More complications to-day. Found our from Dr. Scannell that Matric authors and L.C.H. course are widely different. In English Matric: – Macbeth, Julius Caesar, poems of Goldsmith, Ruskin. L.C.H.: – Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Pritchard’s Essays, Palgrove’s Golden Treasury. So I can’t possibly do both. Me miserum that I didn’t do Matric with the other fellows. But Dr. Scannell suggested by doing L.C.H. (I am not doing maths) and then doing Matric maths alone in order to take out Matric certificate. So he will have the news to-morrow. Worked hard. Had to go to town with Fr. Pat to mind his car while he was getting a clip [haircut]. Had a piano-lesson and was not too bad. So, Deo volente, I will get on in my profession, for certainly I will work like a nigger if necessary. The only question is, is like talent forthcoming???
