"It is minely well mint."

(313.7-315.20)  Ok, now it gets tough again.  For whatever reason, I found today's reading significantly more difficult than yesterday's.  I did note that Campbell and Robinson explained that this part of the chapter gets murkier and murkier as it goes along -- with HCE's pub getting louder and louder as the patrons get drunker and drunker -- and that things don't start getting clearer for another 10 to 12 pages.  So, as I've been (mostly) doing thus far, I'll keep chugging along.

The passage begins with Kersse agreeing to track down the Norwegian Captain.  He does so with the knowledge that every joy-seeking widower eventually gets pneumonia and "is consitently blown to Adams" (or atoms).  In other words, the captain is set up for a fall.

HCE pauses in his story to count the coins in his till, while three conniving patrons (who immediately call to mind the three soldiers who witnessed HCE's sinful act in the park) "pushed their whisper in his hearing."  It seems that at this point, some patron ("the queriest of the crew") trips over some portion of the floor where planks have been removed and falls, causing our latest thunderword:  "Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamuansturnup!"  This word is both the sound of the tremendous noise in the pub and (as Campbell and Robinson explain) the sound of HCE's reputation falling.  The three soldier-patrons comment on the ruckus, with the third saying, "Rutsch is for rutterman ramping his roe . . . .  Where the muddies scrimm ball.  Bimbim bimbim.  And the maidies scream all.  Himhim himhim."  The soldier link is cemented here, for this one is saying he's seen this before, by the magazine wall in the park.  It was there that the two young women -- the maidies -- screamed "it was him," and thereby implicated HCE.

The narrator now presents a brief interlude in which it's repeated that with "luck's leap" HCE -- the "cwympty dwympty who has fallen again -- will be restored.  In the future, the narrator tells us, this story will feature both on the radio and on the silver screen of the cinema.

In the next paragraph, one of the patrons asks what became of the Norwegian Captain's daughter, who we learn was the apple of the captain's eye.  She walked to school in her slippers, and, given her family's poverty, it was no wonder that she fell for a "butcheler artsed out of Cullege Trainity" (at bachelor of arts from Trinity College).  Back in the pub, another patron wants more beer, and proposes that they use the money they've already offered to HCE to refill their glasses.

Shortly after this proposition is set forth, HCE returns as "Burniface" (as McHugh notes, a generic name for innkeepers based on St. Boniface).  He has gone outside to "let flow" (urinate). After delivering "the diluv's own deluge," HCE has "breezed in, tripping, dripping," with his pants not fully returned to their proper position.  The narrator notes that he's "left his stickup in his hand to show them none ill feeling" (I'll leave it to you to interpret that bit).  Back at his post in the pub, HCE greets his customers with, "Howe cools Eavybrolly!"