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 much of their primitive character; unfortunately, added Mr. Shaw, it is impossible to land on the island in question.

Good, you’ll have a look round there on your own. You’ll buy a guide-book to Ireland, you’ll select a few nice places and you’ll write letters from Ireland.

Beginning with Glasgow, I wander from one bookshop to another to buy a guide-book to Ireland. But the bookseller shakes his head pensively; no, he hasn’t a guide-book to Ireland. He had guide-books to Cornwall and the Dukeries, to Snowdon and the Wembley Exhibition, but as it happens, nothing for Ireland, sorry, nothing whatever. “Our people don’t go there.”

It would take me only a few paltry hours to get from here to Ireland; but tell me, what earthly reason is there why I should