He paused. Mr. Dedalus, lifting his head from the bone, asked:
―And what did you do, John?
―Do! said Mr. Casey. She stuck her ugly old face up at me when she said it and I had my mouth full of tobacco juice. I bent down to her and Phth! says I to her like that.
He turned aside and made the act of spitting.
― Phth! says I to her like that, right into her eye.
He clapped his hand to his eye and gave a hoarse scream of pain.
― O Jesus, Mary and Joseph! says she. I’m blinded! I’m blinded and drownded!
He stopped in a fit of coughing and laughter, repeating:
― I’m blinded entirely.
Mr. Dedalus laughed loudly and lay back in his chair while uncle Charles swayed his head to and