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Consequently rather more than half the quantity which the tenantry required to sell in other years to make up a given sum, answered the same purpose on this; and even such of the tenantry as paid their rents had an unusual quantity left after disposing of what enabled them to meet their engagements; and this has been converted into meal and stored in their houses, or remains in stack in their haggards.
They are not so scarce on the Marches these Flemish wenches, that they should fear being hawked at by Welsh haggards." "Raoul is right, Rose," answered Eveline; "it is absurd to be cooped uplike birds in a cage, when all around us has been so uniformly quiet.
Fitzgerald: The haggards are in the Savings' Banks. Mr. Kelly: You will find them in the pockets of a great many landlords. I don't say in yours. In Bandon there was a somewhat similar meeting.
"For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs Close by the ground, to hear our conference." The lapwing is a kind of plover, and is very swift of foot. When trying to avoid being seen they run rapidly with depressed heads, or "close by the ground," as the poet puts it. In the same scene, HERO says of URSULA: "I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock."
Lo! there is nothing left for me to go for, Lo! there is naught inadequately formed. My dear friend J.K.S. was responsible for the aspiration frequently quoted: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards ride no more. Although I can hardly claim Symonds as a Soul, he was so much interested in me and my friends that I must write a short account of him.
Lord John speaks of the corn in the haggards of Ireland. There was, I believe, much corn in some of them, at the time he addressed his letter to the Duke of Leinster. Why did not the Government buy it, instead of sending to America and Malta for Indian corn and bad wheat?
The Landlords and the Government Public Meetings Reproductive Employment demanded for the People The "Labouchere" Letter Presentments under it Loans asked to construct Railways All who received incomes from land should be taxed Deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society to the Lord Lieutenant They ask reproductive employment Lord Bessborough answers cautiously The Prime Minister writes to the Duke of Leinster on the subject Views expressed Defence of his Irish Famine policy Severe on the Landlords Unsound principles laid down by him Corn in the haggards Mary Driscoll's little stack of barley Second Deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society to the Lord Lieutenant Its object Request not granted The Society lectured on the duties of its Members Real meaning of the answer Progress of the Famine Deaths from starvation O'Brien's Bridge Rev.
He said, few farmers in that district had money to put in Savings' Banks, but if the farmers had hundreds, as was asserted, surely the gentlemen ought to have millions. When the gentlemen complained of want of means, no wonder the farmers did the same. There was not, Mr. Kelly maintained, enough of corn in the haggards of the country to last until the 1st of June, Mr.
Had his lordship ascertained, before he wrote, how many of the stacks in Irish haggards had the landlord's cross upon them for the rent, like poor Mary Driscoll's little stack of barley at Skibbereen? It stood in her haggard while her father, who resided with her, died of starvation in a neighbouring ditch!
A fox was found, if not in the kitchenmaid's bedroom in some spot of almost equal intimacy, and the Hunt surged in and through yards, and haggards, outhouses, and gardens, the hounds over-running all the complicated surroundings of an Irish country-house, while every grade of domestic, forsaking his or her lawful occupation, joined in the chase.
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