BOOK ‘Modern Irish Short Stories’ Penguin Paperback, 1945, Got Damp 1967+2017. Plus extra post=$2.00 to all NZ. Paperback “Modern Irish Short Stories Ed: Alan Steele and Joan Hancock”, Publ: Penguin UK 1945. Spine intact 1945 binding. 128 yellowed pages. Curved corners. Book got wet in haversack in 1967. Auckland’s March 2017 rain, book got wet. Bought Whitcombe & Tombs, Queen St, Auckland, 1951. Family pencil name once. ‘The Tent’ Liam O’Flaherty. ‘How Jembu Played for Cambridge’ Lord Dunsany. ‘Orpheus with his Lute’ Frank O’Connor. ‘The Friend of Her Youth’ E.OE.Somerville and Martin Ross. ‘The Bombshop’ Sean O’Faolain. ‘Two Gallants’ James Joyce. ‘My Little Black Ass’ Padraic O’Conaire (translated by Cormao Breathnach) ‘Prongs’ L.A.G.Strong ‘The Story of Father Peter’ Norah Hoult. ‘The Cat Jumps’ Elizabeth Bowen. ‘The Ruining of Dromacurrig’ Daniel Corkery. Pages ‘Biographical Notes’. Excerpt, page 31, ‘Orpheus with his Lute’ The following night there wasn’t a shilling left of the seven-ten. ‘Boys’, says the bandmaster, ‘we’ll have to steady up now and try to realize the old instruments. And as we’re about it, I’ll start taking the subscriptions from ye’. And what he collected was the sum of fourpence ha’penny. ‘This won’t do, boys’, says he, ‘this won’t do at all, at all. Seven and six a man is what I want from ye, and I want it in a hurry’. He might as well have been asking a slice of the sky as having seven and six from that crowd. Weeks passed and a month passed, and three days before Patrick’s Day they had five and ninepence collected between them. ‘Oh, boys, boys’, says the bandmaster, ‘this is shocking. On Sunday morning I want every man jack of ye at the chapel gates, and if that money isn’t collected there’ll be bad work’. Measures:11cm X 18cm X 0.6cm. No cigarette. In Birkenhead.