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[ Aetat. 1-12 ] J O Y C E 39if Reuben J. Dodd had not lent him money, John Joyce would haveborrowed elsewhere, but Dodd was the manifest, if not the basic causeof the poverty which now descended. Besides the £11 a month from hispension, collected punctually each month at David Drimmie and Sons,John Joyce picked up a little money here and there. His calligraphy enabledhim to work occasionally for a solicitor on the quays named Aylward;*he had a random occupation as advertisement canvasser for the7 4Freeman's Journal; and at election times he could always depend uponthe usual small jobs to make him momentarily affluent and, necessarily,drunk.The immediate change that the lack of funds brought about was anothermove, this time to Millbourne Lane in Drumcondra. StanislausJoyce describes this house as 'a small semi-detached villa ... at the footof a low hill' 7 5not far from woods and the river Tolka. Their neighbors,farmhands and navvies, resented the arrival of this family that had knownbetter days. Stanislaus had a fight with one of the local boys, 'Pisser'Duffy, and was amused when his unforgetting brother gave the name ofDuffy to the hero of'A Painful Case,' who in most respects was modeledon Stanislaus. James too had a fight, but not with the local boys. It beganat school, according to A Portrait, when 'Mr Tate' read out a sentencefrom 'Stephen's' weekly theme: 'Here. It's about the Creator and the soul.Rrm . . . rrm . . . Ah! without a possibility of ever approaching nearer.That's heresy.' Joyce, in using the incident in his book, says Stephenmurmured (so that the value of the Church as intercessor might be preserved),'I meant without a possibility of ever reaching.' 76 In real life,Dempsey was appeased in some such manner, but his fellow-students,who had envied Joyce his success at themes, were not. Several of themtook the same route home as he did, and that afternoon, as StanislausJoyce helps to establish, they were quick to seize the advantage offeredthem by Dempsey. They turned the subject to literature, and arguedwhether Marryat was the greatest writer or not. Then Joyce was asked hishis health and wages and got 2s.6d. for saving Dodd, solicitor. It wasn't worth it;was it? Goldin himself did not get thank you. I don't know if the policeman whocame up after it was all over got a certificate and recommended promotion or not.We would like to ask what the local hon. sec. to the Royal Humane Society is doing;Goldin also asks. I hope the readers of this paper will ask. Some lives Goldin saved—J. M'Allister and C. Rielly—died after rescue. P. Ryan, W. Hanly, J. Gorman; thesepersons were all taken to Jervis street and Mercer's Hospital; others rescued takenhome; and last, but least, Dodd, solicitor, for which life Goldin's wife got 2S.6d.Mr. Dodd thinks his son is worth half-a-crown. We wouldn't give that amountfor a whole family of Dodds.Reuben J. Dodd, Jr., who has since died, sued the B.B.C. for libel when Joyce's referencesto him in the Hades episode of Ulysses were read on the air; he contended that hehad jumped into the Liffey 'after my hat.' 73Aylward's office is probably that described in 'Counterparts,' where his name is changedto Alleyne for reasons explained on p. 16.