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1. Telemachus

I say, Mulligan, you do make strong tea, don’t you?

Buck Mulligan, hewing thick slices from the loaf said in an old woman’s wheedling voice:

―When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

―By Jove, it is tea, Haines said.

Buck Mulligan went on hewing and wheedling:

― So I do, Mrs Cahill, says she. Begob, ma’am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don’t make them in the one pot.

He lunged towards his messmates in turn a thick slice of bread, impaled on his knife.

―That’s folk, he said very earnestly, for

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