He tells me that he needs somebody else besides himself on the staff of the _Croppy_, which, by the way, is to be enlarged and improved.

He wants a man who can write a column a week in Irish, as well as an article now and then in good strong plain English.

I suggested your name to him, and showed him some of the articles you had written.
He was greatly pleased with the one about O'Dowd's cheap patriotism, and liked one or two of the others.

He just asked one question about you: "Does Mr.Conneally hate England and the Empire, and everything English, from the Parliament to the police barrack?
It is this hatred which must animate the work." I said I thought you did.

I told him how you had volunteered to fight for the Boers, and about the day you nearly killed that blackguard Shea.