The crowd:
Card of the races. Racing
card!
Ten to one the field!
Tommy on the clay here!
Tommy on the clay!
Ten to one bar one! Ten
to one bar one!
Try your luck on Spinning
Jenny!
Ten to one bar one!
Sell the monkey, boys!
Sell the monkey!
I’ll give ten to one!
Ten to one bar one!
(A dark horse, riderless, bolts
like A phantom past the WINNINGPOST,
his
mane MOONFOAMING, his eyeballs stars.
The field follows, A bunch of
bucking Mounts. Skeleton horses,
sceptre, maximum the second, Zinfandel,
the duke of Westminster’s
Shotover, repulse, the duke of
Beaufort’s
Ceylon, prix de paris. Dwarfs
ride them, RUSTYARMOURED, leaping, leaping
in their, in their saddles.
Last in A drizzle of rain
on A BROKENWINDED
Isabelle nag, cock of the
north, the favourite, honey cap,
green jacket,
orange sleeves, Garrett Deasy
up, gripping the reins, A HOCKEYSTICK
at
the ready. His nag on
spavined WHITEGAITERED feet jogs along
the rocky
road.)
The orange lodges: (JEERING) Get down and push, mister. Last lap! You’ll be home the night!
Garrett Deasy: (Bolt upright, his NAILSCRAPED face plastered with POSTAGESTAMPS, brandishes his HOCKEYSTICK, his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier as his mount Lopes by at schooling gallop)
Per Vias RECTAS!
(A yoke of buckets leopards all over him and his rearing nag A torrent of mutton broth with dancing coins of carrots, Barley, onions, turnips, potatoes.)
The green lodges: Soft day, sir John! Soft day, your honour!
(Private Carr, private Compton
and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath
the
windows, singing in discord.)
Stephen: Hark! Our friend noise in the street.