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Ulysses

And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering
roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in
barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all
herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O’Connell

Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from
chieftains. Thither the extremely large wains bring foison
of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach,
pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes,
drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and
tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of
onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and
custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red
green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated
apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries,
pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and
raspberries from their canes.
I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him. Come out
here, Geraghty, you notorious bloody hill and dale robber!
And by that way wend the herds innumerable of
bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs
and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares
and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and
Cuffe’s prime springers and culls and sowpigs and
baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly

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