So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business and the old dog smelling him all the time I’m told those Jewies does have a sort of a queer odour coming off them for dogs about I don’t know what all deterrent effect and so forth and so on.

―There’s one thing it hasn’t a deterrent effect on, says Alf.

―What’s that? says Joe.

―The poor bugger’s tool that’s being hanged, says Alf.

―That so? says Joe.

―God’s truth, says Alf. I heard that from the head warder that was in Kilmainham when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible. He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker.