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[glowworm gleam] abc/midi, abc
Asbury's "Hatrack" [pdf]

by Bruce Bairnsfather

V.P.H.

[Move up. Mumpty! Mike room for Rumpty!]

FDV: "The black hand had done him in. On his postern had been nailed the title: Move up, Dumpty. Make room for Humpty! Indeed several wellwishers bought copies of the evening editions just to make sure whether he was genuinely dead. But on the morrow morn of suicide & expatriated half past eight ¼ o'clock saw the unfailing spike of smoke plume punctual from his chimneypipe and ten thirsty p.m., a suffusion of the leadlight panes."

FDV2: "Aerials buzzed of a finding of a bloody antichill cloak with a tailor's tab reading V.P.H. & all shivered to think what beast had devoured him. On his postern had been nailed the title: Move up, Dumpty. Make room for Humpty! and this time no mistake the boys had done him in. Indeed several wellwishers went so far as to buy copies of the evening editions just to make sure whether he was genuinely quite dead. But on the morrow morn of the suicidal murder unrescued & expatriated half past ¼ to 9 o'clock saw the unfailing spike of smoke plume punctual from his 7th gable and ten thirsty p.m., the lamps of maintenance lighted for the long night a suffusion of leadlight panes. Therefore let it be neither said nor thought that the inhabitant of that sacred edifice was a parable merely nor more strictly H.C.E. a nonens. Not one of his many contemporaries seriously doubted or for long of his legitimate existence."


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