Ulysses: Chapter 16 Eumaeus

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• Author: James Joyce

　

PREPARATORY TO ANYTHING ELSE MR BLOOM BRUSHED OFF THE GREATER bulk of the shavings and

handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan

fashion, which he very badly needed. His (Stephen's) mind was not exactly what you would

call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink

Mr Bloom, in view of the hour it was and there being no pumps of Vartry water available

for their ablutions, let alone drinking purposes, hit upon an expedient by suggesting, off

the reel, the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow

away near Butt Bridge, where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk

and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub. For the nonce he was rather

nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the

subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned. So far

as he could see he was rather pale in the face so that it occurred to him as highly

advisable to get a conveyance of some description which would answer in their then

condition, both of them being e. d. ed, particularly Stephen, always assuming that there

was such a thing to be found. Accordingly, after a few such preliminaries, as, in spite of

his having forgotten to take up his rather soapsuddy handkerchief after it had done yeoman

service in the shaving line, brushing, they both walked together along Beaver street, or,

more properly, lane, as far as the farrier's and the distinctly fetid atmosphere of the

livery stables at the corner of Montgomery street where they made tracks to the left from

thence debouching into Amiens Street round by the corner of Dan Bergin's. But, as he

confidently anticipated, there was not a sign of a Jehu plying for hire anywhere to be

seen except a fourwheeler, probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree, outside

the North Star Hotel and there was no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr

Bloom, who was anything but a professional whistler, endeavoured to hail it by emitting a

kind of a whistle, holding his arms arched over his head, twice.


This was a quandary but, bringing commonsense to bear on it, evidently there was nothing

for it but put a good face on the matter and foot it which they accordingly did. So,

bevelling around by Mullet's and the Signal House, which they shortly reached, they

proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus, Mr Bloom being

handicapped by the circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers had, to vary

the timehonoured adage, gone the way of all buttons, though, entering thoroughly into the

spirit of the thing, he heroically made light of the mischance. So, as neither of them

were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since

it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by

where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey. As it so happened a Dublin

United Tramways Company's sandstrewer happening to be returning the elder man recounted to

his companion

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