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accommodation value whicli it returns to the occupier 

 quite different from land in the country. 



Father O'Leary knew these facts and others, and 

 by suppressing them he made that appear true which 

 he knew was false. I think his conduct will not be 

 approved by his Church. 



I have never raised any man's rent except at 

 long intervals of thirty-one years or his life. I fix the 

 rent carefully on my own judgment, taking fully into 

 account the tenant's backwardness and want of skill. 

 If after two or three years I think him still over- 

 weighted, I do some improvement on a barn or cow- 

 house that adds to the value of his farm. There is, 

 of course, endless talk ; but I have never known an 

 industrious man to fail on my valuation. 



W. B. J. 



December 12, 1880. 



