But Edy got as cross as two sticks
Twelfth cast. Page 290, line 264.
But Edy got as cross as two sticks about him getting his own way like that from everyone always petting him.
—I’d like to give him something, she said, so I would, where I won’t say.
—On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.
Episode13. The beach at Sandymount. Three little girls are babysitting a child.
Edy Boardman has her baby in a carriage. Cissy Caffrey brings her twin brothers, Tommy and Jacky. Edy is angry because Tommy wants the baby's ball.
The word "but" is appropriate for the style of popular novel.
The phrase "as cross as two sticks" is a play on the two senses of cross, ‘bad-tempered’ and ‘intersecting’.
Cissy avoided saying “bottom” and rephrase it as B-O-T-Tom.
Joyce explained that the four words (1) because, (2) bottom, (3) woman, and (4) yes represent the four cardinal points of womanhood, and he used them a lot in Episode 18. (Letter to Frank Budgen, 16 August, 1921) Many "because" are used also in Episode 13.
Sandymount
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