| quartebuck askull for the last acts) to the solans and the sycamores | 1 |
| and the wild geese and the gannets and the migratories and the | 2 |
| mistlethrushes and the auspices and all the birds of the rockby- | 3 |
| suckerassousyoceanal sea, all four of them, all sighing and sob- | 4 |
| bing, and listening. Moykle ahoykling! | 5 |
| They were the big four, the four maaster waves of Erin, all | 6 |
| listening, four. There was old Matt Gregory and then besides old | 7 |
| Matt there was old Marcus Lyons, the four waves, and oftentimes | 8 |
| they used to be saying grace together, right enough, bausnabeatha, | 9 |
| in Miracle Squeer: here now we are the four of us: old Matt Gre- | 10 |
| gory and old Marcus and old Luke Tarpey: the four of us and | 11 |
| sure, thank God, there are no more of us: and, sure now, you | 12 |
| wouldn't go and forget and leave out the other fellow and old | 13 |
| Johnny MacDougall: the four of us and no more of us and so | 14 |
| now pass the fish for Christ sake, Amen: the way they used to be | 15 |
| saying their grace before fish, repeating itself, after the interims | 16 |
| of Augusburgh for auld lang syne. And so there they were, with | 17 |
| their palms in their hands, like the pulchrum's proculs, spraining | 18 |
| their ears, luistening and listening to the oceans of kissening, with | 19 |
| their eyes glistening, all the four, when he was kiddling and | 20 |
| cuddling and bunnyhugging scrumptious his colleen bawn and | 21 |
| dinkum belle, an oscar sister, on the fifteen inch loveseat, behind | 22 |
| the chieftaness stewardesses cubin, the hero, of Gaelic champion, | 23 |
| the onliest one of her choice, her bleaueyedeal of a girl's friend, | 24 |
| neither bigugly nor smallnice, meaning pretty much everything | 25 |
| to her then, with his sinister dexterity, light and rufthandling, | 26 |
| vicemversem her ragbags et assaucyetiams, fore and aft, on and | 27 |
| offsides, the brueburnt sexfutter, handson and huntsem, that was | 28 |
| palpably wrong and bulbubly improper, and cuddling her and | 29 |
| kissing her, tootyfay charmaunt, in her ensemble of maidenna | 30 |
| blue, with an overdress of net, tickled with goldies, Isolamisola, | 31 |
| and whisping and lisping her about Trisolanisans, how one was | 32 |
| whips for one was two and two was lips for one was three, and | 33 |
| dissimulating themself, with his poghue like Arrah-na-poghue, | 34 |
| the dear dear annual, they all four remembored who made the | 35 |
| world and how they used to be at that time in the vulgar ear | 36 |