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 [t]his 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 ^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 ^{ask no more, in return for his services}, by way of remuneration,

[0737] no
more [a gammon], or a little [bacon].
^[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