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―Now it is all about politics in the papers, he said. Do your people talk about that too?

―Yes, Stephen said.

―Mine too, he said.

Then he thought for a moment and said:

―You have a queer name, Dedalus, and I have a queer name too, Athy. My name is the name of a town. Your name is like Latin.

Then he asked:

―Are you good at riddles?

Stephen answered:

―Not very good.

Then he said:

―Can you answer me this one? Why is the county of Kildare like the leg of a fellow’s breeches?

Stephen thought what could be the answer and then said:

―I give it up.

―Because there is a thigh in it, he said. Do you see the joke? Athy is the town in the county Kildare and a thigh is the other thigh.