| inged there a cuckoospit less eminent than the redritualhoods of | 1 |
| Maccabe and Cullen) where, a veritable Napoleon the Nth, our | 2 |
| worldstage's practical jokepiece and retired cecelticocommediant | 3 |
| in his own wise,this folksforefather all of the time sat,having the | 4 |
| entirety of his house about him, with the invariable broadstretched | 5 |
| kerchief cooling his whole neck, nape and shoulderblades and in | 6 |
| a wardrobe panelled tuxedo completely thrown back from a shirt | 7 |
| well entitled a swallowall, on every point far outstarching the | 8 |
| laundered clawhammers and marbletopped highboys of the pit | 9 |
| stalls and early amphitheatre. The piece was this: look at the lamps. | 10 |
| The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies circle: cloaks may | 11 |
| be left. Pit, prommer and parterre, standing room only. Habituels | 12 |
| conspicuously emergent. | 13 |
| A baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal | 14 |
| sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint. It has been blur- | 15 |
| tingly bruited by certain wisecrackers (the stinks of Mohorat are | 16 |
| in the nightplots of the morning), that he suffered from a vile | 17 |
| disease. Athma, unmanner them! To such a suggestion the one | 18 |
| selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements | 19 |
| which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to | 20 |
| add, ought not to be allowed to be made. Nor have his detractors, | 21 |
| who, an imperfectly warmblooded race, apparently conceive him | 22 |
| as a great white caterpillar capable of any and every enormity in | 23 |
| the calendar recorded to the discredit of the Juke and Kellikek | 24 |
| families, mended their case by insinuating that, alternately, he lay | 25 |
| at one time under the ludicrous imputation of annoying Welsh | 26 |
| fusiliers in the people's park. Hay, hay, hay! Hoq, hoq, hoq! | 27 |
| Faun and Flora on the lea love that little old joq. To anyone who | 28 |
| knew and loved the christlikeness of the big cleanminded giant | 29 |
| H. C. Earwicker throughout his excellency long vicefreegal exis- | 30 |
| tence the mere suggestion of him as a lustsleuth nosing for trou- | 31 |
| ble in a boobytrap rings particularly preposterous. Truth, beard | 32 |
| on prophet, compels one to add that there is said to have been | 33 |
| quondam (pfuit! pfuit!) some case of the kind implicating, it is | 34 |
| interdum believed, a quidam (if he did not exist it would be ne- | 35 |
| cessary quoniam to invent him) abhout that time stambuling ha- | 36 |