Dr. Scannell told me several interesting things to-day, amongst them being that Pius X, fearful of having it said that his family – village postmen – benefited from his rising to the Papacy, gave only a little cottage to his sisters in Rome, and that only because in the village they lived in they were pestered by Yank sight-seers! Hip! Hip! I can do Matric and also Honan Scholarship exams by L.C.H. I was never lucky, but I might as well make a shot for the latter. Perhaps I will include music as a subject and so add a possible 200! Went to Nannie and took away a pair of Mám’s shoes by mistake! Markie came to get stamps sorted. I invited him for Friday next. He’s a dear old fellow. – Sometimes so many things happen in a day of my life that I get quite confused. I have far too much to do, to see, to hear and read, and often get done in a day what would ordinarily take 3 to get through.
