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Ulysses

provoking fashion. Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring
trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy
element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real
Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their

hardearned pennies. The children of the Male and Female
Foundling Hospital who thronged the windows
overlooking the scene were delighted with this
unexpected addition to the day’s entertainment and a
word of praise is due to the Little Sisters of the Poor for
their excellent idea of affording the poor fatherless and
motherless children a genuinely instructive treat. The
viceregal houseparty which included many wellknown
ladies was chaperoned by Their Excellencies to the most
favourable positions on the grandstand while the
picturesque foreign delegation known as the Friends of the
Emerald Isle was accommodated on a tribune directly
opposite. The delegation, present in full force, consisted of
Commendatore Bacibaci Beninobenone (the
semiparalysed doyen of the party who had to be assisted to
his seat by the aid of a powerful steam crane), Monsieur
Pierrepaul Petitépatant, the Grandjoker Vladinmire
Pokethankertscheff, the Archjoker Leopold Rudolph von
Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler, Countess Marha Virága
Kisászony Putrápesthi, Hiram Y. Bomboost, Count

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