Augusta Goold's scheme for enrolling Irish volunteers to help the Boers was duly set forth in the next issue of the _Croppy_.

It included two appeals--one for money and one for men.

The details were worked out with the frank contempt for possibility which characterizes some of the famous suggestions of Dean Swift.

She had the same faculty that he had for bringing absurdities within the range of the commonplace; but there was this difference between them--Miss Goold quite believed in her own plans, while the great Dean no doubt grinned over the proof-sheets of his 'Modest Proposal.' It happened, most unfortunately, that the appeal synchronized with another, also for funds, which was issued by Mr.O'Rourke, the leader of the Parliamentary party.

Since the death of John O'Neill the purse of the party had been getting lean.