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"They'll all be up at Ballycloran to-morrow, and I'll hear what they have to say then." "But I tell you, they won't be there at all to-morrow, unless you come down to them to-night," answered Pat. "Do they main to say they refuse out and out to pay the rint?" "Not at all; but they'll be getting stiff if they think you're so thick with him as is their inimy and isn't that natural too?
I wish that filly of ours was dockt; you ought to spake to Jim M'Quade about her: it's time to make her up you know, we'll want to sell her for the rint." This was an assertion, by the way, which Ned knew to have everything but truth in it. "No; but I hope we won't be long go." "Well, any how, we wor in luck to buy in them three last rowls." "Eh? in luck? death-alive, how, Ned?"
It was the famine, miss, that came first, and stole the bit o' food that was saved. The praties were rotten in the field; and the poor pigs starved that should have helped us out wi' the rint. Och, but it was a sore time o' grief whin sorra a mouthful were left for the bit childer and the ould people who were weak before wi' ould age!
Sure nine-tenths of the land is owned by Englishmen, who make us pay twice, aye, an' four times the rint the land is worth; an' that's what England thinks us good for, an' nothin' else. We're just slaves to the Saxon, as many's the time I heard the priest sayin' it. An' it was thrue for him.
We ate the great cereal of Mars the Rint a delicious food, in which, as it seemed to me, the substance of a sort of rice was mingled with a creamy exudation in all of which was enclosed the flavor of the orange and the peach. This, with a fruit, a kind of milk, and many wines, forms the nourishment of the Martians.
At the sound of the sweet voice, so full of sympathy, the girl started quickly, and turning to Bessie, looked at her wonderingly; then, as if by some subtle intuition she recognized the difference there was between herself and the stranger whose beautiful face fascinated her so strongly, she said: "Oh, lady an' sure you be a lady, even if you are here with the likes of me I had to lave me father, we was so poor and the taxes is so high, and the rint so big intirely, and the landlord a-threatenin' of us to set us in the road any foine mornin'; and so I'm goin' to Ameriky to take a place; me cousin left to be married, and if I does well an' sure I'll try me best I gets two pounds a month, and ivery penny I'll save to bring the old father over.
The very landlord was timorous of them; for when they'd get behind in their rint, hard fortune to the bailiff, or proctor, or steward, he could find, that would have anything to say to them. And the more wise they; for maybe, a month would hardly pass till all belonging to them in the world would be in a heap of ashes: and who could say who did it? for they were as cunning as foxes.
"That's betwixt you and him," replied the officer indifferently. "I'm here to look out for the city. If you are going to take pictures, get out your license at wanst. And you'd better be after seeing Bud McShane the regular bill sticker, about the rint of what space ye want, or he'll be in your hair, the nixt." With this the policeman walked leisurely away, swinging his club.
On Friday, November 18, 1881, two tenants, named Cronin and one O'Keefe, holding land from Lord Kenmare, came into my office in Killarney. O'Keefe, an old man of seventy, was the spokesman, and said: 'If you plase, sorr, we have the rint in our pocket, and would be glad to pay it if it were not for the fear that we have of being shot. To my lasting regret, I replied: 'There is no danger.
"It is a difficult matter to arrange," observed the brilliant author of the School for Scandal, "Right you are, darlint," acquiesced CURRAN, with the least taste of a brogue. "But where are ye to find the spalpeens for it? Ye may wake so poor a creature as a sow, but it takes a real gintleman to raise the rint!"
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