Mr.Crawford did not particularly want to buy his beasts, but eventually agreed to do so, and gave him L50 for them.

The man went off with the money, but he never paid the rent! Mr.
Crawford discovering this called him to account, and refused to grant him some further favour which he asked.

The result is that the "distressed tenant" now cuts Mr.Crawford when he meets him, and is the prosperous owner of quite a small herd of cattle.
Mr.Crawford's opinion of the mischief done by the methods and spirit of the National League in this place is quite in accord with the opinions of the Bishop-Coadjutor.

Power without responsibility, which made the Caeesars madmen, easily turns the heads of village tyrants, and there is something positively grotesque in the excesses of this subterranean "Home Rule." Mr.Crawford told me of a case here, in which a tenant farmer, whom he named, came to him in great wrath, not unmingled with terror, to say that the League had ordered him, on pain of being boycotted, to give up his holding to the heirs of a woman from whom, twenty years ago, he had bought, for L100 in cash, the tenant-right of her deceased husband! There was no question of refunding the L100.

He was merely to consider himself a "land-grabber," and evict himself for the benefit of those heirs who had never done a stroke of work on the property for twenty years, and who had no shadow of a legal or moral claim on it, except that the oldest of them was an active member of the local League! Nor was this unique.
In another case, the children of a tenant, who died forty years ago, came forward and called upon the League to boycott an old man who had been in possession of the holding during nearly half a century.