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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
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