That the tenants as a body have been, or now are, unable to pay their rent he does not believe.

On the contrary, he thinks them, as a body, rather well off.

Certainly I have seen and spoken with none of them about the roads to-day who were not hearty-looking men, and in very good case.

Colonel Dopping, according to my Galwegian, is not an Englishman, but a Longford Irishman of good family, who got his training in India as an official of the Woods and Forests in Bengal.

"He is not a bad-hearted man, nor unkind," said my Galwegian, "but he is too much of a Bengal tiger in his manner.