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Ulysses

twelvemonth and with other three all breastfed that died
written out in a fair hand in the king’s bible. Her hub fifty
odd and a methodist but takes the sacrament and is to be
seen any fair sabbath with a pair of his boys off Bullock

harbour dapping on the sound with a heavybraked reel or
in a punt he has trailing for flounder and pollock and
catches a fine bag, I hear. In sum an infinite great fall of
rain and all refreshed and will much increase the harvest
yet those in ken say after wind and water fire shall come
for a prognostication of Malachi’s almanac (and I hear that
Mr Russell has done a prophetical charm of the same gist
out of the Hindustanish for his farmer’s gazette) to have
three things in all but this a mere fetch without bottom of
reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are
found in the right guess with their queerities no telling
how.
With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to
say how the letter was in that night’s gazette and he made
a show to find it about him (for he swore with an oath
that he had been at pains about it) but on Stephen’s
persuasion he gave over the search and was bidden to sit
near by which he did mighty brisk. He was a kind of sport
gentleman that went for a merryandrew or honest pickle
and what belonged of women, horseflesh or hot scandal he

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