1.15a:
Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b:
like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c:
We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d:
though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e:
But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f:
Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...
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But all they are all there scraping along
"all they are all" ?
scraping = playing stringed instrument with bow
to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus,
squeeze out a livelihood
Romulus and Remus
Rabelais
rebus: word-puzzle (from Latin rebus: by things, from things)
hopping round his middle like kippers on a griddle, O,
song Phil the Fluter's Ball: 'Hopping in the middle like a herrin' on a griddle, O!'
as he lays dormont from the macroborg of Holdhard
lies dormant
French mont: German Berg: mountain
from Howth Head (head) to the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park (feet)
macro, micro
hold hard
Howth Head?
to the microbirg of Pied de Poudre.
French pied poudreux: vagabond (literally 'dusty foot')
Pie Poudre: a court formerly held at a fair for quick treatment of hawkers, etc.
song Phil the Fluter?
French poudre: powder, gunpowder
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