But such are the ideas now current in Ireland as to the relations of landlord and tenant, that immediately after his eviction Egan sent his daughter to gather some cabbages off the farm as if nothing had happened.

The Emergency men in charge actually objected, and sent the damsel away.

Thereupon Egan, on the 6th of September, served a legal notice on Mrs.Lewis, his landlady, requiring her either to let him take all the crops on the farm, or to pay him their value, estimated by him, as I have said, at L60, 13s.

Two days after this, on the 8th of September, more than a hundred men came to the place by night and removed the greater portion of the crops.

Not wishing a return of these visitors, Mrs.Lewis, on the 16th of September, sent word to Egan to come and take away what was left of the crops; one of the horses employed in the nocturnal harvest of September 8th having been seized by the police and identified as belonging to Egan.