122 100 112 112 While the old man's eccentricities,
sometimes bordering on the ursine,
repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred
thereby, would make advances, ^ revering him as a salt hero, never
passing the venerable brave old Agammenon-man
without a salutation marked b by that
respect which is seldom lost on the aged
however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.
There was a fantastic
vien of dry humor, or what not, in the
mast-man; and, weather in freak of
patriarchal hum irony touching Billy's
youth and athletic frame, or for some other ^ and more recondite reason,
from the first invariably in addressing him he ^ always substituted
Baby for Billy.
122 100 112 112 While the old man's eccentricities,
sometimes bordering on the ursine,
repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred
thereby, would make advances, ^ revering him as a salt hero, never
passing the venerable brave old Agammenon-man
without a salutation marked b by that
respect which is seldom lost on the aged
however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.
There was a fantastic
vien of dry humor, or what not, in the
mast-man; and, weather in freak of
patriarchal hum irony touching Billy's
youth and athletic frame, or for some other ^ and more recondite reason,
from the first invariably in addressing him he ^ always substituted
Baby for Billy.

Transcribed by: John Bryant