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see it in your face. see it in your eye. lazy idle little schemer.

-- foot and mouth disease! the editor cried in scornful invective. great nationalist meeting in borris-in-ossory. all balls! bulldosing the public! give them something with a bite in it. put us all into it, damn its soul. father son and holy ghost and fakes m'carthy.

-- we can all supply mental pabulum, mr o'madden burke said.

stephen raised his eyes to the bold unheeding stare.

-- he wants you for the pressgang, j.j. o'molloy said.

the great gallaher

-- you can do it, myles crawford repeated, clenching his hand in emphasis. wait a minute. we'll paralyse europe as ignatius gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmarking in the clarence. gallaher, that was a pressman for you. that was a pen. you know how he made his mark? i'll tell you. that was the smartest piece of journalism ever known. that was in eightyone, sixth of may, time of the invincibles, murder in the phoenix park, before you were born, i suppose. i'll you.

he pushed past them to the files.

-- look at here, he said, turning. the new york world cabled for a special. remember that time?

professor machugh nodded.

-- new york world, the editor said, excitedly pushing back his straw hat. where it took place. tim kelly, or kavanagh i mean, joe brady and the rest of them. where skin-the-goat drove the car. whole route, see?

-- skin-the-goat, mr o'madden burke said. fitzharris. he has that cabman's shelter, they say, down there at butt bridge. holohan told me. you know holohan?

-- hop and carry one, is it? myles crawford said.

-- and poor gumley is down there too, so he told me, minding stones for the corporation. a night watchman.

stephen turned in surprise.

-- gumley? he said. you don't say so? a friend of my father's, is he?

-- never mind gumley, myles crawford cried angrily. let gumley mind the stones, see they don't run away. look at here. what did ignatius gallaher do? i'll tell you. inspiration of genius. cabled right away. have you weekly freeman of 17 march? right. have you got that?