"Oh day of rath!"

(339.18-341.17)  The Butt and Taff play resumes with Taff marveling, somewhat mockingly, at the Russian General's outfit as described by Butt.  "Some garmentguy!" he says.  Undeterred, Butt further mythologizes the Russian General by likening him to a bear king, "raigning in his heavenspawn consomation robes," which are rainbow-colored.  As Butt describes the General-bear stepping forward and stooping before the assembled crowd, Taff tries to make the Sign of the Cross, but has trouble (perhaps on account of his own Russian origin and the fact that he was a later convert to Catholicism).  Instead of "The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, amen," all Taff can muster is "a little farther, a little soon, a letteracettera, oukraydoubray."

The stage directions now have Butt pointing out landmarks surrounding the field of battle, including the "field of karhags and that bloasted tree" (recalling the stone and tree that have reappeared throughout the Wake).  Nearby is "[t]heir feery pass," which isn't too far off from "Phoenix Park."  It comes as no surprise, then, that Butt describes the "guerillaman" (HCE), who carries "aspear aspoor to prink the pranks of the primkissies" (a "spear" that he will use to molest the young women) and is spied on by "the buddies behind in the byre" (the three soldiers behind the bushes).  Hardly a day goes by when HCE's sin in the park is not brought right back to the forefront.

The pessimist "blackseer" Taff sees the eventual fall of the Russian General/HCE and laments its effect on both the larger world and his family (particularly his mother, he is a form of ALP, after all):  "Oh day of rath!  Ah, murther of mines!  Eh, selo moy!  Uh, zulu luy!"  Butt goes on to say that, after the General "devoused the lelias on the fined" (as McHugh notes, "defiled the lilies of the field"), he "conforted samp, tramp and marchint out of the drumbume of a narse" (or confronted the three soldiers and perhaps disarmed them).

At this point, Taff is just as eager to hear the rest of the story as the patrons in the pub were earlier.  "Divulge!" he shouts.  Soon after, he adds, "Bang on the booche, gurg in the gorge, rap on the roof and your flup is unb..." (in other words, he continues to urge Butt on, but can't help but note that his counterpart's fly is unbuttoned).  In response to this encouragement, the stage directions have Butt dance as he sings of the climactic moment:

Buckily buckily, blodestained boyne!  Bimbambombumb.  His snapper was shot in the Rumjar Journaral.  Why the gigls he lubbed beeyed him.

Butt thus has Buckley shoot the Russian General while the two young women watch, with his motive being the General's molestation of those girls and his subsequent confrontation of the soldiers.  The weight of the moment causes Taff (who's dancing a two-step) to "trumble."  Butt, for his part, concludes today's passage by essentially saying that the General got what was coming to him:  "By their lights shalthow throw him!  Piff paff for puffpuff and my pife for his cgar!  The mlachy way for gambling."