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Rumpled stockings. Or the one in Grafton street. White.
Wow! Beef to the heel.
A monkey puzzle rocket burst, spluttering in darting
crackles. Zrads and zrads, zrads, zrads. And Cissy and

Tommy and Jacky ran out to see and Edy after with the
pushcar and then Gerty beyond the curve of the rocks.
Will she? Watch! Watch! See! Looked round. She smelt an
onion. Darling, I saw, your. I saw all.
Lord!
Did me good all the same. Off colour after Kiernan’s,
Dignam’s. For this relief much thanks. In Hamlet, that is.
Lord! It was all things combined. Excitement. When she
leaned back, felt an ache at the butt of my tongue. Your
head it simply swirls. He’s right. Might have made a worse
fool of myself however. Instead of talking about nothing.
Then I will tell you all. Still it was a kind of language
between us. It couldn’t be? No, Gerty they called her.
Might be false name however like my name and the
address Dolphin’s barn a blind.
Her maiden name was Jemina Brown
And she lived with her mother in Irishtown.
Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with
the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings. But the
ball rolled down to her as if it understood. Every bullet has

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