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said he ; "he has got every net regularly 

 pitched again already. There is the back 

 line glittering in the sun, and the stakes all 

 right again, with the tide bobbing and rip- 

 pling against them, just as usual. These 

 poor fellows have got themselves into trouble 

 for nothing, I am afraid ; the coast is just as 

 much blockaded as ever it was." 



" How one adopts the feelings of the 

 country," said the Parson. "I cannot help 

 siding with those fellows. I enjoyed Micky's 

 triumph over the sergeant as much as any 

 one. 



"And why the devil should not you?" 

 said the Squire. 



" Why, it was a breach of the laws and a 

 destruction of property," said the Parson. 

 " Hector's nets ruin the river, and I wish 

 they were a step beyond Connemara ; but he 

 has a great right to put them there." 



" A legal right or a moral right ? " said 

 the Squire. 



" Both," said the Parson. " He has a 

 legal right, because the Act of Parliament 

 does not forbid it ; and he has a mora! 

 right, because he has made a discovery in 



