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Ulysses

distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks
of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated
milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling,
cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling,

grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and
heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush
and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of
Thomond, from the M’Gillicuddy’s reeks the inaccessible
and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle
declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders
distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter
and rennets of cheese and farmer’s firkins and targets of
lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great
hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun.
So we turned into Barney Kiernan’s and there, sure
enough, was the citizen up in the corner having a great
confab with himself and that bloody mangy mongrel,
Garryowen, and he waiting for what the sky would drop
in the way of drink.
—There he is, says I, in his gloryhole, with his
cruiskeen lawn and his load of papers, working for the
cause.
The bloody mongrel let a grouse out of him would
give you the creeps. Be a corporal work of mercy if

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