34 My Little Farm 



thing of the kind in the United Kingdom, 

 though the profit of it is more obvious than the 

 painting. 



I might have had a visit from the German 

 Emperor, for I and he are the only two men I know 

 in Europe doing anything like this with land ; but 

 I fear my Imperial colleague is at present absorbed 

 in pursuits more unpleasant to himself and less 

 worthy of the higher crown we ought to share. It 

 is a loss that he cannot come over, because I find 

 on comparing notes that he has much to learn 

 from me, though the bag stuff which I have found 

 most useful has all come from Germany, and 

 cannot be got anywhere else. In his capacity as 

 farmer, he attacks his moor in the German way, 

 with any amount of method and patience, but 

 with strikingly less intelligence than we have 

 shown in Mayo, assisted by the potash of Stassfurt. 

 Accordingly, I have much more economic results 

 to show, though there are circumstantial grounds 

 for believing that His Imperial Majesty has been 

 somewhat more satisfactorily supplied with capital. 

 Perhaps that is the reason he is less satisfactorily 

 rewarded in dividends. Prussia has had a good 

 deal of such moor as we meet here in the West of 

 Ireland, but the area is narrowing now, since other 

 German capitalists have followed the example of 

 their Emperor in reclamation. They and their 

 Emperor together have not done as much in this 

 way for Germany as I have done for Ireland, 

 though they have attracted more than twice as 

 much attention. The United IrisU League does 



