To-day we had to have Hamlet’s speech to the players off for Fr. O’Flynn, but I went over it so many times but when I got up to say it, being nervous, I forgot it all, and was disgraced. I can never exert will-power in such a time. I am an awful fool. Fr. O’Flynn is awfully good: nearly every Wednesday, and to-day again, he sends me home in his lovely Dodge saloon. He is great at imitation and took off Doran for me to perfection. – When I came home I had to go to Mr. Fielding with a message. He is going to Dunmanway to Fr. Pat to write the Choral Society letter to the Committee. On the way there I saw poor old Canon Murphy and Fr. Sheehan coming from Bantry in a car. Canon Murphy is doing great work in Bantry. The whole town is being decorated at his request for the Jubilee Procession. – Got my bike back to-day from Willie Groeger to whom I had lent it to go to Fermoy; He bust, but then got mended, the front tyre, and the brake is not acting properly! I am not very pleased about it, but he couldn’t help it. Margherita [the housekeeper] was as cheeky as the dickens to Pappie to-day after breaking a glass dish. – Went to Arthur, who is still in the same condition.
