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About the time of his birth, his father purchased the fee-simple of the large farm which he had previously rented, and two of his uncles having made similar investments, the family became proprietors of the townland on which they lived. Mr.
"Not but there's worse than you after all, and be damned to you." "An' betther, sir, too, i' you please, for sure, God help me, I'm not what I ought to be." "Well, mend then, why don't you? for you want it. Come now, no jaw, I tell you, but answer me what I am about to ask you; not a word now." "Well, no then, plaise your honor, I won't in throth." "Did you warn the townland of Ballymackscud?"
Then she raised herself out of the water, turned round in the air, and flew back to the middle of the lake. "Time for us to be leaving the place when there is a bird on the lake that can speak like that," said Mogue, who had been the Captain of the Robbers. "To-night I'm leaving this townland." "And I am leaving too," said another robber. "And I too," said another.
Olphert for a whole year to his own people, who had never asked for anything of the kind! Mr. Olphert said he knew Gweedore well. He owns a "townland" there, on which he has thirty-five tenants, none of them on a holding at more more than £4 a year. Father M'Fadden of Gweedore, he said, finding that the people on Mr.
Two youths who served me he took away, one after the other, and miserable are they made by what he did to them. I'm in dread of your being brought to the Townland of Mischance." "Why are you in dread of it, Spae-Woman?" said Gilly. "Sure, I'll be glad enough to see the world." "That's what the other two youths said," said the Spae-Woman.
Where the cattle-run remains it is mapped out as a "reserve" for a certain townland, and is greatly prized by the peasants. It may therefore be imagined that those from whom it has been taken by the strong hand are bitterly resentful, and even where the change was made so long as twenty-five or thirty years ago nourish a deeply-rooted sense of wrong.
This became a great trouble to him, for the people in the Townland of Mischance used always to say, "Don't let the grass grow under your feet," when they meant "Make haste," and "Don't be there until you're back," when they meant "Go quickly" and "Come with horses' legs" when they meant "come with great speed."
"It's this Cucullin," said he, "that's troubling me. When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a whole townland; and it's well known that he can stop a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in the shape of a pancake, to show to any one that might misdoubt it."
"Every sowl in the townland of Ballymackt 'ud; and there's the upshot. But it's all Mr. Hickman, sir; for he tould them 'I will have none of this work, says he; 'the tenants musn't be harrished and fleeshed in this manner, says he. "I told you before, sirra, that I will have nothing offensive to him mentioned in my presence. Give this letter to Mr.
"If one could make him say that he, the master, is sorry for the bargain, the Churl himself would lose a strip of his skin an inch wide from his neck to his heel, and would have to pay full wages no matter how short a time the youth served him." "It's a bargain anyway," said Gilly, "and if he comes I'll take service with the Churl of the Townland of Mischance."
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