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Poor Jukes is in a sort of semi-despair about all 

 this business, and considering that he will be adding 

 ten more Irishmen to his already Irish lot, I don't 

 wonder at it. His chief man lately informed him that 

 he had given up taking and recording dips, as he 

 found it to be useless! Jukes simply longs for the 

 day when he will be able to retire, from age, and wear 

 out the fag-end of his days, un worried by Irishmen 

 and Boilermen, and I considerably sympathise with 

 him. . . . Oh for an hour of brave old De la Beche, 

 in his best days, to look ahead and provide for the 

 future ! Ever sincerely, ANDW. C. RAMSAY. 



une 1867. 



MY DEAR GEIKIE I had barely time to write you 

 yesterday about your summons by Sir R. Jukes is 

 exceedingly fidgety. He has not a man in Ireland 

 that he can trust to training others. Also, they are 

 all so unruly, that without rules (printed) every one 

 will be in rebellion. Even on this side of the water 

 I have no doubt we are all frightfully mismanaging 

 everything without knowing it. At least, I have no 

 doubt I am, and I see no reason why you should not 

 be doing the same. If you feel conscious that you are 

 not doing the same, that merely proves that you are 

 so blinded by ignorance and cockyness that you don't 

 know when you are doing mischief. At least, I believe 

 that is the case with me. Therefore everything must 

 be reduced to printed rules. 



Now I am of this way of feeling, viz. I don't 

 want to have any duties, and I don't want to do them ; 

 and if it so happen that you are of the same opinion, 

 then it may fall out that Jukes may get printed rules 

 for Ireland, and leave us to that ancient unwritten 



