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Ulysses

—O, Christ M’Keown, says Joe, reading one of the
letters. Listen to this, will you?
And he starts reading out one.
7 Hunter Street, Liverpool.

To the High Sheriff of Dublin, Dublin.
Honoured sir i beg to offer my services in the abovementioned
painful case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of
Febuary 1900 and i hanged ...
—Show us, Joe, says I.
— ... private Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in
Pentonville prison and i was assistant when ...
—Jesus, says I.
— ... Billington executed the awful murderer Toad Smith ...
The citizen made a grab at the letter.
—Hold hard, says Joe, i have a special nack of putting the
noose once in he can’t get out hoping to be favoured i remain,
honoured sir, my terms is five ginnees.
H. RUMBOLD,
MASTER BARBER.
—And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the
citizen.
—And the dirty scrawl of the wretch, says Joe. Here,
says he, take them to hell out of my sight, Alf. Hello,
Bloom, says he, what will you have?

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