XLVIII

1. And if the money be rented

2. Who shd pay rent on that money?
3. Some fellow who has it on rent day,
4. or some bloke who has not?
5. Died Mahomet VIth Yahid Eddin Han
6. ‘by profession ex-sultan’
7. 65 years of age in San Remo (1926)
8. begotten of Abdul Mejid. At beatification
9. 80 loud speakers were used. Subsequent to the
10. Turkish war Mr Kolschitzky
11. received for his services as a spy
12. five score sacks of coffee (de Banchiis cambi tenendi)
13. thus initiating the coffee-house facts of Vienna
14. sixteen hundred, I think, and whenever; Von Unruh
15. is rather good at imitating the sergeant
16. who jammed down the cadavers; there were cadavers
17. and the pit was not large enough to hold all the kadavers
18. so the sergeant jammed ‘em down with his boots
19. to get the place smooth for the Kaiser.
20. Herr Von Unruh is rather good at miming that sergeant
21. vide Verdun; and what he wrote down; at Verdun.
22. Said Mr Charles Francis Adams
23. there was no good conversation. At no single entertainment
24. in London did I find any good conversation
25. They take Browning for an American,
26. he is unenglish in his opinions and carriage.
27. Was put in the cellarage
28. Van Buren having written it down
29. ‘deface and obliterate’ wrote J. Adams
30. ‘become fathers of the next generation’ wrote Marx
31. .. tuberculosis ... Bismarck
32. blamed american civil war on the jews;
33. particularly on the Rothschild
34. one of whom remarked to Disraeli
35. that nations were fools to pay rent for their credit
36. Δίγονος
37. DIGONOS; lost in the forest; but are then known as leopards
38. after three years in the forest; they are known as ‘twice-born’.
39. I am sorry, Your Highness         Cawdor, Sept 23
40. To have been so long in returning the
41. pedigree of yr cairn puppy
42. but when I wrote to the man you bought him from
43. I received a reply from his wife (or daughter)
44. saying he had just gone on a holiday
45. and that he wd write me when he returned.
46. I find Dhu Achil (sire) has been registered
47. at the Kennel Club, but the dam is unregistered.
48. Dhu Achil has won a fair number of prizes at Scottish Shows
49. and there are some other good dogs in the pedigree
50. (three senators; four bottles of whiskey)
51. so the puppy seems quite well bred    (and at)
52. For the sake of convenience I will write particulars
53. (four o’clock in the morning Mr Rhumby)
54. on a separate sheet of paper
55. (waz Sekkertary) The little dog is doing
56. (Ov State) very well at Mr McLocherty’s and is quite happy.
57. They are very fond of him and he is a most affectionate dog
58. Yours respectfully
59. Galileo; pronounced ‘Garry Yeo’
60. err’ un’ imbecille; ed ha imbecillito
61. (voice under my window) il mondo
62. No trustee of the Salem Museum, who had not doubled
63. both Good Hope and The Horn.
64. Sea as if risen over the headland
65. and there are twin seas in the cloud
66. 12% interest in Bithynia;

67. for home Romans interest 6. No man theign
68. said Athelstan who has not made three voyages
69. going hence off this land into other lands as a merchant
70. ‘A little more stock’ said the president over the telephone
71. To the printer ‘we sold all that what you printed us’
72. So the bond salesman went abroad.
73. They say, that is the Norse engineer told me, that out past Hawaii
74. they spread threads from gun’ale to gun’ale
75. in a certain fashion
76. and plot a course of 3000 sea miles
77. lying under the web, watching the stars
78. ‘while she bought 2 prs of shoes
79. 2 veils; 2 parasols; an orchid (artificial)
80. for which I was presented with a new kind of net gloves
81. made like fishnet; so the day was not wholly wasted
82. The priest here
83. had una nuova messa
84. (dodicesimo anno E.F.)
85. bella festa, because there was a priest here to say his
86. first mass
87. and all the mountains were full of fires, and
88. we went around through the village
89. in giro per il paese
90. 2 men and 2 horses
91. and then the music and on the sides
92. children carrying torches and the
93. carrozze with the priests, and the one that had to say
94. the new mass, and the carrozze were full of fine flowers
95. and there were a lot of people. I liked it,
96. all the houses were full of lights and
97. tree branches in the windows
98. covered with hand-made flowers and
99. the next day they had mass and a procession
100. Please may I go back there
101. and have a new pair of Sunday shoes?’
102. Velvet, yellow, unwinged
103. clambers, a ball, into its orchis
104. and the stair there still broken

105. the flat stones of the road, Mt Segur.
106. From Val Cabrere, were two miles of roofs to San Bertrand
107. so that a cat need not set foot in the road
108. where now is an inn, and bare rafters,
109. where they scratch six feet deep to reach pavement
110. where now is wheat field, and a milestone
111. an altar to Terminus, with arms crossed
112. back of the stone
113. Where sun cuts light against evening;
114. where light shaves grass into emerald
115. Savairic; hither Gaubertz;
116. Said they wd. not be under Paris
     
     

117. Falling Mars in the air

118. bough to bough, to the stone bench
119. where was an ox in smith’s sling hoisted for shoeing

120. where was spire-top a-level the grass yard

121. Then the towers, high over chateau---
122. Fell with stroke after stroke, jet avenger
123. bent, rolled, severed and then swallowed limb after limb
124. Hauled off the butt of that carcass, 20 feet up a tree trunk,
125. Here three ants have killed a great worm. There
126. Mars in the air, fell, flew.
127. Employed, past tense; at the Lido, Venezia
128. an old man with a basket of stones,
129. that was, said the elderly lady, when the beach costumes
130. were longer,
131. and if the wind was, the old man placed a stone.