5th Sunday of Holy Communion. As we get no ex. during the exams, I finished early. Wrote a letter to Julia, thanking her for sending away to Belgium for stamps. She has actually come to an agreement with a priest in Liège College that for every 600 stamps she sends him, she will get about 70 good ones in return. – After dinner, Markie came, and we fixed up a windmill with meccano, shot with the air-gun, and did gymnastics on the trapeze. He is a good simple fellow, and we have great fun together. Went to Mr. Corkery’s, where we heard the whole of Strauss’ ‘Ein Heldenleben’. It is a beautiful work, and gives great atmosphere, but is really modern. I played one of Chopin’s Mazurkas for them and the little Prelude ((The Prelude for voice and piano is Fleischmann’s earliest surviving composition. At the end of the score, in pencil, a first draft is to be seen of his Cradle Song, a piece completed around three years later with words by his friend Edward Sheehy.)) I composed during the Xmas hols. The piano is very difficult to play on. Mangans have got a five-valve wireless.
