They bring a power of money to the place." "What do they do with the wheat lands now ?" "Oh, they're for sheep; they do very well.

Were you ever in Australia, sorr ?" pointing to a place we were passing.

"There was a man came here from Australia with a pot of money, and he bought that place; but he thought he was a bigger man than he was, and now he's found himself out.
I think he would have done as well to stay in Australia where he was." In quite a different vein he spoke of the landlord of another large seat, and of the way in which the people, some of them, had misbehaved--breaking open the graves of the family on the place, "and tossing the coffins and the bones about, and all for what ?" The view as we crossed the long and very fine bridge over the Shannon after dusk was very striking.

It was not too dark to make out the course of the broad gleaming river, and the lights of the town made it seem larger, I daresay, than it really is.

As we drove up the main street I told my jarvey to take me to the Castle.
"To the Castle, is it ?" he replied, looking around at me with an astonished air.
"Yes," I said, "I am going to see Mr.Tener, the agent, who lives there, doesn't he ?" "Oh, the new agent?
Oh yes; I believe he's a very good man." "You don't expect to be 'boycotted' for going to the Castle, do you ?" "And why should I be?
But I haven't been inside of the Castle gates for twenty years.