After work to-day I went at the garden. It is in a bad state. Had to go to the Honan Home, because I forgot my bike yesterday when we went to the pictures. Betty tried to keep me for tea, but I wouldn’t. On the way back I got a bad puncture on Wellington Rd. More work! Went at garden again. At the rate I am going it will take a week to finish both back and front. Aunt Elsa came up with Pattie to see Mám. Went to Mr. Fielding about the Choral Society, but, of course, he forgot all about the appointment, so I will have to telephone to-morrow from Horgans’. At present I am reading and finishing ‘Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts’ and towards the end a group of wandering German students come into the story. They have some very good Latin proverbs amongst them being ‘Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi’ [what the gods are permitted is not permitted to oxen], and ‘clericus clericam non decimat’ [a clergyman does not attack another clergymen] I am reading ‘Europe of to-day’ also, or rather, studying it, and I have still to read ‘The 30 Years War’, ‘Outlines of European History’ (Grant’s) and ‘Makers of Music’ – all from Dr. Scannell. I doubt if I will get through them all.
