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crop ; and then, after the arrival of seed-time, 

 pay more for horse-labour, imperfectly performed 

 and out of season, than would have dug and 

 dibbled the whole in a proper manner by task- 

 work. They would also have realised more 

 than double the produce in harvest. It is true 

 the poor tenant wanted food to support him 

 under hard work, and he had no money with 

 which to purchase it. The question, however, 

 starts up, Where got he money to pay for horse- 

 work ? Would not those who gave him credit 

 for the one give him credit for the other? 

 Could he not have got a boll of oatmeal and 

 paid for it in labour as he did his horse-work ? 

 Before such confidence can be established in 

 Ireland, the relation between master and servant, 

 not that of the landlord and tenant, must be 

 changed, as we subsequently shall see. It is 

 one thing to lend a boll of oatmeal, but quite 

 a different thing to lend horse-work, performed 

 at a season when perhaps the horseman would 

 otherwise have been idle. It is one inducement 

 for the small tenant to plough his land, that he 

 gets employment of the farmer who ploughs it. 

 He is often encouraged to do so, and not 

 unfrequently induced to believe, that more 



