Made a good general Confession to-day and attended Retreat well. Col. Brase was there to-day, and when I came home at 7 from Retreat, Mammie and Páp and he had gone to Horgans’ for supper. – We up at Farran Ferris are very conservative in keeping up old customs, and immediately the last lecture has been delivered, and we dayboys have got coats on, we all have a mad rush for the gates at the end of the avenue, in order to see who will be the first to speak. For we are not allowed speak within school grounds. – Wrote a long letter to Fräulein Engelmann thanking her for her letter and Saor-stamps. Finished ‘My New Curate’. I enjoyed it immensely. I found it a simple, absorbing, lovable book, and from it have understood the Irish peasant-folk, and the daily life of the pathetic old country parish priest a thousand times better than I did before.
