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about with a gun which he is apt to leave about loaded 

 in odd corners inside the house, till his youngest 

 brother, Jack, who combines a playful disposition with 

 a keen sense of humour, finds it and cannot resist the 

 performance of the time-honoured jest of full cocking 

 it, pointing it at the head of his little sister, pulling the 

 trigger, and scattering her brains against the wall. 

 Anyhow, no one has been bold enough to assert that 

 this Act has benefited or could ever benefit the tenant. 

 It has, as was possibly intended, injured the landlord, 

 and created a bad feeling here and there, no doubt, 

 between him and his tenant, as was possibly, for 

 political reasons, also intended ; but that it has ever 

 done, or ever can do, good to either class is, as is now 

 well known, an impossibility. 



The Farmers' Alliance, a political organisation in 

 which real farmers are not represented at all — the 

 three points of whose charter seem to be, i, farms rent 

 free ; 2, landlord to do the repairs ; 3, tenant to have 

 the shooting — may possibly approve of it, but only on 

 account of the political and actual injury which it may 



