The Children’s Hour (Finnegans Wake II.1) is a lovely little chapter.

The structure is simple: Shem and Shaun – under the guise of Glugg and Chuff – are playing a game with Issy, who appears as Izod and the Floras (the flower girls, the 28 girls who are aspects of her, a “month’s bunch of pretty maidens” – associated with the monthly, lunar cycle – which makes Issy the 29th, the leap year girl).