een discovered to have paid on account a trifle more than
Griffith's valuation, has been compelled to ask his landlord to give
him the little balance back and a receipt in full. The request was
acceded to, for the poor man declared that his life was not safe; that
nobody would speak to him, and that nobody would work for him until he
had righted himself with "the only Government which can carry its
decrees into effect."

The 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade has just arrived from Gibraltar, under
the command of Colonel Carr Glyn, and will remain, together with the
26th Regiment, under Colonel Carr, and three troops of the 3rd Dragoon
Guards, in Cork. The 37th Regiment leaves to make room for the Rifle
Brigade; three companies go to Waterford, and the remainder to
Kilkenny.

XVI.

A CRUISE IN A GROWLER.

CORK, _December 21._

Just before starting towards the scene of the last case of Boycotting
I had returned from a tour in Kerry, undertaken mainly with the object
of collecting facts and ideas concerning the fiercely-debated question
of peasant propriety. There are other great estates in Kerry besides
that of Lord Kenmare, which is twenty-six miles long, and covers
91,080 acres. There are Lord Lansdowne's still greater estate of
94,983 acres, and the large property held by Trinity College, both of
which have given rise to considerable controversy of late.

In many parts of Kerry may be found townlands vying in wretchedness
with Coshleen and Champolard, with Derryinver, Cleggan, and Omey
Island while others give abundant evidence of improvement and
enlightened management. On the north side of Dingle Bay lies the
estate of Lord Ventry, a popular landlord I am told, for the reason
that he has not "harassed his tenants" with improvements, nor sought
to wipe out the effect of the old middleman style of mismanagement by
reducing their number and forcing them to live in habitations better
perhaps than they care for. The crowding of people into a few
villages, brought about partly by the desire of middlemen to make a
profit, partly by electioneering schemes, and partly by the natural
gregariousness of the peasants, has been already too fully dwelt upon
to need repetition. What was done by landlords and middlemen in many
places has been emulated by squatters wherever they have succeeded in
occupying free land like the Commons of Ardfert, the condition whereof
rivals that of Lurgankeale, in Louth, and of the historic tow