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

—­This morning (Hynes put it in of course) the remains of the late Mr Patrick Dignam were removed from his residence, no 9 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 A 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 and son, 164 north strand road.  The mourners included:  Patk.  Dignam (son), Bernard Corrigan (brother-in-law), JNO.  Henry Menton, SOLR, Martin Cunningham, John power, .)EATONDPH 1/8 ADOR DORADOR DOURADORA (must be where he called Monks the dayfather about Keyes’s ad) Thomas Kernan, Simon Dedalus, Stephen Dedalus B. ,4., EDW.  J. Lambert, Cornelius T. Kelleher, Joseph M’C Hynes, L. Boom, CP M’COY,—­ M’LNTOSH and several others.

Nettled not a little by L. Boom (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 to.  There.