ory, its literature, the manners of the
people, their customs, and their prejudices. The peasantry know this,
and too often practise upon their ignorance. There is a landlord's _Vade
mecum_ sadly wanted in Ireland, Colonel."

"Ah! very good, O'Brien, very good! Well, I shall certainly inquire into
this case, and if I find that Yellow Ham has been playing the oppressor,
out he goes. I am now able to manage him, which I could not readily do
before, for, by the by, he had mortgages on my property."

"I would take it, Colonel, as a personal favor, if you would investigate
the transaction I have mentioned."

"Undoubtedly I shall, and that very soon. But about this outrage
committed against the boy himself? We had better take his informations,
and punish the follow."

"Certainly; I think that is the best way. His conduct to the poor youth
has been merciless and detestable. We must put him out of this part of
the country."

"Call the lad in. In this case I shall draw up the informations myself,
although Gregg usually does that."

Jemmy, assisted by the curate, entered the room, and the humane Colonel
desired him, as he appeared ill, to sit down.

"What is your name?" asked the Colonel.

"James M'Evoy," he replied. "I'm the son, sir, of a man who was once a
tenant of yours."

"Ay! and pray how did he cease to be a tenant of mine?"

"Why, sir, your agent, Yallow Sam, put him out of our farm, when my
poor mother was on her sick-bed. He chated my father, sir, out of some
money--part of our rent it was, that he didn't give him a receipt for.
When my father went to him afterwards for the receipt, Yallow Sam abused
him, and called him a rogue, and that, sir, was what no man ever called
my father either before or since. My father, sir, threatened to tell
you about it, and you came to the country soon after; but Yallow Sam got
very great wid my father at that time, and sent him to sell bullocks for
him about fifty miles off, but when he come back again, you had left the
country. Thin, sir, Yallow Sam said nothing till the next half-year's
rent became due, whin he came down on my father for all--that is, what
he hadn't got the receipt for, and the other gale--and, without any
warning in the world, put him out. My father offered to pay all; but
he said he was a rogue, and that you had ordered him off the estate. In
less than a week after this he put a man that married a bastard daughter
of his own into our house and place. Th