ally
engaged. The insurance cards of the dismissed men were properly stamped.
They were indubitably out of work. They received unemployment pay.

After that, the dismissal of servants, indoor and out, became a regular
feature of life at Castle Affey. On Monday morning, Lady Corless went
down to the village and dismissed everyone whom she had engaged the week
before. Her expenditure in insurance stamps was considerable, for she
thought it desirable to stamp all cards for at least a month back.
Otherwise her philanthropy did not cost her much and she had very little
trouble. The original staff went on doing the work at Castle Affey.
After three months every man and woman in the village had passed in and
out of Sir Tony's service, and everyone was drawing unemployment pay.

The village became extremely prosperous. New hats, blouses, and entire
costumes of the most fashionable kind were to be seen in the streets
every Sunday. Large sums of money were lost and won at coursing matches.
Nearly everyone had a bicycle, and old Malone bought, second hand, a
rather dilapidated motor-car. Work of almost every kind ceased entirely,
except in the big house, and nobody got out of bed before ten o'clock.
In mere gratitude, rents of houses were paid to Sir Tony which had not
been paid for many years before.

Lady Corless finally dismissed herself. She did not, of course, resign
the position of Lady Corless. It is doubtful whether she could have got
twenty-five shillings a week if she had. The Government does not seem
to have contemplated the case of unemployed wives. What she did was to
dismiss Bridie Malone, cook at Castle Affey before her marriage. She had
been married, and therefore, technically speaking, unemployed for nearly
two years, but that did not seem to matter. She secured the twenty-five
shillings a week and only just failed to get another five shillings
which she claimed on the ground that her husband was very old and
entirely dependent on her. She felt the rejection of this claim to be an
injustice.

Captain Corless, after a long period of pleasant leisure, found
himself suddenly called on to write a report on the working of the
Unemployment-Pay Scheme in Ireland. With a view to doing his work
thoroughly he hired a motorcar and made a tour of some of the more
picturesque parts of the country. He so arranged his journeys that he
was able to stop each night at a place where there was a fairly good
hotel. He made careful