Or hers. Take the train there tomorrow. No. Returning not the same. Like
kids your second visit to a house. The new I want. Nothing new under the
sun. Care of P. O. Dolphin’s barn. Are you not happy in your? Naughty
darling. At Dolphin’s barn charades in Luke Doyle’s house. Mat Dillon and his
bevy of daughters : Tiny, Atty, Floey, Maimy, Louy, Hetty. Molly too.
Eightyseven that was. Year before we. And the old major partial to his drop
of spirits. Curious she an only child, I an only child. So it returns. Think
you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way
home. And just when he and she. Circus horse walking in a ring. Rip van
Winkle we played. Rip : tear in Henny Doyle’s overcoat. Van : breadvan
delivering. Winkle : cockles and periwinkles. Then I did Rip van Winkle
coming back. She leaned on the sideboard watching. Moorish eyes. Twenty
years asleep in Sleepy Hollow. All changed. Forgotten. The young are old.
His gun rusty from the drew.
Ba. What is that flying about? Swallow? Bat probably. Thinks I’m a tree, so blind. Have birds no smell? Metempsychosis. They believed you could be changed into a tree from grief. Weeping willow. Ba. There he goes. Funny little beggar. Wonder where he lives. Belfry up there. Very likely. Hanging by his heels in the odour of sanctity. Bell scared him out, I suppose. Mass seems to be over. Could hear them all at it. Pray for us. And pray for us. And pray for us. Good idea the repetition. Same thing with ads. Buy from us. And buy from us. Yes, there’s the light in the priest’s house. Their frugal meal. Remember about the mistake in the valuation when I was in Thom’s. Twentyeight it is. Two houses they have. Gabriel Conroy’s brother is curate. Ba. Again. Wonder why they come out at night like mice. They’re a mixed breed. Birds are like hopping mice. What frightens them, light or noise? Better sit still. All instinct like the bird in drouth got water out of the end of a jar by throwing in pebbles. Like a little man in a cloak he is with tiny hands. Weeny bones. Almost see them shimmering, kind of a bluey white. Colours depend on the light you see. Stare the sun for example like the eagle then look at a shoe see a blotch blob yellowish. Wants to stamp his trademark on everything. Instance, that cat this morning on the staircase. Colour of brown turf. Say you never see them with three colours. Not true. That half tabbywhite tortoiseshell in the City Arms with the letter em on her forehead. Body fifty different colours. Howth a while ago amethyst. Glass flashing. That’s how that wise man what’s his name with the burning glass. Then the heather goes on fire. It can’t be tourists’ matches. What? Perhaps the sticks dry rub together in the
