'I admire your verses, Mary, as much as anyone, but we want a collection at every church door after Mass.

That's what we ought to have, but it's exactly what we won't get, because the priests are West Britons at heart.

They would pray for the Queen and the army to-morrow, like Cardinal Vaughan, if they weren't afraid.' 'I believe,' said Finola, 'that we went the wrong way about the thing altogether.

We asked for a hospital, and we appealed to the people's pity for the wounded Boers.

Nobody in Ireland cares a pin about the Boers.