quite sure which country it is.

Is he a jew or a gentile or a holy Roman or a swaddler or what the hell is he?

says Ned. Or who is he? No offence, Crofton.

Who is Junius? says J. J.

We don’t want him, says Crofter the Orangeman or presbyterian.

He’s a perverted jew, says Martin, from a place in Hungary and it was he drew up all the plans according to the Hungarian system. We know that in the castle.

Isn’t he a cousin of Bloom the dentist? says Jack Power.

Not at all, says Martin. Only namesakes. His name was Virag, the father’s name that poisoned himself. He changed it by deedpoll, the father did.