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Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her.

(All their heads turned to his voice.) Really?

(Snarls.) Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five.

(All their heads lowered in assent.) Most of us thought as much.

He is a marked man. Another girl’s plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward.

(Awed, whispers.) And in black. A mormon. Anarchist.

(Loudly.) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable...

I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest. Scandalous! (He dons the black cap.) Let him be taken, Mr Subsheriff, from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty’s pleasure and there be hanged by the neck until he