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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER IX
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We heard them crashing through the undergrowth on all sides.

There must be capital fishing, too, in the lake, and in the river of which it is an expansion.
While they were getting the cars ready for a drive, came up another son of the soil.

This man I found had only a small interest in the battle on the Clanricarde estates, holding his homestead of another landlord.

But he admitted he had gone in a manner into the "combination," in that he had paid a certain, not very large, sum, which he named, to the trustees, "just for peace and quiet." He considered it gone, past recovery; and he named another man with a small holding, but doing a considerable business in other ways, who had "paid L10 or more just not to be bothered." Upon this Mr.Tener told me of a shopkeeper at Loughrea in a large way of business, a man with seven or eight thousand pounds, who, finding his goods about to be seized after the agent had turned a sharp strategic corner on him, and unexpectedly got into his shop, was about to own up to his defeat, and make a fair settlement, when the secretary of the League appeared, and requested a private talk with him.
In a quarter of an hour the tradesman reappeared looking rather sullen and crestfallen.

He said he couldn't pay, and must let the goods be taken.


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