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Ulysses

Listen to the births and deaths in the Irish all for Ireland
Independent, and I’ll thank you and the marriages.
And he starts reading them out:

—Gordon, Barnfield crescent, Exeter; Redmayne of
Iffley, Saint Anne’s on Sea: the wife of William T
Redmayne of a son. How’s that, eh? Wright and Flint,
Vincent and Gillett to Rotha Marion daughter of Rosa
and the late George Alfred Gillett, 179 Clapham road,
Stockwell, Playwood and Ridsdale at Saint Jude’s,
Kensington by the very reverend Dr Forrest, dean of
Worcester. Eh? Deaths. Bristow, at Whitehall lane,
London: Carr, Stoke Newington, of gastritis and heart
disease: Cockburn, at the Moat house, Chepstow ...
—I know that fellow, says Joe, from bitter experience.
—Cockburn. Dimsey, wife of David Dimsey, late of
the admiralty: Miller, Tottenham, aged eightyfive: Welsh,
June 12, at 35 Canning street, Liverpool, Isabella Helen.
How’s that for a national press, eh, my brown son! How’s
that for Martin Murphy, the Bantry jobber?
—Ah, well, says Joe, handing round the boose. Thanks
be to God they had the start of us. Drink that, citizen.
—I will, says he, honourable person.
—Health, Joe, says I. And all down the form.

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