All I have to object to is that they set fire to an outhouse of mine, and cut the ears of one of my heifers, and for that I want damages.

Otherwise I'm getting on very well; and I think this will be a good year, if the law is enforced, and these fellows are made to behave themselves." Near Bolton's farm we passed the holding of a tenant named Kavanagh, one of the three who were "allowed" to pay their rents.

Several Land League huts are on his place, and the evicted people who occupy them put their cattle with his.

He is a quiet, cautious man, and very reticent.

But it seemed to me that he was not entirely satisfied with the "squatters" who have been quartered upon him.