"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moo-cow coming down along the road and this moo-cow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ... 

     His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

     He was. baby tuckoo.  The moo-cow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived.  She sold lemon platt." 

                        -  the opening lines of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man