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Ulysses

Galway harbour scheme was mooted by a Mr
Worthington or some name like that, eh? Ask the then
captain, he advised them, how much palmoil the British
government gave him for that day’s work, Captain John

Lever of the Lever Line.
—Am I right, skipper? he queried of the sailor, now
returning after his private potation and the rest of his
exertions.
That worthy picking up the scent of the fagend of the
song or words growled in wouldbe music but with great
vim some kind of chanty or other in seconds or thirds. Mr
Bloom’s sharp ears heard him then expectorate the plug
probably (which it was), so that he must have lodged it for
the time being in his fist while he did the drinking and
making water jobs and found it a bit sour after the liquid
fire in question. Anyhow in he rolled after his successful
libation-cum-potation, introducing an atmosphere of drink
into the soirée, boisterously trolling, like a veritable son of a
seacook:
—The biscuits was as hard as brass
And the beef as salt as Lot’s wife’s arse.
O, Johnny Lever!
Johnny Lever, O!

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