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Ulysses

direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the
medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in
triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the
circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle

along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the
sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at
right angles and terminating in circles described about two
equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the
mammary prominences. He unbraced successively each of
six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of
which one incomplete.
What involuntary actions followed?
He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh
circumjacent to a cicatrice in the left infracostal region
below the diaphragm resulting from a sting inflicted 2
weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee. He
scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though
insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his
partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. He inserted his left
hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and
extracted and replaced a silver coin (I shilling), placed
there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of
the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.
Compile the budget for 16 June 1904.

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