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affects you, is it ? I see my agent was right
in saying that you were a hardened reprobate."
" Please your honour," cried the farmer, " I beg
your pardon for laughing, but I could'nt help it
when I was thinking that I had a bit of writing
about me from the same hand that goes nearer the
truth. Will your honour be just after throwing
your eye over that paper ? and he respectfully
handed the certificate of his character, signed by
the Duke's agent, to the Duke. Nothing could ex-'
ceed the surprise of the Duke of Devonshire to find
that the poor farmer was painted both clevil and
angel by the same artist. He ordered that his te-
nant should be made as comfortable as possible—
renewed the leases on the most desirable terms to
the farmer—insisted upon paying all the ex-
penses incurred in consequence of the proceed-
ing, and said to his tenant, " Now, my friend,
don't you say one word to any body about
what you have done, until the Sheriff goes to
turn you out of your farm; but the moment
he does, show him these leases, and give this letter
to my agent, whom I request in it not to annoy you
any more." The farmer, after a hearty blessing
upon his Honour's head, showed London and
Bristol, too, his hack in a very short time, and he
appeared amongst his family and neighbours as it
he had been just after shipping a few dozen of pigs.
When he received the notice to quit, he tranquilly
lighted his pipe with it ; and when, at the expected
time, the agent and the Sheriff appeared, he was
amusing himself with his children. " Holloa !"
said the agent, " you must turn out; you have had
due notice, and out you must go this instant."—
" Arrah, then, you wouldn't be zo cruel as to put
out all the childer ?" blubbered out the farmer.
" That I will," replied tha agent; " Sheriff, do your
duty." " Well, stay a bit," said the farmer, " don'
be in such a devil of a hurry ; the Duke told me
that you were over-anxious to serve him."
" The Duke! what Duke 1:t" cried the tei•
rifled agent. " Why his Honour the Duke
of Devonshire, to be sure. By the same token 11,
told me to give you this bit of a note." It wouli
be hard to describe the condition of the agent upon
reading the communication, " Oh !" said tlin
farmer, " if you doubt the writing, here's the nest
leases which his Honour put into my own hands,
God bless him, signed by himself. I can tell yot:
that he knows your writing, for he compared thr
two characters you were so good as to give me."
The letter of the agent, who was, we understand
one employed under the principal agent of the Dokt
on the Southern ft ish Estates, was a dismissal.
He had intended the farm, which is a very snug our,
for his brother,

Many Irish gentlemen at Brighton, who heard o
the above circumstances, declare that they behev,
numberless acts of oppression of the kind are corn•
milted by the agents of the great Absentee Lorth
who never chew their faces in Ireland.