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on account of it being cruel for the wife having to go round after the old stuttering fool. Cruelty to animals so it is to let that bloody povertystricken Breen out on grass with his beard out tripping him, bringing down the rain. And she with her nose cockahoop after she married him because a cousin of his old fellow's was pew opener to the pope. Picture of him on the wall with his smashall sweeney's moustaches, the signor Brini from Summerhill, the eyetallyano, papal zouave to the Holy Father, has left the quay and gone to Moss street. And who was he, tell us? A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week, and he covered with all kinds of breastplates bidding defiance to the world.



— And moreover, says J.J., a postcard is publication. It was held to be sufficient evidence of malice in the testcase Sadgrove v. Hole. In my opinion an action might lie.

Six and eightpence, please. Who wants your opinion? Let us drink our pints in peace. Gob, we won't be let even do that much itself.



— Well, good health, Jack, says Ned.



— Good health, Ned, says J.J.



— There he is again, says Joe.



— Where? says Alf.



And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him like a father, trying to sell him a secondhand coffin.



— How did that Canada swindle case go off? says Joe.



— Remanded, says J.J.



One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob. What? Do you see any green in the white of my eye? Course it was a bloody barney. What? Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too. J.J. was telling us there was an ancient Hebrew Zaretsky or something weeping in the witnessbox with his hat on him, swearing by the holy Moses he was stuck for two quid.

fdv: "Bloody jewman it was called himself James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the paper saying he'd give you a passage to Canada for one quid. What? Course it was a barney. Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too. J.J. was telling there was an ancient Hebrew Zaretsky or something got badly landed. Put on his hat to swear in the witness box.
-- Who tried the case?
-- The recorder.
And on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess, ruler of the heavens, the daughter of the skies being then in her first quarter, the lady moon, the learned judge Frederick the Falconer, repaired them to the halls of justice. And there he sat to"


— Who tried the case? says Joe.



— Recorder, says Ned.



— Poor old sir Frederick, says Alf, you can cod him up to the two eyes.



— Heart as big as a lion, says Ned. Tell him a tale of woe about arrears

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