091.01 king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stuccko-
091.02 muck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors,
091.03 declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic inter-
091.04 preter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre
091.05 hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the
091.06 story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess
091.07 of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's
091.08 commons that, what he would swear to the Tierney of Dundal-
091.09 gan or any other Tierney, yif live thurkells folloged him about
091.10 sure that was no steal and that, nevertheless, what was deposited
091.11 from that eyebold earbig noseknaving gutthroat, he did not fire
091.12 a stone either before or after he was born down and up to that
091.13 time. And, incidentalising that they might talk about Markarthy
091.14 or they might walk to Baalastartey or they might join the nabour
091.15 party and come on to Porterfeud this the sockdologer had the
091.13 neck to endorse with the head bowed on him over his outturned
091.17 noreaster by protesting to his lipreaders with a justbeencleaned
091.18 barefacedness, abeam of moonlight's hope, in the same trelawney
091.19 what he would impart, pleas bench. to the Llwyd Josus and the
091.20 gentlemen in Jury's and the four of Masterers who had been all
091.21 those yarns yearning for that good one about why he left
091.22 Dublin, that, amreeta beaker coddling doom as an Inishman was
091.23 as good as any cantonnatal, if he was to parish by the market steak
091.24 before the dorming of the mawn, he skuld never ask to see sight or
091.25 light of this world or the other world or any either world, of Tyre-
091.26 nan-Og, as true as he was there in that jackabox that minute, or
091.27 wield or wind (no thanks t'yous!) the inexousthausthible wassail-
091.28 horn tot of iskybaush the hailth up the wailth of the endknown ab-
091.29 god of the fire of the moving way of the hawks with his heroes in
091.30 Warhorror if ever in all his exchequered caree he up or lave a
091.31 chancery hand to take or throw the sign of a mortal stick or stone
091.32 at man, yoelamb or salvation army either before or after being
091.33 puptised down to that most holy and every blessed hour. Here,
091.34 upon the halfkneed castleknocker's attempting kithoguishly to
091.35 lilt his holymess the paws and make the sign of the Roman God-
091.36 helic faix, (Xaroshie, zdrst! in his excitement the laddo had
Summary page 91:
But a new complexion was put upon the matter when Pegger Festy himself, as soon as the outer layer of stucco-muck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loud burst of poesy, on his oath, that neither had he stolen, nor had he thrown a stone. Here (while in his excitement he broke in Castilian, shouting in Russian, “Horosho!” [Very well!”] and “Zdravstvyete!” [Be in good health!) much yelling and laughter broke out in the hall, in which the testy fighter himself joined.
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