Quotation from: Ulysses

Written by: James Joyce


A BIDDER: A florin.


(DILLON'S LACQUEY RINGS HIS HANDBELL.)


THE LACQUEY: Barang!


A VOICE: One and eightpence too much.


CHARLES ALBERTA MARSH: Must be virgin. Good breath. Clean.


BELLO: (GIVES A RAP WITH HIS GAVEL) Two bar. Rockbottom figure and cheap
at the price. Fourteen hands high. Touch and examine his points. Handle
him. This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If I had
only my gold piercer here! And quite easy to milk. Three newlaid gallons
a day. A pure stockgetter, due to lay within the hour. His sire's milk
record was a thousand gallons of whole milk in forty weeks. Whoa my
jewel! Beg up! Whoa! (HE BRANDS HIS INITIAL C ON BLOOM'S CROUP) So!
Warranted Cohen! What advance on two bob, gentlemen?

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