The Annotated "Ulysses"/Page 094
— We are going the pace, I think, Martin Cunningham said.
— God grant he doesn’t upset us on the road, Mr Power said.
— I hope not, Martin Cunningham said. That will be a great race
tomorrow in Germany. The Gordon Bennett.
— Yes, by Jove, Mr Dedalus said. That will be worth seeing, faith.
As they turned into Berkeley street a streetorgan near the Basin sent over and
after them a rollicking rattling song of the halls. Has anybody here seen
Kelly? Kay ee double ell wy. Dead march from Saul. He’s as bad as old
Antonio. He left me on my ownio. Pirouette! The Mater Misericordiæ. Eccles
street. My house down there. Big place. Ward for incurables there. Very
encouraging. Our Lady’s Hospice for the dying. Deadhouse handy underneath.
Where old Mrs Riordan died. They look terrible the women. Her feeding
cup and rubbing her mouth with the spoon. Then the screen round her bed
for her to die. Nice young student that was dressed that bite the bee gave
me. He’s gone over to the lying-in hospital they told me. From one extreme
to the other.
The carriage galloped round a corner : stopped.
— What’s wrong now?
A divided drove of branded cattle passed the windows, lowing, slouching
by on padded hoofs, whisking their tails slowly on their clotted bony croups.
Outside them and through them ran raddled sheep bleating their fear.
— Emigrants, Mr Power said.
— Huuuh! the drover’s voice cried, his switch sounding on their flanks.
Huuuh! out of that!
Thursday of course. Tomorrow is killing day. Springers. Cuffe sold them
about twentyseven quid each. For Liverpool probably. Roast beef for old
England. They buy up all the juicy ones. And then the fifth quarter is lost :
all that raw stuff, hide, hair, horns. Comes to a big thing in a year. Dead
meat trade. Byproducts of the slaughterhouses for tanneries, soap, margarine.
Wonder if that dodge works now getting dicky meat off the train at Clonsilla.
The carriage moved on through the drove.
— I can’t make out why the corporation doesn’t run a tramline from the
parkgate to the quays, Mr Bloom said. All those animals could be taken in trucks
down to the boats.
— Instead of blocking up the thoroughfare, Martin Cunningham said.
Quite right. They ought to.
— Yes, Mr Bloom said, and another thing I often thought is to have