But, seriously, the condition of these poor people would move even a Government official.

Besides, you remember the night I made thirteen speeches on the Naval Estimates--the Government wanted a little matter of twenty millions--and you met me in the Lobby and told me you wished to go to bed, and asked me what I really wanted, and--I am always reasonable--I said I would pass the whole Naval Programme if I got the Government to give them a boat-slip at Ballyduck.--"Done!" you said, and we both went home .-- I believe you knew that I had got constituency matters mixed up, that Ballyduck was inland, and that it was Ballycrow that I meant to say .-- But you won't deny that you are under a moral obligation.' Well, I would go into the matter again very carefully--for I thought we might help these fishermen in some other way--and write to him.

He leaves me; and, while outside the door he travels over the main points with my Private Secretary, the lights and shades in the picture which this strange personality has left on my mind throw me back behind the practical things of to-day.

In Parliament facing the Sassanach, in Ireland facing their police, he has for years--the best years of his life--displayed the same love of fighting for fighting's sake.

In the riots he has provoked, and they are not a few, he is ever regardless of his own skin, and would be truly miserable if he inflicted any serious bodily harm on a human being--even a landlord.