5/53 Often the graziers that do large business with the companies, will have a right to send over a number of men free; and they stowaway too; and then on the railways in England they get passes free often from cattle-dealers, specially when they are coming back, and the dealers don't want their passes. They'll bring back L7 and L10. I was on a boat once, and there was a man; he was drunk; he was from Galway somewhere, and they took away and kept for him L18, all in good golden sovereigns; that was the most I ever saw. And he was drunk, or who'd ever have known he had it ?" "Do the farmers build houses for the labourers ?" "Build houses, is it! Glory be to God! who ever heard of such a thing? |