1. Here is a great wrong.
2. " growing wrong.
3. " wrong founded on crime.
4. " crime that the Government cannot prevent.
5. " crime that it occurs to no man to defy.
6. But it has occurred to me.
7. Being a known person, some will notice my defiance.
8. Being a writer, I can MAKE people notice it.
9. And, I think, MAKE people imitate me.
10. Which would destroy in time this whole scaffolding of
oppression.
11. And if I fail, however ignominiously, that is not my concern.
It is, with an odd mixture of reverence and humorous remembrances
of Dickens, be it said - it is A-nother's.

And here, at I cannot think what hour of the morning, I shall dry
up, and remain, - Yours, really in want of a little help,

R. L S.

Sleepless at midnight's dewy hour.
" " witching "
" " maudlin "
" " etc.

NEXT MORNING. - Eleventh Objection: I have a father and mother.
And who has not? Macduff's was a rare case; if we must wait for a
Macduff. Besides, my father will not perhaps be long here.
Twelfth Objection: The cause of England in Ireland is not worth
supporting. A QUI LE DITES-VOUS? And I am not supporting that.