"But low, boys low, he rises"

(239.16-241.7)  Our reading for today begins by wrapping up the subject of yesterday's passage, the Flora's enlightenment.  "Hightime is ups" -- it's time to move on -- "be it down into outs according!"  Eventually these "romance catholeens" (both the romantic young women and the Roman Catholics) will be emancipated, but until that happens, the Floras will go on dancing "in gyrogyrorondo."

But as the Floras were dancing up the hillside around Chuff, a sound of "oaths and screams and bawley groans with a belchybubhub and a hellabelow" could be heard.  The dark and hellish language indicates that these sounds are coming from the outcast Glugg, and we presently learn that "poor Glugger was dazed and late in his crave, ay he, laid in his grave."  This being Finnegans Wake, though, we haven't heard the last of Glugg.  Indeed, he now rises "with his spittyful eyes and whoozebecome woice."

The resurrected Glugg has turned over a new leaf.  He examines his conscience and recants his heresies.  This "wheedhearted boy of potter and mudder, chip of old Flinn the Flinter, twig of the hider that tanned him" is now going to tell his story.  He begins by talking of his direct relation, his father, here "Anaks Andrum" (one meaning for this offered by McHugh is the Greek "anax andrôn," which translates to "lord of men").  Andrum, we learn, is the proprietor of a "Drugmalt storehuse" (much like HCE's pub).  He seems to be an upstanding gentleman, but rumors persist about him.  Some say he has committed bribery.  And some ditch diggers say that he has used candy to lure young women "with pruriest pollygameous inatentions."  What else is said about this version of HCE?  We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out . . . .