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Thomas Kernan, Simon Dedalus, Stephen Dedalus B. ,4.,
Edw. J. Lambert, Cornelius T. Kelleher, Joseph M’C Hynes, L.
Boom, CP M’Coy,—M’ lntosh and several others.
Nettled not a little by L. Boom (as it incorrectly stated)
and the line of bitched type but tickled to death simultane-
ously by C. P. M’Coy and Stephen Dedalus B. A. who were
conspicuous, needless to say, by their total absence (to say
nothing of M’Intosh) L. Boom pointed it out to his compan-
ion B. A. engaged in stifling another yawn, half nervousness,
not forgetting the usual crop of nonsensical howlers of mis-
prints.
—Is that first epistle to the Hebrews, he asked as soon as
his bottom jaw would let him, in? Text: open thy mouth and
put thy foot in it.
—It is. Really, Mr Bloom said (though first he fancied
he alluded to the archbishop till he added about foot and
mouth with which there could be no possible connection)
overjoyed to set his mind at rest and a bit flabbergasted at
Myles Crawford’s after all managing to. There.
While the other was reading it on page two Boom (to
give him for the nonce his new misnomer) whiled away a
few odd leisure moments in fits and starts with the account
of the third event at Ascot on page three, his side. Value
1000 sovs with 3000 sovs in specie added. For entire colts
and fillies. Mr F. Alexander’s Throwaway, b. h. by Right-
away, 5 yrs, 9 st 4 lbs (W. Lane) 1, lord Howard de Walden’s
Zinfandel (M. Cannon) z, Mr W. Bass’s Sceptre 3. Betting 5
to 4 on Zinfandel, 20 to 1 Throwaway (off ). Sceptre a shade
heavier, 5 to 4 on Zinfandel, 20 to 1 Throwaway (off ). Throw-