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44 St. Kevin's Park
Dartry Road
Dublin.

20th Nov^r. 1921

Dear Sir,

You've done it; & you've done
it now for the third time. You did
it first when you made John Burnet's
man mount a wall, draw his sword &
salute his foes, &, then, dive into the Scheldt
or the Maas or some other of those miry
rivers in the low countries. You did
it again when the fellow who saluted
adventure fought with the Indian in an
American sheugh. This time you've
done it, when General Hannay &
Archie, watching the German aeroplanes
being downed, see the sixth one
which has just jinkit two British
planes, faced with another - the little
Gladas. That has done it. I've had
to lay down Mr Standfast, blow my
nose several times, for my wife's at the
other side of the fire, light my pipe
& even blow again. Kinglake
did the same to me long ago when
he told how Sir Colin Campbell