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It was pleasant to be travelling like that so late at night with Mrs Cottier; I felt like a knight who had just rescued a princess from a dragon; we talked together as we had never talked before. Whenever we climbed a bad combe she dismounted, and we walked together hand in hand like dear friends.
When we had dressed the wound, I turned to the trap to lift out Mrs Cottier's parcels, which I carried indoors. Breakfast was ready on the table, and Mrs Cottier and Hugh were toasting some bread at the fire. My aunt was, of course, breakfasting upstairs with my uncle; he was hardly able to stir with sciatica, poor man; he needed somebody to feed him. "Good morning, Mims dear," I cried.
I'll be in my rooms you know where they are, don't you on the cottier over " "Yes, I know," Jimmie Dale broke in tersely; then, quietly: "All right, Forrester, I'll come." "Thank God!" came Forrester's voice and disconnected abruptly. Jimmie Dale replaced the receiver on the hook, stared at the instrument again in a perplexed way; then, called the garage on the private house wire.
The Irish peasant was half starved, half naked, and half housed; the canopy of heaven being often the only roof to the mud-built walls of his cabin. The fewness of negroes gave the West India proprietor an interest in the preservation of his slave; a superabundance of helots superseded all interest in the comfort or preservation of an Irish cottier.
"Hush!" said Hugh; "there's some one calling it's Mother." Outside the gorse-clump, at some little distance from us, we heard Mrs Cottier and my aunt calling "Hugh!" and "Jim!" repeatedly. We lay very still wondering what they would think, and hoping that they would make no search for us.
Then he cleared the room for a private consultation. "Out you go, Cottier. Look slippy, man!" Auntie Nan fled in terror. When she had summoned resolution to invade afresh the place of the bear that had possession of her lamb, the Clerk of the Rolls was rising from the foot of the bed and saying "We'll leave it at that then, Christian.
The others laughed a harsh laugh, turning to the African boat with curious faces, to watch our boat pulling back, with Marah at her steering oar. I had some queer misgivings, but said nothing till afterwards, when I found Marah alone. "Marah," I said, "where is Mr Cottier? What have you done to him?" He grinned at me grimly, as though he were going to refuse to tell me.
Many large holdings are leased to middlemen who have sublet them at extravagant rents, but cannot be dispossessed. This is the system which now exists, yet the great landholders I have consulted describe it as the result which will be brought about by giving the fee-simple of holdings to cottier tenants.
"I will, Mrs Cottier," I said; "I'll always be a brother to Hugh." I was too deeply moved to say much more, for I had so long yearned for some woman like my mother to whom I could go for sympathy and to whom I could tell everything without the fear of being snubbed or laughed at. I just said, "Thank you, Mims."
No, not in my district." Mr Michael Digan "46. Has there been any consolidation of farms in the district with which you are acquainted in the county of Tipperary? No. In my immediate neighbourhood the cottier system of having five or six acres is more practised than in the county of Clare."
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