Got a terrible fright last evening when I remembered that I forgot to turn off the petrol in the motor-bike yesterday, but it must have been alright, because Fr. Duggan didn’t say anything to-day. The petrol-lever must have been closed. – Yesterday I saw in paper that an Englishman named Parr lies buried in Westminster Abbey who lived to 155 years! He boxed at 120, and married a 3rd time at 135. The king visited him, and after sent him a ‘luxurious’ meal, but after it Parr was found dead. – Worked well in school to-day. Found in the music-room a huge atlas, in which I read some interesting accounts of the Empire of Annan. Scannie asked me whether I was looking forward to hols. on Saturday, as non-exam. fellows are then going home, but I told him I’d prefer to stay with my class until the matric exam. – In reading Mozart again to-day I came across the Sonata I played in public at one of Mám’s pupils’ recitals long ago.– Shivers! ((It was at a Tilly Fleischmann School of Music pupils’ concert on 11 Feb. 1923, when Master Aloys Fleischmann opened the recital with the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, K.283. He was 12 years old.)) – Zaghlul Pasha got an overwhelming majority at the elections recently for the Nationalist Party, but he’s a ‘cute bucko’. A fellow friendly to the English is being make premier, but he is a tool of Zaghlul’s who will direct all the moves from behind his cage of retirement. The English actually were going to send warships from Malta, but didn’t then.
