The school seemed deserted to-day because all the lower classes, who have no exams, went home on Sat. Scannie seems in great humour. He told us at English an extraordinary story how a certain Detective MacNamara on Sat. asked leave from him to search the grounds, which he of course had to give. After, on looking out a top window, he saw the detective crouching under the wall of the Lower Field scribbling in a note-book. Then suddenly he took off his coat, whipped out a revolver, sprang up on the wall, and shouted ‘Hands up!’ And Scannie could see four pairs of hands over the wall. The detective so caught them drilling with a revolver and ammunition each. We met in ‘Macbeth’ ‘hell’s kites’ and Scannie told us that in Calcutta the Parsees ((The Parsees are Zoroastrians who fled to India from Iran in the 10th century to avoid having to convert to Islam after the conquest of Iran by invading Muslims.)) have a temple on top of a hill on the roof of which they lay their dead. There is always a cloud of vultures over the place who carry off the bodies, and often it happens that polluted limbs fall from their beaks into the crowded thoroughfares of the town. – Had great talks with Fr. Pat at dinner. Aunt Elsa and Patty and Mrs. Stockley came with flowers to see Mám, who is now alright again. I worked well to-day. – For the past few months my voice has been breaking. I suppose it will be gone in another 6. See that the Agha Khan, a Persian, has given a prize for the Dublin horse show. Mám says he was often in Ireland.
