Tumptytumtoes

• Humpty Dumpty

• Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscapr, with his head beneath Howth (Da hoved: head) and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park

• tum-ti-tum: a reiterated strumming, as of a stringed instrument

• t-t-t-toes: stuttering → HCE is a stutterer, like Parnell, his "hesitancy of speech" betraying his guilt

• tum, tummy: stomach

• tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb