Who is the long fellow running for the mayoralty, Alf? says Joe.

Friend of yours, says Alf.

Nannan? says Joe. The mimber?

I won’t mention any names, says Alf.

I thought so, says Joe. I saw him up at that meeting now with William Field, M. P., the cattle traders.

Hairy Iopas, says the citizen, that exploded volcano, the darling of all countries and the idol of his own.

So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.