His rent was paid punctually, and always with country bank-notes--none of your clean, newfangled cheques, or Bank of England crisp paper, but soiled, greasy country notes of small denomination.
Farmer M---- never asked for a return or reduction of his rent.

The neighbours said that he was cheaply rented: that was not true in regard to the land itself.

But he certainly was cheaply rented if the condition of the farm was looked at.

In the course of so many long years of careful farming he had got his place into such a state of cultivation that it could stand two or three bad seasons without much deterioration.

The same bad seasons quite spoiled the land of such of his neighbours as had relied upon a constant application of stimulants to the soil.