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Ulysses

Lady Gwendolen Dubedat bursts through the throng, leaps on his
horse and kisses him on both cheeks amid great acclamation. A
magnesium flashlight photograph is taken. Babes and sucklings

are held up.)
THE WOMEN: Little father! Little father!
THE BABES AND SUCKLINGS:

Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home,
Cakes in his pocket for Leo alone.

(Bloom, bending down, pokes Baby Boardman gently in the
stomach.)
BABY BOARDMAN: (Hiccups, curdled milk flowing from

his mouth) Hajajaja.
BLOOM: (Shaking hands with a blind stripling) My more
than Brother! (Placing his arms round the shoulders of an old
couple) Dear old friends! (He plays pussy fourcorners with
ragged boys and girls) Peep! Bopeep! (He wheels twins in a
perambulator) Ticktacktwo wouldyousetashoe? (He performs
juggler’s tricks, draws red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and
violet silk handkerchiefs from his mouth) Roygbiv. 32 feet per
second. (He consoles a widow) Absence makes the heart
grow younger. (He dances the Highland fling with grotesque
antics) Leg it, ye devils! (He kisses the bedsores of a palsied
veteran) Honourable wounds! (He trips up a fit policeman) U.

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