in the train by tipping the guard well O I suppose there’ll be the usual idiots
of men gaping at us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be that
was an exceptional man that common workman that left us alone in the
carriage that day going to Howth Id like to find out something about him
1 or 2 tunnels perhaps then you have to look out of the window all the
nicer then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say
eloped with him that gets you on on the stage the last concert I sang at
where its over a year ago when was it St Teresas hall Clarendon St little
chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like on
account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded
beggar and wearing a brooch for lord Roberts when I had the map of it
all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt
put it past him like he got me on to sing in the Stabat Mater by going
around saying he was putting Lead Kindly Light to music I put him up
to that till the jesuits found out he was a freemason thumping the piano lead
Thou me on copied from some old opera yes and he was going about with some
of them Sinner Fein lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual
trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is
very intelligent the coming man Griffith is he well he doesnt look it thats all
I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the
mention of politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein
where Gardner Lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever
he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he
was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal
lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be
seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they
could have made their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of
the old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for
years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even
decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in
review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after
looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies
or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time
at the march past the ioth hussars the prince of Wales own or the
lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his
father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he
could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve
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