios amnium, fluminiculum flami-

SATION OF

 

 

nulinorum! We seek the Blessed One, the

LEGEND

 

 

Harbourer-cum-Enheritance. Even Canaan

LEADING TO

 

 

the Hateful. Ever a-going, ever a-coming.

THE LEGALI-

 

 

Between a stare and a sough. Fossilisation, all

SATION OF

 

 

branches. 1 Wherefore Petra sware unto Ulma:

LATIFUND-

 

 

By the mortals’ frost! And Ulma sware unto

ISM.

 

 

Petra: On my veiny life!

 

 

 

In these places sojournemus, where Eblinn

 

 

 

water, leased of carr and fen, leaving amont her

 

 

 

shoals and salmen browses, whom inshore

 

 

 

breezes woo with freshets, windeth to her

 

 

 

broads. A phantom city, phaked of philim

 

 

 

pholk, bowed and sould for a four of hundreds

 

 

 

of manhood in their three and threescore

 

 

 

fylkers for a price partitional of twenty six and

 

 

 

six. By this riverside, on our sunnybank, 2 how

 

 

 

buona the vista, by Santa Rosa!
A field of May,

 

 

 

the very vale of Spring. Orchards here are

 

 

 

lodged; sainted lawrels evremberried. You

 

 

 

have a hoig view ashwald, a glen of marrons

 

 

 

and of thorns. Gleannaulinn, Ardeevin: purty

 

 

 

glint of plaising height. This Norman court at

 

 

 

boundary of the ville, yon creepered tower of

 

 

 

a church of Ereland, meet for true saints in

 

 

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