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PatrickDignam

  1. As the glossy horses prance by Merrion square I, waiting, see salutes being given to the gent with the topper 8:05 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  2. Never see him again. Death, that is. Pa is dead. My father is dead. He told me to be a good son to ma. 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  3. and he looked butty and short in his shirt. 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  4. The last night pa was boosed he was standing on the landing there bawling out for his boots to go out to Tunney's for to boose more 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  5. Pa was inside it and ma crying in the parlour and uncle Barney telling the men how to get it round the bend. A big coffin it was. 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  6. The scrunch that was when they were screwing the screws into the coffin: and the bumps when they were bringing it downstairs. 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  7. His face got all grey instead of being red like it was and there was a fly walking over it up to his eye. 8:03 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  8. Uncle Barney said he'd get it into the paper tonight. Then they'll all see it in the paper and read my name printed and pa's name. 8:02 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  9. I'm not going tomorrow either, stay away till Monday. I meet other schoolboys. Do they notice I'm in mourning? 8:02 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  10. The blooming stud is too small for the buttonhole of the shirt, blooming end to it. I meet schoolboys with satchels. 8:00 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  11. No Sandymount tram. I walk along Nassau street, shifting the porksteaks to my other hand. My collar springs up again and I tug it down. 8:00 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  12. But the best pucker for science was Jem Corbet before Fitzsimons knocked the stuffings out of him, dodging and all. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  13. The best pucker going for strength was Fitzsimons. One puck in the wind from that fellow would knock you into the middle of next week, man. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  14. One of them mots that do be in the packets of fags Stoer smokes that his old fellow welted hell out of him for one time he found out. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  15. I turn to the right and on my right Master Dignam turns. Buttoning my collar down, I see the image of Marie Kendall, beside the two puckers. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  16. Master Dignam on my left turns as I turn. That's me in mourning. When is it? May the twentysecond. Sure, the blooming thing is all over. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  17. Myler Keogh, Dublin's pet lamb, will meet sergeant major Bennett, the Portobello bruiser, for a purse of fifty sovereigns. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  18. From the sidemirrors two mourning Masters Dignam gape silently. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  19. The window of Madame Doyle, stops me. I stand looking in at the two puckers stripped to their pelts and putting up their props. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API
  20. and they eating crumbs of the cottage fruitcake, jawing the whole blooming time and sighing. 7:28 AM Jun 16th, 2010 via API