26 A LIFE'S WORK IN IRELAND. 



all through the famine, I have never had a single 

 instance among my own tenants, or among my 

 neighbours', of an industrious, honest tenant who 

 has failed or lost his land. I have seen honest, 

 idle fellows fail, and one or two industrious scamps 

 from their own scheming. Wonderful as it may 

 seem, a good tenant is as valuable to a middling or 

 bad Irish landlord as to another, and he knows it. 

 And there are very many Irish landlords who are 

 neither bad nor middling. 



I have omitted to say that all sheep and cattle 

 produce, including dairy, has been for years from 

 50 to 100 per cent higher than it was fifteen years 

 ago in Ireland, partly from improved markets, partly 

 from improved communications, partly from im- 

 proved quality. 



My books and land are open to any one who 

 thinks well to look into the above statements. 



