Go down to the store at Bunbeg, and see what they buy and go in debt for! You won't find in any such place as Bunbeg in England such things.

And even this don't measure it; for, you see, two-thirds of them are not free to deal at Bunbeg." "Why not?
Is Bunbeg 'boycotted' ?" "No, not at all.

But they are on the books of the 'Gombeen man'-- Sweeney of Dungloe and Burtonport.

They're always in debt to him for the meal; and then he backs the travelling tea-pedlars, and the bakers that carry around cakes, and all these run up the accounts all the time.

Tot up what these people lay out for tea at four shillings a pound--and they won't have cheap tea--and what they pay for meal, and what they pay for interest, and the 'testimonials,'-- they paid for the monument here to O'Donnell, the Donegal man that murdered Carey,--and the dues to the priest, and you'll find the L700 or so they don't pay the landlord going in other directions three and four times over." "Then they are falling back into all the old laziness, the men sauntering about, or sitting and smoking, while the women do all the work." The maid having told us Mass would be performed at noon, I walked with Lord Ernest a mile or so up the road to Derrybeg, to see the people thronging down from the hills; the women in their picturesque fashion wearing their bright shawls drawn over their heads.