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