Cross Bulletin September 1915

--- Page 1 --- No. 5 . September 1915 . vol VI . ( Kaulbach . " AND THY OWN SOUL. A SWORD SHALL PIERCE . " - Luke September , 1915 . --- Page 2 --- rates with a sentence of two months' imprisonment , while Germans : they are , we must suppose , straining on the leash party to be punished were let off by the police court magis- stones two or three defenceless Christian Brothers whom they in the principal English Catholic weekly newspapers . Yet their work , set upon and brutally attacked with sticks and gaul for periods of from three to six months for the crime of order " as represented by these Orange barbarians , are appa- North by calling to their aid the exponents of " kultur " and in Flanders and Gallipoli . It must be a consolation to those past twelve months foolish boys and girls have been sent to scrap of paper " is of more value than the life of a Chris- tion Brother . In the circumstances it is hardly to be won- who are interested in those gallant would-be saviours of their One incident which shows this has hardly received the public- game was well worth the candle , and we should not be sur- quite a crop of similar " dashedly outrages . " During the think at least it is worthy of mention here , the war : " May the merciful Jesus , through the intercession saturated with blood . " Even the officer in command of the frightfulness . ' If the choice really lay between the two , dered at that a certain minority of persons in Ireland seeing ret for this disorderly outrage the only two of the attacking soldiers described the attack as a " dastardly outrage . " and sidered in accordance with the fitness of things that a prayer of the Holy Father in his moving appeal to the belli- surely it was worth a paragraph among the war news . We one fine evening . hilariously causing the Pope according to few would hesitate which to choose . their fine fighting spirit has found an appropriate outlet . and there are few Catholics in the world , whatever war their has ignored it , and we looked in vain for any reference to it of them was badly injured about the head and his clothing great nations issued on the anniversary of the outbreak of emulating the example of their Catholic fellow-countrymen year's training . Still they have not been sent to face the the favour constantly extended to the forces of " law and prised if the element treatment accorded them resulted in have no doubt these bold knight-errants thought that the rently inclined to emulate the recent example of the local city it deserves : the non-Catholic daily and weekly press enlist for a real war , have had the advantage of an additional Less than a month ago two dozen or so of the heroes of September is the month dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows . his famous Ulster Division returning to camp at Ballycastle sympathies lie , who will not echo with all their hearts the rette cross . fearing a corner off a recruiting poster . It is probably , con- all the time , and bewailing the hard fate that hinders their country to know that they are not losing their time , and tha met by the way : attacked them with such barbarity that on a third escaped punishment by paving a fine of Er. W. 178 --- Page 3 --- tick of the clock above the chimney and the occasional sub- sidence of the embers in the grate became after a while so thin wrinkled hand lying on the coverlet near him . It was or the suggestiveness of the books in the room below which jerked him suddenly into wakefulness and he became aware thin and quavering , but the tenacity of purpose which Father from the opposite wall seemed to dominate the apartment , made him see precision , directness and tenacity of purpose that the old man had awakened too and was watching him the hand of an old man , and the priest asked himself whether was drawn back from her tired , anxious face and her thin outside could hardly be heard through the heavy protecting lay across the face and he began to make conjectures from the bed . ' In the dim shaded light he could faintly see the dark it was the heavy remembrance of a long-ago study of palmistry other ; the huge heavily-curtained " four-poster , standing out much-there is the bell if you should want to call before I curtain , and the faint breathing of the old man , the tick-tick- black dress came out from beyond it . Her scanty grey hair open palm . to their specific influence . A violent nod of the head come back . He may wake any instant , he never sleeps for She went quietly out and the priest sat down beside the The priest was at once alert . hands clasped and unclasped nervously . promise to send for you . ' The answering voice from the shadow of the bed was very It was very still ; the rain and wind driving and slashing their owner's wishes . The room he was shown into was large and sombre as the apparent in the deliberation with which the faint tones stated leave you with him alone . ' is asleep : but he may wake any moment . He wished me to form lying among the pillows , but the shadow of the curtain in the bent fingers and honesty and kindness in the wrinkled , " It is good of you to come , " she whispered , " my brother Quite right , " he said . Father Carey nodded . for me a while ago . ' " then Carey nodded again . and he was almost startled as a little figure of a woman in a " Only since yesterday - he had a seizure . Thank you so long . understand ... ... but he seemed so anxious , I had to Carev . " from St. Thomas . ' Your messenger came will stay with him now if you " You asked to see me . I think . " he said . " I am Father monotonous that he found himself gradually succumbing like . " You look very tired came into her eyes . " No , " she said , " that's why I can't Carey had thought to destroy in the hand was none the les " he asked . The little old lady shook her head and a bewildered look THE WISDON OF Commons The little old lady Catholic ? " he asked . in beyond the curtain which his thin hand now held back . came into her eyes . " Is he a Catholic ? " he a has he been ill long ? " c ? " he asked . she said , " that's why I can't 181 . --- Page 4 --- various other undesirable qualifications , the number of which to think so , however , for , when he had readjusted his hat reside its fellow , was the only thing which made information conversation elicited the fact that Polly had " always had ' appeared to come off second best . He himself did not seem among them all was one which a glance at her wizened little gressed very well indeed , and she came into Victoria Street rutch which , because of the newveless foot trailing lifestyle never been used to anything else . Polly's grant little form pro- gentleman with whom she collided at the corner' certainly Berry , D.Sc. , sat up in bed and looked straight before him : with such velocity that , ' to the onlooker at least , the old incertain race , but she herself seemed rather proud of . And Redeemer . I believe all the Catholic Church teaches And then he lay back and died . Don't know . " she answered rather astonished ( no one still shining on his brow . Professor George H. Spencer Always had it , " she volunteered after a pause . Further re probably saw beyond the bust of Haeckel which stood directly in his line of vision . surprising that is , when you took into consideration the half defiant . before him . His face assumed an expression of 1 Packer's " Lane ever evinced any interest in the church ) . the deepest contribution . may not see the dawn . What o'clock is it now ? ' No . " said Polly ambiguously . A little past midnight . ' . to be received . ' I think that is right , is it not ? ' Vitam sane termino , " he said distinctly , " Nobis donet in Patria . ' mother might have regarded as so many obstacles in life's and his glasses and be held Polly standing , half scared and How is it you have a crunch ? ' Polly Smith came down Packer's Lane at a surprising rate , " Very good . ' Then please begin at once . ' to be baptised . ' I think that is sufficient ? ' what I must do . I believe in God , I believe in Christ the There is not much time , " persisted the old voice . My dear child , " he said with concern , But tell me , are you sure you're not hurt ? " 1961 62m. and I wish Ah , well now , that's all right . Thank you : yes . I asked for a priest . I wish to be ... ... A very little while later , when the baptismal waters were Why , your're Ah ... ... well , you see I may not delay . at any speed at all possible . But perhaps because she had ( I have read a great deal about it lately ) ... and I wish Quite sufficient ... . But you'll rou ? ' How very careless of me , to be sure . have I hurt . no more than a shrimp . " Quite right , " said the priest briskly . " Have you - " ( i. ) . ( I have read a great deal about it lately ) ... Quite right . " said the priest briskly . " " He to more than a shrimp . ... I might have ... ... might have " You're not ? might have ... ... I know . You're not ? ... . Oh , well now , that's all right ... ' You're not ? ! ... At --- Page 5 --- was no doubt very beautiful but none the less pathetic to childlike laughter bubbling from her rosy lips . " ... It study behind him , bases all failed a taxi and went back to write many pages about a myth again , had his principles only been in force in the previous his hopes for the future on the problematical acceptance where Polly for instance would play happily , running about that the crippled child might very reasonably prefer her own people looked for the righting of all the wrongs of this ; a life which one day would come true for ever . and the Professor experience and 40 of different which may benefit the rest of THE WILDON OF BABES . of Faith , bases her hope for where , there sprang into the Professor's mind the objection with this fond hope of a future eternity of perfection , while but rightly understood ... " that child for instance here at hand lay the present certainly for them to make into Berry who , with 78 years of by the world of a doctrine something like this : wunderful . foolish hope ! Of course it was to that life these asset but a ro-year old gift for ever on two sound legs , with clear vision in her eyes and will last for Eternity ... ... idol or a dissipated dream of the beautiful ? happy to run the course of her span of life in the complete But that night he set himself a strange problem which was because her clothes had to be dried ) and to dream of Ideas the future on an Ideal which Polly Smith , who , with no Humanity for Time ... ... Polly herself would probably have been unable to express satisfaction of " men's sane in corpore sano . ' How much happier would the world be , he reflected , if it know how many people created themselves into happiness . Lucy M. Curd . the great realisation of the longings of their hearts . re thought had it occurred to her , but suddenly , from some- limited " span " of satisfaction accorded her by a passing music and incense ) but who was the happier for a shattered After all , ideals were intangible enough sometimes Professor George H. Spencer But now you know the result of his solution . world . ... at least they had as much power as lights and hope of a perfect " Vitamin side termino : ... " to the generation , would now be a healthy , useful member of society , Polly went home in the drenching rain to go to bed and Find the equation between : Life without end . ... ... . " he said to himself . What a he hoped would be true in a hundred years' time . " ... Life without end . 185 . --- Page 6 --- of the individual , but of the community too , ' However and Harby , near Lincoln , to the Abbey of Westminster ) of his a mystical sense , the Tree of Life . The energies , not only of Christ , could not have been far absent from the minds of indeed , commemorate some now forgotten quarrel and recon- faces , and two hands joined in a friendly clasp , illustrates and the appropriate prayers recited . These well-known marking each halting-place in the long funeral-iourney ( from well-loved wife . Eleanor of Castile , with a costly decorated near the church of Kilnabov . on which are carved two human shine forth " in the daily life of medieval Christendom . The yet born . And so the Root became in a practical as well as those relations in a simple and vivid fashion . The cross may cross-road dances , and the like . At any rate , it is significant the intimacy that casts out fear . ' The ancient boundary cross . friendship between God and man , obtained through the death to remember that the severe parish-cross was deliberately road , in the shadow of which the sad camp could be made , those who set it up , and chose to make it a confidant , and a fruited from it . It was the natural centre of social birth , and " O Crux , splendididior cunctis astris ! ' fashioned as a witness of these communal merrymaking ; and departure and return ; and a sanctuary for , outcasts and business transactions , and love-making , and all the chief like of English kings looked for comfort , in his hour of grief : wisdom that was to see folly in the Cross of Christ was not ravity and chastity of the Irish soul existing eternally austerity , an Irish historian has well said that it is a simple Brighter , indeed , than all the stars did the Holy Road beneath the gaiety and apparent license of revels and wakes . symbol of Christianity and eternity , without attempt at ciliation of two neighbours : but the deeper thought of the element . In Catholic England , the same assurance of the sympathy Perhaps it may also symbolize for some of us the essential means of recording their personal experience . the Middle Ages are notable for their loving familiarity : for But , in due time , the Church passed out of the Valley of affairs of existence . Of the typical Irish cross , with its massive plainness and Every parish had , at least , one Cross-prominent enough the Shadow . The cause of Christ became the popular cause ; The relations between the Holy Root and the daily life of fugitives . to be used as a land-mark and a rallying point ; a place of and the Sign of Salvation was glorified on Kings' hammers . hat its presence was not felt as a rebuke , or a discordant called to suffer with Him : to drink His cup , and to be , like Him , obedient to a death of shame . old shame and shrinking were entirely gone ; and the new of the Holy Root meets us at every turn . elaboration . The Holy ROOD in Daily life . " It was to the Cross that one of the fiercest and a 1961 1962 ans of recording their personal experience . --- Page 7 --- his good health or fortune a practice the supposed ill-luck and to reveal himself to those who worshipped Him in ignor- say ( perhaps , with a shamefaced " laugh ! ) as they suit the warning to " touch wood . " given to one who has bragged of the same time as another person , may be often heard to a flower , an animal , etc. Familiar examples of this are the realing to flow from his dust-soiled homespun garment's hem popular reverence for the " passion-flower , " and for the cross- sotion to the word : " We don't want to quarrel ! . Let us of the washing-basin is of ill open , popularly believed to be ike markings on the back of the humble beast of burden tinues . ' In other words , he has taken sanctuary - as the fugi- elves , may not such survival be ground for practical home ? periods of unconsciousness , unsleeping and unforgetting , and subliminal or sub-conscious self , which remains , in the longest help us to realise the sub-conscious hold on Catholic Truth . in doing so is safe from capture so long as the contact con- make the sign of the cross over the water ! ' For this sharing that exists in apparently unbelieving minds : and to pray . with survived the withdrawal of conscious faith . And far out- some of these childish fancies may seem unworthy enough have occasion to wash their hands in the same basin , and , at five criminal of old was want to take it - by some wayside or formed the Cross-might be thought to avert . which carried Our Lord into Jerusalem . Of particular interest is the quaint tribute paid , by many Another homely triumph of the Cross is the instinctive re- Southern peasantry , to the cruciform seed-vessels " of the even find matter of offence in them . But He who permitted their great theme . A scrupulous and formal reverence may strife , the Healer of strife must be invoked between . ance , may value even the unconscious reverence that has stout Protestant , to the Cross as peace-maker . Those who A right interpretation of certain trifles light as air might Of similar import is the touching of a wooden object in Not quite so generally known is the honour paid , by the marks of the ancestral Faith : crossing the toe to cure cramp , Aamed eyelid , and many another . to the cutting of this fruit with a knife . touch of the True Cross fingers partially enough in the churchyard cross . ognition of its accidental likeness in some characteristic of increased faith and confidence , for the universal triumph of the Cross . to the cutting of this fruit with a knife . The Holy Rood in Daily life . the children's game of " catch . " The blaver who succeeds There are little homely charms , too , which are as tide- G. M. Horr. A forerunner of bad blood ; and so , to exercise the spirit of s , often , the truest index to our thoughts and wishes . We have all learned to talk a good deal lately about the panana . In the Canary Islands there is a popular aversion making the sign of the cross with a wedding-ring on an in- The memory of the healing and safety to be found in the of which contact with the Cross - or with the material that Aamed eyelid , and many another . which carried Our Lord into Jerusalem . 189 lot quite so generally known is the hon --- Page 8 --- the invasion of Belgium , and later on against the wanton its Supreme Pontiff . Austria is predominantly Catholic-its these inspired Protestant journalists goes so far as to say that tion to lecture and " advise the Sovereign Pontiff on what they The Pope and the War . But when they proceed to lay down the law , and dogmatically in particular why the Pope did not publicly protest against and saw . But those who adversely criticise the policy of the of so many churches and cathedrals , and all the ghastly bar- prejudice and animosity against the Papacy and the Catholic the same far-seeing critics that Benedict XV. is secretly pro- sinking of the Lusitanna ? Why has he not raised his voice his always maintained friendly and double relations with conceive to be his plain duty in this regard . We are asked hopes for the restoration of the Temporal Power . One of re sought a reply ; appearances were against it , but he went nation to him , and so on . Now we are gravely assured by he attitude of the belligerent Powers towards the Church and tion is nothing more than an expression of the old undying German . that his object is political arrandizement - that of being inspired by a heretic government for its own parti- ciple : Nothing of good can come out of Rome . nations , it is difficult to see how any fair-minded person could answer to their perplexities , one could sympathize with them . the Pope's recent appeal for peace " is gravevously suspected tics of a certain type who proceed with impertinent presump- alleged " silence , " we naturally suspect that the whole agita- press in these countries , and has given offence to some Catholic- reasonably complain . if he carefully considers and contrasts cular ends . " Obviously the writer detects the spirit of against the murder of so many Belgian priests , the destruction It has been so all along . The late Holy Father , Puis X , has awakened much bitterness in the Protestant and irreligious enemy of Culture : modern thought and progress were abomi- thing of good come out of Nazareth ? His mind was open , If those who ask these questions sought in good faith an barities enacted by the ruthless German soldiery : through the success of the German and Austrian arms he and officially denounced the barbarous methods of the latter , taken sides with the Allied nations against Germany , aged Emperor is the chief Catholic sovereign in Europe . and Nietzsche in the letter of the Pope , and the German eagle all as to the soundness of their own unassailable first prin- as ridiculed as intransigent and reactionary : the determined But even were the Pope's sympathies against the Allied " HE fact that the Pope has not openly and avowedly surmounting the tara ! assert various unworthy reasons and motives for the Pope's Church . The Israelite without quite once asked : Can any- Pope have no doubt at all as its motives . and no doubt at 1961 62m. 190 191 . --- Page 9 --- the Pope-the supreme moral power in the world-remained surprising nor unreasonable had the Sovereign Pontiff mani- protest against that doctrine . ' Benedict XV has done so : Law which expressly forbids Catholic priests to act as soldiers . his condemnation of the German doctrine of the power of the failed Catholic Belgium and Catholic France , and implicitly tion to the Pope and the Church - and the diplomatic relations expressly declares that he has already condemned the violation with the Roman See have been invariably harmonious , and she of the two most famous living literary men of France , Holy See , but was glad enough when hostilities broke out to sented that in the face of a glaring act of paluable injustice . is now clear from a letter written to the Belgian Minister at the Vatican by the Cardinal Secretary of State , in which the Pope Catholic subjects . It would not therefore naturally have been the Catholic Church , and has generally been suspicious of her even now it has defied the venerable provision of the Canon It is a full reply to those who denounced the Pope as in- demned " all injustice , whatever its motive . " It was repre- peace and the separation come to be treated by the Powers . influential of all Empires . " But not even the most inveterate Orders and sought to enable the bishops and clergy . and different and neutral in the face of injustice , and as lax in The whole rock of offence to the eyes of the purblind and rations contrasts " very unfavourably . The French Govern- enemy of the Holy See can point to a single act of Bene- as to its immediate consequences , or as to its effect when the Proud Protestant England has until very recently ignored the due to his August position as Chief of the greatest and most the head of any neutral State who has had the courage to Church : in its irreligious frenzy it proscribed the religious sented at the Vatican . Russia has not at all been friendly to police and friendly relationship the attitude of the Allied writes as follows : " This is an event of importance , whether is significant . So far from such being the case , the contrary tested his sympathies with the two empires whose relations of the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain has said , ' Show me State . It is also a great solitary act . For , as the President worked out satisfactorily and advantageously . With this named Germany , when on the 22nd of last January he con- quiescent and indifferent . Therefore it was argued the Pope has by Germany of the neutrality of Belgium . M. Rene Bazin , stating this fact and commenting upon it in the Echo de Paris , dict XV , which could possibly be construed into an expression between the Church and the two empires have , on the whole , of sympathy or partisanship with the Dual Alliance . declared himself on the side of their enemy . At least his silence number the Catholics , shows marked respect and considera- prejudiced enemies of the Holy See , is that the Pope has not whose rulers have treated him with the courtesy and respect swallow her pride , and recognise her necessity of being repre- the cross . the Holy See . Germany , too , although the Lutherans out- ment has been notoriously hostile to the Holy See and to the 1925 --- Page 10 --- support . The Pope has , as he pathetically writes . " innumerable- which still remains to unite the Catholic peoples of every though in normal times it would be received with respect and other reasons he is confident that every thinking man will readily admit that " it would be neither " proper nor useful to would undoubtedly beget violent religious differences in every which makes them brothers . " He must " embrace all com- sented and believed that the rebuke or condemnation had cunning diplomacy of a rival Power . It would widen the look up to their common Father for protection , guidance and proceeded from false or exaggerated information , or the more belligerents . " The Pope cannot declare himself a partisan breach between the nations by destroying the one great hand in the meantime he has succeeded in ameliorating some of the At the same time his impartiality is by no means indifference . high , and a rebuke addressed by the Pope to any nation , even by the Allies , and there is hardly any doubt that such allega- docility , would now be bitterly resorted . It would be repre- ration without giving offence to the whole Church . We know that at present when the nations are involved in of the Church whatever be their nationality have a right to have an equal solicitude . " He must consider " not the special batants in the same sentiment of charity . " and for these and imply justify that strict impartiality which Benedict XV on perseveringly to hasten the end of this terrible calamity . and universal Church makes it imperative on him to observe the Pope was that which he followed when he condemned and of any nation , he cannot publicly support the cause of his own entangle the Pontificial Authority in the disputes between the declored all such outrages by whomsoever committed . No. a struggle for life or death , the tide of patriotic passion runs for in every possible way through public appeal , and the ordi- would be disastrous , for dividing the Church into parties , it authority could with justice do more until specific charges had interests which divide them . but the common bond of faith nary diplomatic methods , he has laboured consistently and able sons on both belligerent sides for whose salvation he must or empire . " It knows no distinction of race . The members Besides this the Pope's high position as Chief Pastor of the intricate and awful crisis in which all Europe was involved , eterate than the political discussions that have brought about it , as has been alleged , outrages have also been perpetrated country and foment angry passions more implacable and in- nationality in the one great society of the Church . Its effect his' accession to the Papal Chair decided to maintain in the tions have been made at Rome , the only course open to the the present fearful war . been submitted to its consideration and the evidence for and Power in the world as if she had been actually named : but Such considerations , which readily suggest themselves , against been carefully sifted and balanced . THE CROSS . strictest impartiality . The Church is wider than any nation 194- 194 . --- Page 11 --- police , servants of the High-priest , and onlookers who , master . IV. The Courtyard . whether slave or servant . " Safely within the palace precincts they parted . John wishing to make his way into the audience- As they passed through the inner door the portress , either a here of denying his Master ; he merely wished to save himself nature of this acquaintance is still a puzzle to historians both now kept near Him , drawn by some vague hope of bring- which the principal apartments were reached . St. John entered Master with a devotedness above that of their companions , over his words would be heard by John , yet Peter as he pushed Nhe wake of the procession of . Temple-guards , Sanhedrin Hixa-priest and consequently to the servants , though index street and a vestibule , the other ostium and its keeper ostiarius the palace of Caiphas , there followed at a little distance the annoyance of being repulsed , and this by a young woman , him , and asked him , " Art thou also one of this man's dis- les ? " The " also " seems to show that she already knew timidity . or restrained by others . he " remained without . " courtyard without challenge , for he was known to the Him help . ' The entrance to the palace was through two tale slave , or a servant-girl , noticed Peter , looked hard at o on His apprehension had had in different directions , and ween this vestibule and the atrium , or courtyard , from answered . " I am not . " He had probably no intention ustles Simon Peter and John . These had clung to their John was , and consequently there was nothing to fear , more- St. John finding himself alone returned for his companion ors , one called janna and its keeper janitor between the ' But St. Peter was less fortunate : whether through his own all to see for himself what was happening to his Divi actly after midnight , conducted or followed our Lord into 196 . --- Page 12 --- and thought how he slept while his Master sorrowed at Geth- spokesman of the trusting few at the promise of the ' Eucharist ; Hute and keen on which the ruler's daughter heard from far off a fisher of men ; the gracious visit to his home at Capharnaum ; semane : pictures crowding on each other as the visions of refuge in a deep cave near , " where he could keep ; the spring slope of the mountain , and he to be their chief : the bush of when the strong waves were carrying him away in the storm ; death the summons back to life ; the firm hand saving him that morning in the synagogue of Capharnaum when he was rejoinder that he was the Rock ; he saw again His face shining S wore that I knew him not I because a maid Thabor : he heard again the warning given him in the Canada of faith that Jesus was the Son of the living God , and Jesus ' would go . " " Though all should deny Him . he would not . " He would die first . " Was ever loving resolve more sadly had not failed , nor his love cooled . but the courage that drew Coward and braggart : traitor and liar am I that he must hide somewhere his shame and sorrow , he took tered at a man's feet to be sprinkled with his tears ! ' His faith Should be the very Rock , those Eyes that shone To wipe away the sorrow of those Eyes . Faith had been divinely given him that he might be the Forgot all save myself-denied my Friend . That swore and ruffled - and when trial came the sword in the garden had died in the face of danger , and of the sheep and the lambs : now tenderness for the weak and as the sun and His garments white as snow in the glory of Rock : he loved above all the others for he was to have charge feast : himself casting his net into the sea when called to be lay , a strong man , bent and shaken with grief , the sob of a curried from the palace . That looked on me on me who once He said fear held him . the choosing of the twelve from the crowd gathered on the There in the firelight , in the court : those Eyes That looked on me ! ' Ah , Lord , come back Lord ! But one word to me THE MIGMAN OF THE CROSS . Outside the gate , in solitude and the faint light of coming Laughed at me . stonished at his grief , made way for him to pass , and he Feeling that he could not meet any of our Lord's friends . in the harvest of the Passion . thinking on these things . " he went bitterly . " The crowd Placid Wareing , C.P. Passion " ) . # A small church was afterwards built on this spot , called " Galli Cante " breaking heart laid upon the passing wind ! trowning . He would " follow Him whatsoever . He recked ? Did ever noble purpose more hopelessly lie shot- fallen must be his , for these are the " sheaves of joyfulness ' in the far away territory of Casarea-Philippi his outburst of the tears that would furrow his cheeks till death . 199 or " In Galli Cantu . " It was destroyed in the thirteenth century ( O 1999 --- Page 13 --- though he had known nothing of the priest's presence in the shall have you suggesting something indigestible at dinner as house . His wife had kept the secret from him so that he worst dangerous ; and there she died of fever , and the other the cause of the apparition next . ' Yes , ' Jemima , you have tears in the girl's dark eyes . her brother , a priest , somewhere in this house . That was in moonlight . ' the reign of that excellent queen whose portrait hangs in THE OTHER OF GOARSION HILL . " reign , if a priest happened to be caught he was put to death norrors of that awful place . They racked her-the brutes ! ' ' It is my opinion the child is not so easily frightened , my Gorreston in the pause that followed the story . gently . " You were dreaming . ' she went to take food to her brother in his hiding-place . ' What became of the priest ? " asked Jemima ; there were Lady Gorreston moved uneasily , and glanced at John . Undoubtedly . The Blue Lady-God reward her for her Don't frighten the child , John , ' from Lady Gorreston . ' ' Did you notice what dress the early wore ? ' asked John aken . Her husband was also imprisoned and heavily fined , ' Well , she was seized and thrown into one of Newgate's Some vile servant played the spy upon her mistress when " That explains that drinking-vessel and basket , then ! ' Lady Gorreston looked at her grandson a little apprehen- " I don't know much about it ; but go on . ' Very true . Well , in the golden days of her persecuting ' Tell me the story of the ghost , John , please . If there is a There was a silence . Lady Gorreston looked round at the cially , " do not destroy the dramatic effect of the scene . I ' Don't be a goose , child , ' said Lady Gorreston indul- John , with an air of mock solemnity . Did you ever see a ghost before , cousin Jemima ? " asked jemima . The Blue Lady was an ancestors of ours , who hid your room . ' " Not a bit , " replied Miss Trevyck , attacking battered toast . " Pardon me , my dear grandmama , " interposed John judi- group ; and said easily : sively . It is quite all right , granny : I'll be judicious . " said the story ? I have an idea that it was something blue , with threads " His sister managed to effect his escape before she was dear granny . " Are you frightened , cousin ? " could not be accused of treason if the matter became known . " of silver in it ; there were shining threads that caught the " He has rewarded her , " said Bretton softly . " Never . Oh , John , was it really a ghost ? " Detestable old thing ! young man . " The story is rather a grave one , though . hall sorts of horrors , as no doubt you know . sweet charity . 1 the honour of seeing the Gorreston spectre . The story is rather a grave one , though ear granny . " Are you frightened , cousin ? ' young man . ohn , with an air of mock solemnity . --- Page 14 --- with all the reverence of a truly devout soul . It was of tar- you have a right to first entrance , because to you belongs the reside it . There was a little table ; Temima set the lantern claimed the young man . " We may make discoveries , and ve ought to make them together . You go in first . Jemima . drops in the light of the lantern . " Clare made a movement unknown depths . Glancing at her companion's face , seen in to pick it up . Jemima saw John Gorreston gently stay her a flight of tortuous stone steps , apparently going down into probably the last that touched them , until now . Outside it John and the two girls were waiting . think , " said Jemima , " not just have left it without a word . " caught her . " Oh , look at this , lying all these years in the darkness ! ' A pile of what had once been bed-clothing lav on a bench had bestowed all his skill ; a work that must have been done other punctuated by giggles , jarred on her , as she descended " The Blue Lady may have left it on her last visit . " sug- glittered . It was a crucifix , some three or four inches long . Cousin Femima " - it was the head of the family speak . along the wall . A leather-bound book lay on a carved chair " I wonder why this was left , ' must Bretton , as they grave . Clare and Teresa exchanged inquiring stances . credit of this find . I'll clutch your skirts if you are THE OVER OF CORRESTON HALL. 203 . Be careful , " he said peremplorily ; and somehow I emima " We didn't think it fair to go in until you came . " ex- must have paced these stones . " he said . " her light tread was It was a thing of great beauty ; a work on which the artist The voices of Clare and Teresa , the one ejaculatorv. the the rugged steps behind Bretton . She slipped once ; but he nished gold , set with five great rubies , glowing like blood- thoughtfully . being built in the thickness of the wall . At the end appeared There was a silence . John Gorreston's face was extrem sister when he made his escape . ' of its expression . He caught the glance , and answered it as did not resent the tone . rightened . ' I'm not frightened , " said the girl soberly , and , taking It somehow makes them seemed , " said the girl ested John , " but we shall never know the truth about it . " stood looking at the relic . " Perhaps the priest left it for his she cried . followed . hand . the lantern from him she passed into the room . The others upon it ; as she did so its light struck upon something tha " He would have given it to her when they parted , I should I was thinking how many times the feet of the martur if she had spoken . The passage was extremely narrow for a short distance . The stairs ended at the doorway of a tiny vaulted room . unknown depths . e lantern light , Jemima was struck by the extreme gravity said the girl . he lantern light , light , Jemima was struck by the extreme grar- --- Page 15 --- of a priest . ' because the last hands that had touched it were probably those reason for the action under scrutiny . John temporarily the mystery being ' obtained . his that I do not understand . Why should a priest be more from other men : dedicated to the service of God . ' were grossly superfluous . There must be something in all " He likes to give pleasure to anyone , and that little gift able , world-wise cleric , and laughed as he replied : THE OVER OF CORRESTON HALL. 205 holy than another man ? ' effection , by John in watching her at that task . I do not know my uncle Newton , but his daughters " You are not a stupid person , cousin John . " tioned one had not the slightest intention of giving his real looking steadily at her : " I asked him to give it to you in all its bearings , and without any satisfactory solution of That question , though she was unconscious of the fact . had calling and in his person . ' but he met her look steadily as he replied : cousin , instead of dodging about in this way . ' ' Because he is sacrificed by solemn vows , and set apart Why could not you give it to me ? " Another praise . He is a very good sort of man ; an excellent imitation- " I thought it would please him . ' This directness was uncomfortable : especially as the ones - " Or" taking no notice of the irony - " I should say you lance at her face , changed his mind , and said quietly : grave pleasure , I hope , to you . ' who you asked Mr. Bretton to give me that crucilix , instead " Thank you , cousin Jemima , " ironically " I wish you would answer my question straightforwardly , touch it . Temima's bows wrinkled perplexedly . " Father . Ruth . I believe a priest to be holy both in his say that is merely superstition . ' " Because I did not feel myself worthy to be the first to of giving it to me yourself ? ' ' The fact that you consider a priest holy , or - that he is There was an increase of colour in John's sun-burnt face ; n spots of the real thing ; but a priest ? No. John saw before his mind's eve the form of that fashion- speak of him as a ' priest . ' Is he one ? ' across the wide extent of the country spread out below them . There was a minute's silence . occupied by Jemima in You have not answered my question , though , cousin . " Why ? " You think a priest's hands are holy ? My father would John , at first inclined to try badinage , after a sidelong holy ? " " Very well , " replied John Gorreston , sitting erect , an " Possibly . But that would not alter the fact . ' John saw before his mind's eye the form really exercised her Newton cousins ; it had been discu Jemima in 20th . --- Page 16 --- all about it . Why this unsisterly silence , you secretive little told you of her discovery , ' and then goes on gassing about to his pleasant suite of rooms on the sunny side of the house ; no longer made even a presence of interest in the impossible painfully conscious of a great change in him . He did not keep saying and doings of the impossible characters in those no trace of it remained . In its place was an anxious , uneasy . what he is going to do about some room or other , as if I knew look of easy indifference or cynical amusement had gone , eader on Femima's reappearance , and the daily reading of away murmur of gently-flowing waters ; and presently more or less of an invalid , that while she was daily with him his daughter's soft , musical voice sounded to him as the far- and glory , and keeping your affectionate family in the dark now , at their first meeting after her home-coming , she was Hicks , Mr. Trevyck's man , gladly gave up his post as wretch ? Here , you have been covering yourself with honour hand : " it's from Gorreston . " He says . " Your sister will have the serials began again and went on as of vote , but the hearer What's this about a discovery . Temima ? " asked Leo . a duty walk with his betrothed , and-regrettable to relate filled Iemima with a species of worried anxiety . The old time , and sat for hours in an invalid chair on the terrace out- but he was unable to walk for more than a few minutes at a tion , and in the first week of the Month of Roses went down panionship ; not for a single instant would Mr. Trevyck be emima realised that the reading was but an excuse for com- made what naughty children call " a face " at his absolutely to his daughter to be full of a haunting terror . excellent judge of character . ' The girl had become so accustomed to consider her father side his study windows . Sir Felix had been temporarily replaced in his former posi- unconscious form . that instant saw the subject of this discourse returning from So Iemima said farewell to the Elizabeth Chamber , where works of fiction . He sat absorbed in gloomy thought while to Trevyck . The owner of Gorreston Hall . 207 she had not noticed the indications of increasing ill-health : ' He is a very agreeable person , my dear ; your cousin grandmama ; I don't know why . ' left alone . restless searching of the faces around him ; a look that seemed oming out to the couple one morning , with a letter in his about it ! " Out with your dread secret , before I apply thumb- screws . " allow me to finish a sentence observed the old lady severely ; " your And the rebuked Temima , glancing out of the window at your cousin John is an " Oh , I know John thinks him a paragon of perfection . I should be obliged , Jemima , It was the change in her father's expression , however , that john- without interruption , " if you would in future . " Oh . I know John thinks him . observed the old lady severely ; " your cousin John is an should be obliged , ' Jemima . if you would in future --- Page 17 --- band . It is also occasionally necessary to bring home to you to contradict him . Treyyck that afternoon : " why did you stitch that cross to the Scotland Yard with clues to mysteries , and still leave a good of the little townlet of Summerton , a couple of miles from I have an impression that it would go very well to the tune His sister glared at him in speechless indignation . vell to that ; don't you think it does , ' Jemima ? of the case , because a needle , threaded with silk of the same article . I knew that you had stitches the cross to the lining Jemima ? " inquired Mr. Trevyck . case before bringing it to father ? colour as the stitches was hanging to your sleeve . Behold damp , musty odour of the passage to escape , " said Mr. so sweet in life as Lo-o-o-ve's young dream ! " Go deal over for personal use ! Why did you do it , Temima ? " Answer my question first . ' it . Of course you don't believe you saw a ghost , eh , by the picture swinging from its fastenings , and allowing the can piece evidence together , Jemima ! Brains ! Brains ! great surprise . " person to see the spectre or rather , to imagine that he saw ' How did you know that I had done so ? ' she asked in whom the detective instinct is strong enough to supply all elief , said nothing ; and they went on together . " Very good . Admire the marvellous manner in which I addition to the Force I should have been , had fate not other- dream , " she replied . He produced the needle from his pocket-book . A man is occasionally driven to become his own brass dinner , Jemima ? ' misquoted Jemima sarcastically . Treyck with decision ; and neither of his hearers ventured Leo looked at her scrutinisingly , but to his sister's great overtaking Jemima , who was walking briskly in the direction Your great-grandfather Gorreston was , I believe , the last wise decreed ! ' " Undoubtedly it was a dream , brought on in all probability of that old song fine old song , too ' There's nothing half Now answer my question . Temima . Why , etcetera - P " Bretton is coming down next week , " said Leo , presently . a baca of Avasia da Comstitution was written . Miss Treyck turned a deaf ear to him . " To stay ? " " Blow , trumpets , blow ! . Set the wild echoes flying ! " why . ' the fact that you have a brother superior to the ordinary What had you for " I want to know something , sister of mine , " said Leo , " Ah , my dear , you didn't know that you had a brother in My own brains of course , I mean . Ah , what a magnificent it ! ' I really do not know , ' father . It may have been a I prefer the ghost theory , " remarked Leo lightly : " it is far more interesting I really do not know , father . I ar more interesting than ' a dream . Because I did not want the crucifix pawed about . That's Goes very . narked Leo lightly : " it is --- Page 18 --- ikes to have cheerful faces about him . " Leo drew the girl's as you will not distress father by any display of sentiment- ' No . Doctor McGregor warned me not to let him have a tality-I think it only right to tell you , that his condition is Now and then , though , I have had the idea that he suspects . " as lively as we have always been : you know how much he hand within his arm . " We must think of him , not of our- " Does he know ? " asked the girl tremulously . A gulf , huge and wide , full of a horror of great darkness , cheerful before the pater . It's bad enough for him , without We must help him all we can . Just do our best to be ' Not at Trevyck . I asked him to stay with us , but he " Oh , but it is too dreadful-too dreadful ! the exercise of self-control . " said Leo diplomatically : " so- of hope while life lasts : but the doctor told me the other day selves . We shall have time enough to feet , afterwards poor At the Green Lodge . Smith and his wife will look after that the pater is really very ill ? ' Remember , Jemima , we must do all we can to appear You are not one of those feminine idiots who always have make no end of studies for one of his next Academy pictures . ' our doing anything to make it worse . face upon the speaker . old pater ! " ' Father likes him immensely ; in fact it was he who hought a visitor in the house might be a bit of a worry , or of terrified appeal . really dangerous . ' fits of hysterics when told something that asks specially for father is not going to get better ? " Let us go back , " said Jemima , after a minute of silence Leo stopped abruptly . His voice was getting out of control . emima stood still , and looked at her brother with eyes full ( To be continued . ) " Of course , " said Leo huskily , " there is always a shadow some nonsense of the kind , while the pater is shaky . Where will be stay ? ' for him . mean that father is going to die ? seemed to have suddenly opened itself before Temima . that seemed very long to her companion . " I cannot go to His voice failed as he thought of that fast-coming time . Summerton , to-day . The last words came in a horrified whisper . " Oh . Leo ! He is not-no. you don't mean-you can't " Leo ! You don't mean-anything serious ? That-that The tone was exceedingly grave . Jemima turned a startled What made you ask him to Trevyck ? ' suggested the invitation . Has it occurred to you , Jemima . uspicion of the real state of affairs : it might depress him . sim . He can have a couple of rooms there , and means to that it is only a matter of time ; nothing more can be do 1961 62 that the pater is really very ill ? ' --- Page 19 --- marches of the preceding weeks . For the rest we felt our- selves more or less in safety from the bombardment of the Belgian army in check behind its line of fortifications while guns were shortly baptized as " train-block . " Every three even hear the detonation of the charges , but only the loud never dawn ! The Germans knew it well : and were they again , engage in philosophic discussions on the subject of hear such pests as these bandied about : " That one wasn't a great shell exploded less than three hundred yards away . shell happened sometimes to be a little overdue you might distance falls upon the ear : gradually it becomes more and enough and a little too narrow . To have advantage of their might be yes ! but taken ? Nonsense ! " That day would cover meant to lie down or squat : and I was nowise surprised in improving the condition of the trenches : while others . It was as if a thunderbolt had fallen . On the instant just inconveniences cheerfully . When they are not mounting they were just making a faint of assault so as to hold the man guns which fired them were so far off that we could not So argued our soldiers ; but events were soon to belief their more acute , till at last the explosion follows with a beaten- the fort . " Our men would wait , watch in hand , and when a ties of war : and the giant projectiles of the German siege- But our soldiers are not fastidious , and they bear all these risk of an attack in the rear from the Belgians . comfortable had it not been that they were hardly deep bardment began to fall on the fort of Breendonk . The Ger- slept with six pair of legs resting on his head . suddenly , that sinister whirr was heard quite close to us and walls of Antwerp ? Not likely : they knew better . No : that heard when the noise of a locomotive coming in the ing and tremendous uproar . using a soldier's cap as card-table . ' Others' busy themselves was clearly their object . For otherwise their armies ran the Everyone was in the highest spirits . every heart welling most strongly fortified cities in the world ? Attacked it ver with jubilant optimism : Was not Antwerp one of the hero's part-a topic on which no soldier's tongue grows tired Soldiers soon find appropriate nicknames for all the novel- and repartee were frozen on every lip , and men looked at up to time . " " Ah ! local train , I dare say . " Then once , when one of our men told me one morning that he had going , think you , simply to break their heads against the or four minutes " one of those monsters was hurled against guard they generally wife away the time playing at cards , enemy . Indeed , one might have called those trenches quite # A fast train which ran between Brussels and Antwerp . whirring of the projectiles . ' The sound at first resembles soon . their own troops were being transported into France . In easonings . On October , is the first big shells of the bom- war , or relate the daring exploits in which they have born 213 . --- Page 20 --- in high good humour . Some of them came laughing to tell must have noticed a regiment " drawn up in a street waiting attention was paid to him . He glided down very low and late effort to force the ring of fortifications . They were all soon we shall have electricity , and we shall have a supply of Ste-Catherine were in the hands of the enemy ! ' This news victims : two frogs and one sparrow , of which they had just rather like that of roles underground just at present , but Or were his troops advancing in that direction ? I did not ommander-in-chief warning the troops of the gravity of the of service to the enemy in sighting their guns . In the event On the gates and walls was posted a proclamation of the trying to prove that the taking of two forts was no great street , as he intended , but on a neighbouring house . In an recovered the remains . They chatted gailv of the advan- tages of life in the trenches . " True , " said one , " the life is have to suppress war : it is much too dangerous a game . ' know and I dared not ask , for , in the early stages of the war about the evening before . The forts of Waelhem and Wave- could not believe that the enemy was really making a reso- ing in half-an-hour dropped a bomb which fell , not upon the previous afternoon had really succeeded in making three On this same Saturday the enemy played us another ugly No , " said another , rather more of a philosopher , " we shall On Monday , 5th of October , our field guns kept up a furious courage . Some unconquerable optimists even insisted on bombardment . Was the enemy trying to host his sums there ? through that opening he would be attacked on the flanks . worked feverishly at extinguishing the fire last it might be everyone thought he was one of our own airmen no particular we had no deaths to deplore , but the incident made a bad instant it was completely enveloped in flames : the soldiers serious aspect in the direction of Waelhem fort , our soldiers impression on our men . During the following day , in Waelhem direction , the battle istance . Although the battle seemed to be taking on a became clear what the officers had been whispering together to the bitter end . rick . One of their aviators . Few over our trenches , and as hem , it was said , the Germans had been repulsed . This gave ourselves invincible . the English troops had arrived . Now , indeed , we believed Saturday morning brought bad news . And at once it matter after all . If the enemy risked making an entry Happily we had better news towards evening . Near Wool- espionage . situation and at the same time encouraging them to resist had a depressing effect upon the men ; still they did not lose fresh heart to our brave fellows . A little later we heard that for its pay . Shortly afterwards he disappeared , but return- 1961 62m. fire . " The village in front of us was subjected in an innocent me how the Germans with their 1/4 big shells , all told , of the water laid on , and then ... Well , human for Progress especially , it was an easy matter to fall under suspicion of distance . 1961 62 . --- Page 21 --- asking me to admit him to membership of the Guild , and country where God has bestowed His gifts with a lavish Belfast whose name is James M. Cairns , and to whom I have sons at mine . The other boy wrote to me on August 8th. and generous view of the weather we have had for the past comes into our midst from Dublin this month and is heartily and the Guild . ' Lilian Nallv. the ever faithful , sends me a letter returning thanks for her Badge , takes this philosophic that the Rules are printed every month at the head of the pleasure in extending a warm welcome . I am very grateful post ! And on August 12th he wrote a second time to find selves and their schools which they were kind enough to send but the cause of the delay in replying to his first letter . I A new member with the sweet name of " Yvonne Delquel lovely spots that meet the eye at every turn " in our beautiful me , and for their big bundle of competition letters . " They and sends hearty good wishes for the welfare of THE Cross set all this down to show all the members what they are to schools . literary circles and every other worry whatsoever . later , to which I am already looking forward with eagerness . welcome . She has only just seen THE Cross for the first all , but I do not blame them for getting all the freedom they Guild . By bearing these things in mind members or in- Joseph A. Mullins is a new member who comes from Dun- and out of breath are the rule this time , time and is delighted with it . We have a newcomer from bone of contention . but then we have compensation in the matter in that way . Joe Power is delighted with her prize , me a full account of her wonderings in that storied land members of the Guild . ' Chrissie Burke , in the course of a AdHenry , Co. Galway , for the nice postcard photo of them- Short , hurried holiday notes that I can almost see panting study carefully the note which follows . Guild : that any letters arriving after the rash must lie in the can out of the vacation and blotting out for the time being Members and intending members will please bear in mind letter-box for a month ; that replies are not sent by post : and When to Write . Cross not later than the 14th of the month will be dealt with in the following month's tending members would save themselves and me a big lot of letters . Some members have not written at requesting a lot of information concerning it by return of void doing , and I trust each and every one of them will though there are a few good . long newsy trouble . to the members in the Presentation Convent Schools , are the best of girls . " and I am very proud to have them as ong , pleasant message from the hills of Mayo , and promises My Post Bag . wo months : ' I'm afraid that Irish weather is always a rand . ' I wonder if all holiday-makers have looked at the that letters received at the office of THI ly Post Bag . though there are a few good . long newsy --- Page 22 --- vander down that great hill and on to another-an orchard . full of beautiful . of exquisite wild flowers ; on and on past cairns of chieftains and fairy forts beauties of that grand old wood until the shades of evening close around you , tested outside the monastery , and the monks were kind to it , so it remained The light that never was on sea or land , from the window where I write I can see the lawn . Out in the grass are and you must " glad your homeward war . " I leave out " weary . " for old-world apple trees . where the fruit hang russet on the househ. and the of the lawn and over to the dear , old-fashioned ivy-grown house . Then you stretching for miles around you on every side , but the western scene is the chain of Connemara Mountains , and in the mist dear Croagh Patrick himself here ever since . The graveyard holds a great amount of interest . There is look up into the dusty heavens and smile a smile of gratitude to the pale of each other-no mortar or anything was used . It is still in a splendid with lovely little fuchsia belts futtering in the breese . Everything is glorious of the paper . They must be sent to the office of THE Cross The neighbourhood is most interesting . In the town of Bella there is an I round tower of a great height and age . built of great stones laid on top town by a beautiful saophire lake , dazzling in the sunshine : then up the tall your heart that those fateful days have gone . Then the beautiful little mossy # rocked angle , one star deeds out in the heavens , and you " wander . Wyliest " Sol sinking down to rest the joy of a poet's heart-and the long smiles down on us and on the hills and valleys so dear to his heart . We and your thoughts are carried back to the penal days . Then suddenly , singing ourse's should have gone over it all and revised it , but it is holiday time , his sincere and grateful friend . breeve goes whistling through the myriad beautiful leaves , and while you pull delightful time I am having in my old ancestral home . which lies nestling on not later than September 14th . All letters to be addressed : mbracing each other in their solitariness . Not a sound breaks the wordrops and wonderful and dear . members of a family ) , and must be written on one side only Celt's joy would be complete if she had you , dear Francis , to roam the hills beautful trees . Two tall years opposite the door-the Madi " and his It is said that the well was in Antrim , and someone vexed it , and it flew not a weary way . Climbing up our own hill you see most beautiful scenery Francis , c/0 . The Cross , St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus star that lighted you home . The consecration and the poet's dream . way westward and it came over Rockstown Hill and down into Bella . It and woods with her down graceful slopes with a carpet of lush grass so full through the tall trees . ville-here and there a sumack and here and there rose and fuchsia bushes , much sheltering amid the cool ferns , where to rest you go and dream of the down the grassy walk . over the stile , across the avenue . ' in the little gate state of preservation . There are some graves of our family for generations there . In one was found a beautiful bunch of gold curls , ' for generations a green hillside under the " great shadow of Croagh Patrick . A lonely little My dear Francis-See ! I am holidaying aware westward . ' Ho ! for the d rule , the Monastery of St. Mochu . Outside the door there is a holy well ilence : the scene is ethereal in its beauty , the scene you see westward above , a voice of light swakes you from your revenge and you thank God in altars that you would think of kneeling down and worship the Pure ; and I know Francis , with his own good heart , will forgive the little scrubber . Our prize papers . I hope that I have not wasted any of your precious time reading this . " Of , Dublin . Rockstown House , Bella , Co. Mayo . All is like an earthly Paradise , and as you wonder on you see stones so like , dopes of Crag . the lovely pine' wood where tall vines wave to " and fro . human narrow my home and its surroundings . " THE GUILD OF Blessed Gabriel . 2 # I've also been 219 state of preservation . There are some graves of our family for 218 --- Page 23 --- nind the temperance apostle . Father Mathew , whose name deserves to be pretty contrast to the slate-coloured walls . The back of the house , however , surely ever deserved by a nation . that of the " Island of Saints and Scholars . " is much more artistic-looking . It has a trim flower garden of pretty large taken up by shops . meat stores , butter stores , contentions , dentists , etc. crimson roses are trained . To crown the whole . the back door , as well as Standing on Parliament Bridge , which is separated from Dunbar-street by To one house , however , shall I confine my attention , and needless to say . while the window-frames being white with green ledges form a striking and of life . It is a foolish and vain fancy perhaps to imagine that others will be is covered with a glorious mantle of vivid green ivv. against which will table church of the Holy Trinity , nearing itself proudly , and recalling to the At one side , and taking up almost one-half of the street , stands the great old the back window-frames , are painted white , and the effect with the green this point of vantage one is enabled to view , across the singing river , the dimensions , which is almost evenly divided by a neat box-boardered path leading But it seems to me that I am spending too much time in pictures the interlace and form a green boxer . The old , wall at the back of the homes I street modestly situated in the south of Cork . To the careless observer it Dear Francis-The subject on which I write to run is a homoly theme no written across history's pages in letters of gold . The street is almost entirely an unconquerable rearning . of how far back in the misty past it has often can be seen , it possesses advantages which many of the less favoured streets perhaps old-fashioned , apartment , this kitchen , but it is the most frequented echoed the sacred chant of hermit , when Erin received the proudest title It is evening now and the household are gathered round the fire , for the here , " I will open the back door and enter into the kitchen of as friendly one in the house . world thinks lightly of it is , in Heaven's sight , " a thing of beauty and a a quay . " one can most fully appreciate the lower half of this street . From and some fairly large houses . to the back-door . Two splendidly-matched ash-trees standing on either side have no history . Nevertheless , each such simple , peaceful family-though the Surely the homes of Erin are among the happiest home circles in the world . The history of an Irish household , if faithfully recorded in all its seemingly doubt ; yet it is one that must appeal to those for whom home will ever be background and gaily-coloured flowers underneath is more than beautiful may , the attempt on my part to describe my home and its surroundings will The old Irish monks , who had a keen eye for beauty , selected its top as the hall-door entrance as well as a back . The hall-door is painted a dark green soet ever dreamed of . But peaceful households , they say , like happy nations . and hospitable an Irish home as to be found in all the land . It is a homely work of the day is over . A short chat , then the Rosary , and soon everyone eems at first sight like many another of the open , ordinary streets that commonplace details , would be truth and charming than is my own . In common with most houses in the street , it has a front or a word of witchcraft and magic with power to call back the sweetest memories be a labour of love . Dunbar-street ( for I intend to begin with the surroundings ) is the name of 23 Dunbar-street . Cork . is off to bed . comprise the towns nestling among the " fair hills of holy Ireland . " Yet , as the of a monastery , and at the bottom of the street , , where it , turns off into a quay , the river Lee , ripling along . fills the air with a soothing murmur mollie Joyce . with August , 1915 . joy for ever . do not . a city home . stirred as I am by the associations that cling to home . But he that as it parish church , and as I knew to benediction I begin to dream , in response to terior of the house , so now , with the old Irish greeting , " God save ,