MS-TCD-4662

[0728] The Louis. [0729] The Louis had difficulty
in living, I mean in making ends
meet. [0730] There was the man, the woman and
two children, a boy and a girl. [0731] There
at least is something that admits of no
controversy. [0732] The father was known as Big
Louis, and in big indeed indeed he was
big.

[0733] He had been married married
several times already, before this last
marriage marrying his young cousin, with
her where we find him still and he is
still with her. [0734] He had other children
in other places, men and women
firmly embedded in life, expecting no
hoping for nothing more, either from
themselves, or from others.

[0735] They
gave him a helping hand helped him,
each one according to the best of his as his
powers permitted according to his means
or as the humour cast him,

[0735] out of
gratitude towards him but for whom
they would never have come into the world
or saying with indulgence, If it had not
been he ^{[place = supralinear] him} it would have been someone
else.

[0736] Big Louis was completely toothless
and smoked his cigarettes in a holder,
while regretting his pipe.

[0737] He was highly
thought of as a bleeder and disjointer of
pigs and was greatly sought after,
no, that I exaggerate, in this capacity,
for his fee was inferior to the butcher's
and he even had been even known to
accept ^{[place = supralinear] ask no more, in return for his services}, by way of remuneration,

[0737] no
more a gammon, or a little bacon.
^{[place = supralinear] xx} How plausible all that is than a
bit of lump of gammon or lump of gammon
or of pi or a pig's head.

[0738] How plausible all that is. [0740] He often spoke
of his father with respect and tenderness.
[0741] His like will never be seen again, he would
say, once I am gone. [0742] He must have said
that in other words.

[0743] His great days fell
therefore in December and January, and from
February onwards, he looked forward
waited with pat, he waited with impatience
for the return of that season, the principal