They are always after the local lawyer with half-a-crown to fight this, that, or the other question with some neighbour or kinsman, usually a kinsman.

So the solicitors know the whole country." "When the League has chosen a spot in which to work the 'Plan of Campaign,' the local attorney whips up the tenants to join it.

The poorer tenants are the most easily pushed into the plan, having least to lose by it.

But the lawyer takes the well-to-do tenants in hand, and promises them that if they yield to the patriotic pressure of the League, and come to grief by so doing, the landlord will at all events have to pay the costs of the proceedings.

It is this promise which finally brings down most of them.