It don't go to the landlords, or to the shopkeepers, or the mechanics; and then we that have been selling on credit, and long credit too, where are we?
Formerly, from one place, Dromoland, Lord Inchiquin's house, we used regularly to make a bill of a hundred pounds at Christmas, for blankets and other things given away.

Now the house is shut up and we make nothing!" It is a short but very pleasant drive from Ennis to Edenvale--and Edenvale itself is not ill-named.

The park is a true park, with fine wide spaces and views, and beautiful clumps of trees.

A swift river flows beyond the lawn in front of the spacious goodly house--a river alive with wild fowl, and overhung by lofty trees, in which many pairs of herons build.

A famous heronry has existed here for many years, and the birds are held now by Mr.and Mrs.Stacpoole as sacred as are the storks in Holland.