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So to change the subject he read about Dignam, R. I. P., which, he reflected, was anything but a gay sendoff.

This morning (Hynes put in, of course), the remains of the late Mr Patrick Dignam were removed from his residence, n° Newbridge Avenue, ''Sandymount, for interment in Glasnevin. The deceased gentleman was a most popular'' and genial personality in city life and his demise, after a brief illness, came as great ''shock to citizens of all classes by whom he is deeply regretted. The obsequies, at which'' many friends of the deceased were present, were carried out (certainly Hynes wrote it with a nudge from Corny) by Messrs. H. J. O’Neill & Son, 164 North Strand ''road. The mourners included : Patk. Dignam (son), Bernard Corrigan (brother-in- law), John Henry Menton, solr., Martin Cunningham, John Power eatondph '' ador dorador douradora (must be where he called Monks the dayfather about Keyes’s ad) Thomas Kernan, Simon Dedalus, B. A.Simon Dedalus, Stephen Dedalus, B. A. [sic], Edward J. Lambert, Cornelius Kelleher, Joseph M C. Hynes, L. Bloom, C. P. M’Coy, M’Intosh, and several others.

Nettled not a little by L. BoomL. Bloom [sic] (as it incorrectly stated) and the line of bitched type, but tickled to death simultaneously by C. P. M’Coy and Stephen Dedalus, B. A., who were conspicuous, needless to say, by their total absence (to say nothing of M’Intosh), L. Boom pointed it out to his companion B. A., engaged in stifling another yawn, half nervousness, not forgetting the usual crop of nonsensical howlers of misprints.

Is that first epistle to the Hebrews, he asked, as soon as his bottom jaw would let him, in? Text : open thy mouth and put thy foot in it.

It is, really, Mr Bloom said (though first he fancied he alluded to the archbishop till he added about foot and mouth with which there could be no possible connection) overjoyed to set his mind at rest and a bit flabbergasted at Myles Crawford’s after all managing the thing, there.

While the other was reading it on page two Boom (to give him for the nonce his new misnomer) whiled away a few odd leisure moments in fits and starts with the account of the third event at Ascot on page three, his side-value 1,000 sovs., with 3,000 sovs. in specie added for entire colts and fillies. Mr F. Alexander’s Throwaway, b. h. by Rightaway, 5 yrs, 9 st 4 lbs, Thrale (W. Lane) 1. Lord Howard de Walden’s Zinfandel (M. Cannon) 2. Mr W. Bass’s Sceptre, 3. Bettings 5 to 4 on Zinfandel, 20 to 1 Throwaway (off). Throwaway and Zinfandel stood close order. It was anybody’s race then the rank outsider drew to the fore got long lead, beating lord Howard de Walden’s chestnut colt and Mr W. Bass’s bay filly Sceptre on a 2 1/2 mile course. Winner