Shortly after the boat-race, being now nine years old, I went home
to England to go to school.





CHAPTER III


A new departure--A Dublin hotel in the "sixties"--The Irish mail
service--The wonderful old paddle mail-boats--The convivial
waiters of the Munster--The Viceregal Lodge-Indians and pirates--
The imagination of youth--A modest personal ambition--Death-
warrants; imaginary and real--The Fenian outbreak of 1866-7--The
Abergele railway accident--A Dublin Drawing-Room--Strictly private
ceremonials--Some of the amenities of the Chapel Royal--An
unbidden spectator of the State dinners--Irish wit--Judge Keogh--
Father Healy--Happy Dublin knack of nomenclature--An unexpected
honour and its cause--Incidents of the Fenian rising--Dr.
Hatchell--A novel prescription--Visit of King Edward--Gorgeous
ceremonial but a chilly drive--An anecdote of Queen Alexandra.

Upon returning from school for my first holidays, I learnt that
my father had been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and that
we were in consequence to live now for the greater portion of the
year in Dublin.

We were all a little doubtful as to how we should like this new