CIRCE
"(George S Mesias, Bloom's tailor, appears, a tailor's goose under his arm, presenting a bill.)
MESIAS
To alteration one pair trousers eleven shillings.
BLOOM
(Rubs his hands cheerfully.) Just like old times. Poor Bloom!
(Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded Iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory.)
REUBEN J
(whispers hoarsely) The squeak is out. A split is gone for the flatties. Nip the first rattler."
(U15.1908)
