My jarvey was rather a taciturn fellow, but by no means insensible to the charms of his native region.

About the Ponsonby estate and its troubles he said very little, but that little was not entirely in keeping with what I had heard at Youghal.

"It was an old place, and there was no grand house on it.

But the landlord was a kind-man." "Father Keller was a good man too.

It was a great pity the people couldn't be on their farms; and there was land that was taken on the hills.