| Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Trees and Lili O'Ran- | 1 |
| gans), concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimp- | 2 |
| den's occupational agnomen (we are back in the presurnames | 3 |
| prodromarith period, of course just when enos chalked halltraps) | 4 |
| and discarding once for all those theories from older sources which | 5 |
| would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the | 6 |
| Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers and the Earwickers of Sidles- | 7 |
| ham in the Hundred of Manhood or proclaim him offsprout of | 8 |
| vikings who had founded wapentake and seddled hem in Herrick | 9 |
| or Eric, the best authenticated version, the Dumlat, read the | 10 |
| Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar, has it that it was this way. We are | 11 |
| told how in the beginning it came to pass that like cabbaging | 12 |
| Cincinnatus the grand old gardener was saving daylight under his | 13 |
| redwoodtree one sultry sabbath afternoon, Hag Chivychas Eve, | 14 |
| in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the | 15 |
| rere garden of mobhouse, ye olde marine hotel,when royalty was | 16 |
| announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on | 17 |
| the highroad along which a leisureloving dogfox had cast fol- | 18 |
| lowed, also at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels. For- | 19 |
| getful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch Humphrey | 20 |
| or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface | 21 |
| as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat) hast- | 22 |
| ing to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, solascarf and | 23 |
| plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots ruddled cinnabar with | 24 |