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Well, yer honour, all this was as well as well could be; but it was customary when Sir Phelim id go anywhere out iv the country, for some iv the tinants to sit up to watch in the ould castle, just for a kind of compliment to the ould family an' a mighty unplisant compliment it was for the tinants, for there wasn't a man of them but knew there was something quare about the ould castle.
I'm not saying a word agin your tinants, but where there's money to be made you can't trust not no man." "Well, well," said the Squire, "perhaps you are right and perhaps you ain't. Right or wrong, you always talk like Solomon in all his glory. Anyway, be off with that note and let me have the answer as soon as you get back.
I think it's all the throuble I had with it, and with the tinants, that made me love it so. God forgive me I was hard enough to some of them!" Father John remained with him till the evening was far advanced, and then left him, promising to be in court on the morrow. "Let me see you there, Father John," said he.
An' th' more he made, th' more he wanted, an', wantin' nawthin' more, it come to him fr'm the divvle, who kept th' curse f'r his own time. This man Ahearn, whin he had acres an' acres on Halsted Sthreet, an' tinants be th' scoor that prayed at nights f'r him that he might live long an' taste sorrow, he marrid a girl.
Ye'er boys'd be joods an' ashamed iv ye, an' ye'd support ye'er daughters' husbands. Ye'd rackrint ye'er tinants an' lie about ye'er taxes. Ye'd go back to Ireland on a visit, an' put on airs with ye'er cousin Mike. Ye'd be a mane, close-fisted, onscrupulous ol' curmudgeon; an', whin ye'd die, it'd take half ye'er fortune f'r rayqueems to put ye r-right.
"Ivry night they was a party on th' hill, an' th' people come fr'm miles around; an' th' tinants trudgin' over th' muddy roads with th' peelers behind thim cud see th' light poorin' out fr'm th' big house an' hear Devine's band playin' to th' dancers. Th' shopkeepers lived in clover, an' thanked th' lord f'r a good landlord, an' wan that lived at home.
And I'm not denying that they is bad for the tinants, but if they is bad for the tinants they is wus for the landlord. It all comes on his shoulders in the long run. If men find they can get land at five shillings an acre that's worth twenty, why it isn't in human natur to pay twenty, and if they find that the landlord must go as they drive him, of course they'll lay on the whip.
Wid that, says he, 'Pat, says he, 'where's the stills mostly at work now? 'Faith, says I, 'I don't exactly be knowing; for, yer honour, I niver turned a penny that way myself 'but, says I, 'sich a one'll tell you, and I mintioned one of the tinants; 'and where's he? said the masther; 'why I heard tell, says I, 'that he's in Aughacashel, but av you'll go down to Drumleesh, you'll find out, and wid that he went down the road to Drumleesh, and I druv the body off to Carrick."
"To Aughacashel." "Where's Aughacashel?" "It's a mountain behind Drumshambo." "And did he tell you why he was going to Aughacashel?" "That he mightn't be tuk, I s'pose." "I don't want your supposition. Did the prisoner tell you why he was going to Aughacashel?" "There war some of the tinants there, I b'lieve, and he thought he'd be safe may be."
Larry was long ailing; I fear this has knocked him up intirely; what'll the tinants do now at all? they'll have no one over thim but Keegan, I suppose: he'll be resaving the rints now, Father John; won't he?" "Don't mind that now, my boy; you've enough on your heart now without troubling yourself about that." "Well, then, I'll be wishing you good bye; I'll go on to Carrick."
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