150 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



could find in that one county more men fit to be 

 Lord Chancellors than in all the other counties of 

 Ireland put together. Come and dine with me to- 

 day and we'll talk the matter over with some 

 friends." I could not accept the invitation. I did 

 not ask Sir J. Gray ; but I asked the Eagle of the 

 Fag an bealachs, a famous Mayo regiment, and I 

 give its evidence on pages 153-158. 



A group of six Dublin carmen, who for years saw 

 thousands of the reapers pass through the streets 

 in numerous bodies, " agreed among themselves 

 that some are small, some six feet high, but the 

 run of them is between 5 feet 7 and 5 feet 8, and 

 fine, hardy men, better than ourselves." Several 

 railway porters at Broadstone Station, who had 

 seen thousands upon thousands of them, being asked 

 separately, gave the heights 5f. 8, 5f. 7^, 5f. 7, 

 5f. 6|, 5f. 6, 5f. 8|, 5f. 9 inches. Several loungers 

 (some of whom were ex-soldiers) and coal-porters on 

 the quays, gave the heights as from 5f. 5 to 5f. 10. 

 A policeman, who had been stationed on or near 

 the North Wall for fourteen years, said: "They 

 are smaller than the County Dublin men, but I 

 would not admit that they are not as good as the 

 City of Dublin people ; they look queer on account 

 of their dress, but are fine, hardy men ; of fair 

 hair, a few of red, and a few of dark hair." One 



