Year: 1878

am amazed ct the want of common sense that


seems to run in some fsmiies. bas, & Uy az 4hsn sS


his neighbors-his house was not the Only
olsoe where fortunes were fooled away. We


rode home through oonntry split up 1, INTO PEr


burning the soil, because they've NO manure to


put in, and could not afford to let the ground


lie fallow for q season. I'd heard OF the rum


ous practice before, but could hardly believe 1t


possible till saw the reek Of the emoke along


the hillside. Well, while was expressing pref


ty strongly to your father my opinion OF sucn


system and urging him to make stand


against it, we passed q good-sizsd mansion


house actually in ruins-iron gates swinging


wide on their hinges, and pleasure grounds
sheep feeding where the flower garden had


been. O'Roone rode up to my side, and volnn-


teered to tell me the history Of the last oocuPi-


or of the place. l don't know whether ne
meant ANYTHING in particular by 1t, but 1t was


ust then noticed the look on bis face that
made me wonder whether he really was the
stupid old fogie one takes him for at hrst. any
way, the story sounded like warning, ana
feel q shiver when think of it now, though
perhaps the wetting got in the shower CROSS
ing the lake is to blame for that. Ones meyer


Lynch once lived there. A great friend of your
gran dfathers the old fellow was-imitated him
in all his follies and not having so mnch TO


justify him in extravagance, he died leaving
his affairs in a Worse plight. There were two
sons. The eldest-no more enterp :lslnR than
the most of these Connsught landlords seem
| to be-slunk off to live on q pittance abroad
but the younger was clever lad, who hao
been brought up in England, and he deter
| mined to have a stfuggle to keep the estate In
the family. he persuaded the creditors to lot
him have the management of the property,
| and set to work in good earnest to make the
| tenants pay their rents and do justice to their
| land, or leave it for those who would. He got


on 30 we'll that in about ten years nc nao taa
| scrsped enough money together to pay OFT the
| principal part of the debts. A day was hxed


for a meeting of creditors, and be wrote to ms


brother to come home. But meanwhile be bad
| made himself enemies there was a conspiracy
| against him among the old tenants whom for


their dleness he had been obliged to eject from
| thei, farms. Fourteen rGscals swore TO have
| his life, and on the very evening before the


day when his brother was expected home to


pay off the creditors and take possession OF tn e
| estate when he had lain down to sleep fdll OF


the triumph the next day would erlng, the 10
| with blackened faces, FIRE WAS set to the d2ors'


and he was shot dead as he was trying TO


escape from window. That was the welcome
| the elder brother got when he arrived


at his old homo early in the morning -
| house in ruins, and the dead body OF


his brother stretched before the threshold.


in that fellow o Roone's eyes as he finished his
story-I didn't like it, 1t was great deal too


much like saying, See what comes OF medd-
ling fellows Interfering with the customs OF
the country or course it's no business OF
mine; it's only for your sake, Pelham, my LAD,


that take upon me to advise your fatEer, but


L feel it will come hard upon you. Unless you


grow up different man from what expect,


you will never let things go on as they are
now. You could not do it. And it will be


cowardly thing of your father if he leaves the
onus OF the changes to rest with you, when he
himself has a sort of popularity, that would
help him to carry them Though"


my father could not do cowardly thing,
cried Pelham, blusting hotly. "If he refuses


to make changes, you may be quite sure It II
2 not fear of danger that keeps him back"


; mo, no; don't suppose it is myself, ou
! that is how shall put the case when l tall
: over bis affairs with him, as have promised
a your mother to do on the first opportunity
). When a fit time for such conversation will


come I can't say, for every moment is 80 takeI
' up with pleasure here there is no time for bust
ness. 1t is all agreeable enough. l dom
{ know that l ever was better entertained, o
a had better sport, and shall always say an
1 very glad came and saw it all. understand
! the country now at all events, and know wh,
t it does not prosper. No one ever need talk be
. fore me again of justice to lreland or the nee
8 Of improved legislation: I'll never belleve
. can signify what sort of laws you make for
Z people who expect to get crops out OF the sol
3 without mauurinG it, and who in doubtfu
' weather stand-six or seven of them-gapln
round hay-cart, without attempting to fill II
o rs I've seen since came here. If you coul
a give people common sense and industry b
. law, then there might be some good in talk
q ing"


Now when a man 9 servant shall play the wit
= hm-look you, 1t goes hard,"-LAUNcE.


}, As tho days passed on, Mrs. DAILY began t
fear that her husband, with his usual dispos
d ton to put off evil times, would allow tn
: whole of her brothers visit to expire withou
y | ever permitting himself and his guest foria Sir
9 gle hour to be sufficiently at leisure to give or
n portunity for the conversation on which Oh
It had set her heart. The sunshine and the cloud
|. seemed to conspire against her wishes b
q bringing the kind of weather which gives PEI
10 pie an excuse for saying, I'VE must spend th
b one more day out of doors for, bright as it
o now, there are signs of change coming"
y 1t was q positive relief to her to wake or
@ morning and look out on distance of clou
O. wreaths, which seemed to have blotted lah
It and mountains from the world, and left only
D. narrow circle of sodden road and dreuche
d shrubbery between earth and heaven.


10 Two middleaged men shut into house
is walls of drenchfng rain oonld hardly pass a
z entire day together without getting into di
d course on business matters of some sort ce


tainly not when one of them had such a taller
le for managing his own and his neighbors' affai
re- ns had Sir Charles Pelham.


Of Mrs. Daily saw by the expression on her hu
is bands face, and by the gesture with which
r, threw away the end of his cigar on the doc
Sk,h hoo r.