FW 1.13i --ALP's gatherings--

1.13a: What a warm time we were in there but how keling is here the airabouts! We nowhere she lives...
1.13b: And such reasonable weather too! The wagrant wind's awalt'zaround the piltdowns and on every...
1.13c: A verytableland of bleakbardfields! Under his seven wrothschields lies one, Lumproar. His glav toside him...
1.13d: The three of crows have flapped it southenly, kraaking of de baccle to the kvarters of that sky whence triboos...
1.13e: No nubo no! Neblas on you liv! Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindmerollingeyes...
1.13f: Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pringlpik...
1.13g: But it's the armitides toonigh, militopucos, and toomourn we wish for a muddy kissmans to the minutia workers...
1.13h: She's burrowed the coacher's headlight the better to pry (who goes cute goes siocur and shoos aroun)...
1.13i: maps, keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with bloodstaned breeks in em, boaston...
1.13k: ills and ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that come fro the hart (bucklied!)...


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FDV: "& maps & keys"


maps, keys and woodpiles of haypennies

in 1724, copper coinage for Ireland was produced by William Wood, a swindle; Swift wrote tirades against 'Wood's halfpence' in The Drapier's Letters

and moonled brooches with bloostaned breeks in em

moonlit

blue-stained (FW1 has "bloodstaned")
bloodstained
bloodstone: heliotrope (a green variety of jasper or quartz, with small spots of red jasper looking like drops of blood)

Dialect breeks: breeches, trousers


and boaston nightgarters and masses of shoesets

Boston, Massachusetts, nightletter (Ltr,Boston)

French chaussettes: socks


and nickelly nacks and fodder allmicheal

maybe: Les Pieds Nickelés: 1895 play by 'Tristan' later a French comic-strip (from French slang: avoir les pieds nickelés: to be lazy, literally 'to have nickel-plated feet')

Mick/Nick
knickknacks

Danish fødder: feet
Ltr,FaMichael
almighty

Pont Saint Michel, Paris (bridges of Paris)


and a lugly parson of cates


lovely parcel
ugly person

Ltr,Cakes

archaic cates: choice food


and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets,

Howitzer gun

how is yer, my dears?

Ltr,HowAreYou

Ltr,Maggy

midges and maggots


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