Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

and we went down in a cab to the North Wall and had tea with him on his ship, the S.S.Cork. He showed Bissell the gun which he had on board to defend his boat against submarines, or rather as he would put it, to sink any submarine he saw for at that time he would have given anything to have had a shot at one.
July 14th. One of the best remembered outings of my stay in Dublin took place on this date. Mr.Wilkinson a veterinary surgeon called for us in his two seater car and Bissell, White and I (the two former sitting on the Dicky seat behind) went down with him to his seaside cottage in Rush about 12 miles away. On the way down we called at the Government Remount Station and saw a large number of horses being exercised round a large track. He looked after us splendidly when we reached Rush and we agreed when we got back that we’d enjoyed ourselves immensely.