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The same cattle now are selling for £5, and Kerry is a great stock-breeding country. It is very hard to define a landlord, and you will hear of some being landlords who do not get a shilling from their estates. Under these circumstances they would be like the fox in Æsop's fable who had lost his own tail.
By introducing sheep-farming on a large scale the landlords were able, they claimed, to use hundreds of thousands of acres which before were of comparatively little value. The large flocks of sheep could not, however, be kept without having the lower slopes of the mountains on which to winter.
Of the effect, therefore, of opening the ports, in diminishing both the real and nominal rents of the landlords, there can be no doubt; and we must not imagine that the interest of a body of men, so circumstanced as the landlords, can materially suffer without affecting the interests of the state.
He knows that we, the landlords, own the land which ought to be common property, and when he gathers some twigs for his oven we send him to jail and try to convince him that he is a thief." "I do not understand, and if I do, I cannot agree with you. The land cannot be nobody's property.
Why, you landlords are every bit as much town dwellers as I am thought, habit, dress, faith, souls, all town stuff. There IS no 'country' in England now for us of the 'upper classes. It's gone. I repeat: Duty to what?" And, rising, he went over to the window, looking out at the moonlit lawn, overcome by a sudden aversion from more talk.
But, alas! the blessings of landlords and poor-rates had not yet been bestowed on the island. One day after dinner, when these points were under consideration, Willis, who was accustomed to disappear after each meal, no one knew why or whereto, came and took his place amongst them under the gallery. "As for myself," said the Pilot, "I do not wish to live anywhere. Since I am in your house, Mr.
The rent-roll of this estate was £16,000 a year; and it was estimated that successive landlords had laid out about £250,000 in improvements which was just the sum expected to be realized by the sales.
It is a power that is felt rather individually than collectively it affects isolated places, but these in the aggregate reach importance. This power presses on the landlord the resident country gentleman upon one side; upon the other, the dissatisfied tenant-farmers present a rugged front. As a body the tenant-farmers are loyal to their landlords in some cases enthusiastically loyal.
At least three thousand of these occupants have banded together to fight the last raise, while the landlords have also combined to evict them unless they comply with the terms.
We listened to these tales, and went in a body. What made the matter worse, and our conduct the less excusable, was the fact, that we got good wages and good treatment in the Henry Kneeland. The landlords came with two boats, in the night; we passed our dunnage down to them, and away we went, leaving only one man on board.
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