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Updated: June 22, 2025
Now thoughts were hot in him, and the art lay in finding words which would blister and scorch. Time after time he tore up a page of bombast or erased ridiculous flamboyancies. Late at night, with a burning head and ice-cold feet, he made his last copy, folded it up, and, distrusting the cooler criticism of the morning, went out and posted it to the Croppy.
He shut his eyes, dreading lest he should be forced to look, but the suggestion was too brutal even for Captain Twinely. "Shut your devil's mouth," he said to the sergeant, "isn't what you've done enough for you? If the croppy that came on you at Donegore had broken your skull, instead of just cracking it, he would have rid the country of the biggest blackguard in it."
As they made their way through the paved area leading out to the side street, where a carriage was awaiting them, a sturdy, roughly clad fellow in a red wig and croppy beard suddenly slouched out of a gloomy corner near the stage stairway and followed them, with movements as stealthy and silent as those of a cat.
Great voice Richie Goulding said, a flush struggling in his pale, to Bloom soon old. But when was young? Ireland comes now. My country above the king. She listens. Who fears to speak of nineteen four? Time to be shoving. Looked enough. Bless me, father, Dollard the croppy cried. Bless me and let me go. Tap. Bloom looked, unblessed to go. Got up to kill: on eighteen bob a week.
'Eighteen-and-six first class, and a few shillings for a cab. 'I can manage that; but I'll go and fetch you the papers, there's time enough to talk of the journey. The newsman had just deposited the Croppy on the table as Joe returned to the breakfast-table, and the story of Kilgobbin headed the first column in large capitals.
The rising Stubbses and Muggses have heads shaped like a China orange, croppy hair, chubby chins, chubby cheeks, and blazing red and chubby noses short, pursy, apoplectic necks, like their fathers squab, four-square figures, mounted upon turned legs, with measly skins; so that, taken altogether, they are exceedingly offensive and disagreeable.
Having been taken out of the shafts on the road above the river, he had with his harness on his back, like Horatius, unhesitatingly lumbered over a respectable bank and ditch in the wake of Croppy, who had preceded him with the reins. He was now grazing luxuriously along the river's edge, while his driver smoked, no less luxuriously, in the background. "Will I carry the box for ye, Miss?"
'There's one paper in Ireland, anyhow, he said, 'which is not afraid of your wife nor your Archbishop. I'll write to the Croppy, and you'll see if they won't publish the facts. Mr. Dowling grinned. 'I don't care if they do, he said. 'The priests are dead against the Croppy, and there's hardly a man in the town reads it. Go up there now to Hely's and try if you can buy a copy.
The black horse was not absolutely running away, but he was obviously alarmed, and with the long hill before him anything might happen. "They're dead! They're dead!" said Croppy, with philosophic calm; "'twas the parasol started him." As he spoke, the black horse stumbled, the laden car ran on top of him like a landslip, and, with an abortive flounder, he collapsed beneath it.
'Faith, sir, said a shopkeeper who kept a few blankets and tweeds among his flour-sacks and porter-barrels, 'since you were talking to the boys last month, I couldn't induce one of them to take the foreign stuff if I was to offer him a shilling along with it. When he returned to Ballymoy after his interview with Mr. Dowling, Hyacinth set himself to fulfil his threat of writing to the Croppy.
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