CHAPTER X.
DUBLIN, _Thursday, March 1._--This has been a crowded day.

I left Portumna very early on a car with Mr.Tener, intending to visit the scene of his latest collision with the "National" government of Ireland, on my way to Loughrea.

It was a bright spring morning, more like April in Italy than like March in America, and the country is full of natural beauty.

We made our first halt at the derelict house of Martin Kenny, one of the "victims" of the famous "Woodford evictions," so called, as I have said, because Woodford is the nearest town.[13] The eviction here took place October 21st, 1887.

The house has been dismantled by the neighbours since that time, each man carrying off a door, or a shutter, or whatever best suited him.