THOUT THEIR WHISKY.

--It is usual with some landlords to give their inferior tenants a glass
of whisky when they pay their rents. Thady calls it THEIR whisky; not
that the whisky is actually the property of the tenants, but that it
becomes their RIGHT after it has been often given to them. In this
general mode of reasoning respecting RIGHTS the lower Irish are not
singular, but they are peculiarly quick and tenacious in claiming these
rights. 'Last year your honour gave me some straw for the roof of my
house and I EXPECT your honour will be after doing the same this year.'
In this manner gifts are frequently turned into tributes. The high and
low are not always dissimilar in their habits. It is said, that the
Sublime Ottoman Forte is very apt to claim gifts as tributes: thus it is
dangerous to send the Grand Seignor a fine horse on his birthday one
year, lest on his next birthday he should expect a similar present, and
should proceed to demonstrate the reasonableness of his expectations.

GLOSSARY 5. HE DEMEANED HIMSELF GREATLY--

Means, he lowered or disgraced himself much.

GLOSSARY 6. DUTY FOWLS, DUTY TURKEYS, AND DUTY GEESE.--

In many leases in Ireland, tenants were formerly bound to supply an
inordinate quantity of poultry to their landlords. The Editor knew of
thirty turkeys being reserved in one lease of a small farm.

GLOSSARY 7. ENGLISH TENANTS.--

An English tenant does not mean a tenant who is an Englishman, but a
tenant who pays his rent the day that it is due. It is a common
prejudice in Ireland, amongst the poorer classes of people, to believe
that all tenants in England pay their rents on the very day when they
become due. An Irishman, when he goes to take a farm, if he wants to
prove to his landlord that he is a substantial man, offers to become an
ENGLISH TENANT. If a tenant disobliges his landlord by voting against
him, or against his opinion, at an election, the tenant is immediately
informed by the agent that he must become an ENGLISH TENANT. This threat
does not imply that he is to change his language or his country, but
that he must pay all the arrear of rent which he owes, and that he must
thenceforward pay his rent on that day when it becomes due.

GLOSSARY 8. CANTING--

Does not mean talking or writing hypocritical nonsense, but selling
substantially by auction.

GLOSSARY 9. DUTY WORK.--

It was formerly common in Ireland to insert clauses in leases, binding
te