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(561.1-562.36)  Matthew begins to introduce the Porter children in today's reading  There are "two rooms on the upstairs, at forklank and at knifekanter" (as McHugh notes, the forkroom is on the left, and the kniferoom is on the right).  "Whom in the wood are they for?" Matt posits.  "Why, for little Porter babes, to be saved!"  Buttercup (Isabel) sleeps in room number one.  Of her name, Matthew says that "you will hear it passim in all the noveletta."  The usual fawning description of Isabel follows.  Notably, she's treated here as very young.  She is "dadad's lottiest daughterperal," and Matthew warns his listeners not to go near her room:  "Approach not for ghost sake!  It is dormition!"  She is "never alone," for she has a pet, "Biddles," which she can talk to and play with.  McHugh notes numerous allusions to the Virgin Mary in the description of Buttercup, and she is set above "all the other common marygales that romp round brigidschool," including "charming Carry Whambers or saucy Susy Maucepan of Merry Anna Patchbox or silly Polly Flinders."

The twin brothers -- the "twobirds" -- "doez in sleeproom number twobis."  They're close, so close that they "seem to be so tightly tattached as two maggots to touch other."  Matthew concludes today's passage with a brief description of the brother on the "heartsleeveside" of the bed, Frank Kevin (Shaun).  "Do not you waken him!" Matthew warns.  He looks like "the blissed angel" while he sleeps, and Matthew says that some day he will "quit our ingletears" and go "to Amorica to quest a cashy job" (hinted at in Shaun's leaving at the end of chapter two of this Book).  He's been featured before in the Wake, Matthew believes, and he will eventually replace HCE:  "I guess to have seen somekid like him in the story book, guess I met somewhere somelam to whom he will be becoming liker."  Matthew begs forgiveness for this brief diversion before moving on in tomorrow's reading.