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Comedy and tragedy are on easy terms With one another in the lrejand of to-day, which is much about' the same as the Ireland of yesterday and to-morrow. You have a comedy of errors, the product of honest. endeavour to banish grievance that has ceased to exist, and the tragedy of more or less frivolous acquiescence in, or acceptance of, a situation quite too terrible for words, 'As an example take a corner boy' Jolling against the wall of a public-house in amicable conversation with a member of the R.I.C., whom he has been told off to murder within the next few days, and listen' to the casual remarks of good citizens passing by "Phat's the boy that is the grandest Head Constable in the County, and I'll lay you they get him before nes t High A Bevy or Brackevarps-
Last night I lay awake, lulled by the quiet persistence of the rain without, and worried within by the recollection of a recent conversation with Murphy, my gardener.
He had spoken, after careful scrutiny of the bushes round about us, of "them that gives the word" and "them that must obey or be found dead," unshriven, etc., and I wondered how it came about that British Intelligence Departments (I think there were five of them) should, after beating the Wilhelmstrasse, be knocked flat by a bevy of little blackguards working on German lines.
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