The tea-shops reaped a rich harvest from the regal way in which they treated their female relatives and friends.

Indeed, their presence must have seriously disorganized the occupations by which young women earn their living.

It was difficult to imagine that the sick in the hospitals could have been properly looked after, or the letters of solicitors typewritten, so great was the number of damsels who attached themselves to these attractive heroes.

The philosophic observer found another curious subject for speculation in the fact that this parade of military splendour took place in a city whose population sympathized intensely with the Boer cause, and was accustomed to receive the news of a British defeat with delight.

The Dublin artisan viewed the yeomen much as the French in Paris must have looked upon the allied troops who entered their city after Waterloo.
The very name by which they were called had an anti-national sound, and suggested the performance of other amateur horse-soldiers in Wexford a century earlier.
The little band whose writings filled the pages of the _Croppy_ were more than anyone else enraged at the flaunting of Imperialism in their streets.