They had no boats; and it cost eighteenpence a load to haul it from Bunbeg.

No! they couldn't get it off the rocks.

At the Rosses they might; the Rosses were not so badly off as Derrybeg or Gweedore, for all they might say." "But Father M'Fadden had urged me," I said, "to see the Rosses, because the people there were worse off than any of the people." "Well, Father M'Fadden was a good man; he was a friend of the people; and they were bad indeed at the Rosses, but they could get the sea-stuff there, and hadn't to pay for cartage.

And indeed, if you put the sea-stuff on the bogland, the land was better in among the rocks' at the Rosses than was the bogland, it was indeed: the stuff did no good at all the first year.

The second and the third it gave good crops--but then you must burn it--and by the fourth year and the fifth it was all ashes, and no good at all! This was God's truth, it was; and there must be relief." "But could the people earn nothing in Scotland or in Tyrone ?" "Oh no, they could earn nothing at all.