Egan did not respond; but in July 1887 he brought an action against his landlady to recover L100 sterling for her "detention of his goods," and her "conversion of the same to her own use "! The case was heard by the Recorder at Kilmainham, and the facts which I have briefly recited were established by the evidence.

The daughter of this extraordinary "victim" Egan appeared as a witness, so "fashionably dressed" as to attract a remark on the subject from the defendant's counsel.

To this she replied that "her brothers in America sent her money." "If your brothers in America sent you money for such purposes," not unnaturally observed the Recorder, "why did they allow your father to sacrifice crops worth L60 for the non-payment of L8, 15s. ?" "They were tired of that," said the young lady airily; "the land wasn't worth the rent!" That is to say, a farm which yielded a crop of L60, and pastured several head of cattle, was not worth L8, 15s.

a year.

Certainly it was not worth L8, 15s.