Got over my ´flu providentially, and came to school only to find Dr. Scannell and 40 of the boys laid up with it. So work was deplorably slack during the week. Unfortunately the scare is over and everything is normal again. Got notice that music exam. is March 22nd in Rochelle School. Me miserum! [Woe is me] But I must ‘screw my courage to the sticking point’ ((Lady Macbeth: ´But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we´ll not fail` Macbeth Act 1, Sc. 7)). Am training like a professional boxer. How I delight in thinking of the summer hols. when I will be exam-free and care-free! Went to Horgans´ for dinner to-day. The house is full of interest, rich in books and pictures and things of art. Enjoyed a quiet rummage. Everything is lonely without Ivor and Joe. Mr. Horgan is a relic of the volunteer-days, and though an up-to-date business-man, he has got a good deal of old-world culture about him. He is one of the best-read men in Cork. Got ‘Bartlett’s Quotations’ off him. It will be useful to the highest degree for comps [compositions].
