"look before you leak, dears"

(433.10-435.12)  With his text for the mass in hand, Shaun (for convenience's sake, I'm probably going to all him by his actual name, and not Jaun, for most of this chapter) begins what might be called his sermon or homily.  For the first two pages, at least, this sermon consists primarily of instructions or admonishments for the girls to follow in their quest to lead good and virtuous lives.  (One amusing and notable digression occurs when Shaun inquires about the disappearance of some biscuits:  "And, by the bun, is it you goes bisbuiting His Esaus and Cos and then throws them bag in the box?  Why the tin's nearly empty.")  The advice is pedantic (would we expect anything less from the blustery Shaun?), and seems to flow out of Shaun's mouth with little concern for pace or order.

The sermon is straightforward (for Finnegans Wake) and its rambling length is part of the point (Shaun's trying to bludgeon as much as persuade), so I'll just point out a few of my favorite bits here:

• "Never park your brief stays in the men's convenience."
• "Where you truss be circumspicious and look before you leak, dears."  (Here, Shaun urges the girls to avoid the mistake of the two young women in the park, which occasioned HCE's downfall.)
• "Give back those stolen kisses; restaure those all-cotten glooves."
•  "Scenta Clauthes stiffstuffs your hose and heartsies full of temptiness."
• "For if the shorth of your skorth falls down to his knees pray how wrong will he look till he rises?  Not before Gravesend is commuted."

The passage for today ends with a man named Autist Algy (whom Shaun says "reappears" on the scene at this moment).  Algy seems to be keen to tempt the girls toward the proverbial flood, as he's "stated by the vice crusaders to be well known to all the dallytaunties" and will take his target to the "playguehouse," where he will slyly ask her to "be an artist's moral and pose in your nudies" before the four old men (here four "voluble old masters," Bottisilly, Titteretto, Vergognese, and Coraggio) and the dozen jurors/pub patrons ("the usual bilker's dozen of dowdycameramen").  "O the frecklessness of the giddies nouveautays!" Shem exclaims.