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(Writes on the wall.) Bloom is a cod.

(In bushranger’s kit.) What did you do in the cattlecreep behind Kilbarrack?

(Shakes a rattle.) And under Ballybough bridge?

And in the devil’s glen?

(Blushes furiously all over from frons to nates, three tears falling from his left eye.) Spare my past.

(In bodycoats, kneebreeches, with Donnybrook fair shillelaghs.) Sjambok him!

(In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) And he shall carry the sins of the people to Azazel, the spirit which is in the wilderness, and to Lilith, the