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paid, or possible to be paid, evictions, and a 

 people, ready to be affectionate to the point 

 of servility, directed to the path of revolt and 

 murder. 



Those are two bad cases. On the other side 

 might be instanced Lord Dunraven's estate, not 

 very far, as motors go, from the last mentioned. 

 Here is a landlord who takes a living interest 

 in his tenants. His home farms are models of 

 good culture. All sorts of new crops are being 

 experimented with, including a large area under 

 tobacco. The cottages are clean and roomy ; 

 their open windows tell of wholesome habits 

 inculcated. Perhaps ultimately, in the scheme 

 of closer settlement, this place will disappear as 

 an estate and be broken up into small holdings. 

 If so, there will be in some respects a loss to the 

 country, a loss of the organizing ability of a 

 progressive man using a large capital in ex- 

 periment and in new enterprise. 



Still more to be regretted from a sentimental 

 point of view will be the loss of such landlords 

 as one near Kinsale, whose manor house I 

 visited. This manor house and its beautiful 

 woods crown a lofty hill close by the Atlantic. 



