text:  As a specimen of our author's style when he becomes jocose and of his veracity when he describes the conduct of Irish landlords we give a graphic sketch representing the mode of letting land in the sister country-- "Fancy a 'lord of the soil' (a petty one 'tis true) walking with a bevy of bidders _humbly_ following him after obtaining a bid of money far beyond the value from one exciting the others to outbid in duty rent thus:--'Well Mich you hear what Pat bids; now what will _you_ advance?'--'Why yer honer God knows it's more than the value but I'll give yer honer three days turf-drawing