LINKS WITH BYGONE DAYS OF YORE

Grattan and Flood wrote for this very paper, the editor cried in his face. Irish volunteers. Where are you now? Established 1763. Dr Lucas. Who have you now like John Philpot Curran? Psha!

Well, J. J. O’Molloy said, Bushe K.C., for example.

Bushe? the editor said. Well, yes: Bushe, yes. He has a strain of it in his blood. Kendal Bushe or I mean Seymour Bushe.

He would have been on the bench long ago, the professor said, only for .... But no matter.

J. J. O’Molloy turned to Stephen and said quietly and slowly:

One of the most polished periods I think I ever listened to in my life fell from the lips of Seymour Bushe.