I tax them neither with ignorance nor bad intentions.

I only regret that the land should be in their hands." "Pasture-farming under such conditions as these is a terribly hazardous pursuit.

A single year of drought will suffice to ruin a breeder completely.

In the years 1854-5 we lost from twenty to forty per cent.

of our cattle; in 1856-7 from seventeen to twenty per cent: and bear in mind that every beast, before it died, had been taxed." A champion of the Pontifical system offered to prove to me _by figures_ that all is for the best even in the ecclesiastical estates.
"We have our reasons," he said, "for preferring pasture to arable land.