(General laughter.)
George Fottrell: (Clerk of the crown and peace, resonantly) Order in court! The accused will now make a bogus statement.
(Bloom, pleading not guilty and
holding A FULLBLOWN Waterlily, begins
A
long unintelligible speech. They
would hear what counsel had
to say in
his stirring address to the
grand jury. He was down
and out but, though
branded as A black sheep, if
he might say so, he meant
to reform, to
retrieve the memory of the
past in A purely sisterly way
and return to
nature as A purely domestic animal.
A SEVENMONTHS’ child, he had been
carefully brought up and nurtured
by an aged bedridden parent.
There
might have been lapses of
an erring father but he wanted
to turn over A
new leaf and now, when at
long last in sight of the
whipping post, to
lead A homely life in the
evening of his days, permeated
by the
affectionate surroundings of the
heaving bosom of the family.
An
acclimatised Britisher, he had
seen that summer eve from
the footplate of
an engine cab of the loop
line railway company while the
rain refrained
from falling glimpses, as it
were, through the windows of
LOVEFUL
households in Dublin city and
Urban district of scenes truly
rural of
happiness of the better land
with Dockrell’s wallpaper at
one and
ninepence A dozen, innocent BRITISHBORN
bairns lisping prayers to the
sacred infant, youthful scholars
grappling with their PENSUMS or