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Ulysses

Athanatos Karamelopulos, Ali Baba Backsheesh Rahat
Lokum Effendi, Senor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y
Palabras y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria,
Hokopoko Harakiri, Hi Hung Chang, Olaf

Kobberkeddelsen, Mynheer Trik van Trumps, Pan
Poleaxe Paddyrisky, Goosepond Prhklstr
Kratchinabritchisitch, Borus Hupinkoff, Herr
Hurhausdirektorpresident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli,
Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensoriumso
rdinaryprivatdocent- generalhistoryspecialprofessordoctor
Kriegfried Ueberallgemein. All the delegates without
exception expressed themselves in the strongest possible
heterogeneous terms concerning the nameless barbarity
which they had been called upon to witness. An animated
altercation (in which all took part) ensued among the F.
O. T. E. I. as to whether the eighth or the ninth of March
was the correct date of the birth of Ireland’s patron saint.
In the course of the argument cannonballs, scimitars,
boomerangs, blunderbusses, stinkpots, meatchoppers,
umbrellas, catapults, knuckledusters, sandbags, lumps of
pig iron were resorted to and blows were freely
exchanged. The baby policeman, Constable MacFadden,
summoned by special courier from Booterstown, quickly
restored order and with lightning promptitude proposed

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