No trace of them could be got.

But long weeks after they vanished, some lads in a field several miles away saw numbers of crows hovering over a particular point.

They went there, and there at the bottom of an abandoned coal-shaft lay the shattered remains of these lost cattle.

The poor beasts had been driven blindfold over the fields and down into this pit, where, with broken limbs, and maimed, they all miserably died of hunger." "Yes," said one of the tenants, "and our cattle'd be driven into the Shannon, and drownded, and washed away." "You must understand," interposed Mr.Tener "that when cattle are thus maliciously destroyed the owners can recover nothing unless the remains of the poor beasts are found and identified within three days." The disgust which I felt and expressed at these revelations seemed to encourage the tenants.

One of them said that before the evictions came off certain of the National Leaguers visited him, and told him he must resist the officers.