text:  Now though it is a just cause of regret that we do not see better homesteads and better fences in Ireland still we cannot admit that the tenant's being obliged to keep such as exist in repair can be any great hardship in a pecuniary point of view as he lays out scarcely any thing on them: he does not even expend his own labour on their improvement; and his time which might be profitably occupied in this way is wasted in useless idleness in swelling the train or cheering the ferocious sentiments of some mercenary agitator