"Alas, messire, methinks then perchance it may be true that thou, for all thy youth, and despite thine eyes, art a mocker of love, a despiser of women?

THE SECOND CRUCIFIXION Loud mockers in the roaring street Say Christ is crucified again: Twice pierced His gospel-bringing feet, Twice broken His great heart in vain.

" "An' McGinty weakens," laughed the mocker behind the stove-pipe.

So Unc' Billy scratched his head and thought and thought of how he could get Mr. Mocker out of the trouble he had got him into.

Fierce eyed and scant of breath, Beltane redoubled his blows, striving to beat his mocker to the earth, whereat he but laughed again, saying: "Look to thy long legs, dullard!"

[The text is here mutilated: Hasisadra is ordered to threaten the mockers with Ea's vengeance.