. Three weeks in the British Isles . Then we askhim what a jaunting car to Leenane will cost he leaves the room and comes back with afigure. We accept. This process is repeated whenever any in-formation is needed, and the joke of it is that thetimid head waiter is the proprietor of the hoteland dodges in and out simply to shift the respon-sibility for exorbitant rates to the shoulders of animaginary employer. All this we learn later. Our room is a joke, but not a funny one. Wetake turns sitting in the only chair that will bearour weight. We commence to make demandsand have the apartme
. Three weeks in the British Isles . Then we askhim what a jaunting car to Leenane will cost he leaves the room and comes back with afigure. We accept. This process is repeated whenever any in-formation is needed, and the joke of it is that thetimid head waiter is the proprietor of the hoteland dodges in and out simply to shift the respon-sibility for exorbitant rates to the shoulders of animaginary employer. All this we learn later. Our room is a joke, but not a funny one. Wetake turns sitting in the only chair that will bearour weight. We commence to make demandsand have the apartment fairly well furnished bybedtime. There is no lock on the door when wearrive, but we are promised that one will be puton later. A bulletin board at the end of the street reads: A schedule specifying the toll, custom andduty claimed by the Marquis of Sligo on theseveral articles sold in the town of Westportaccording to the statute in that case provided. Then follows a list from which we quote, trans-lating the money into cents: 3. Westport and Connemara Country 231 Peddlers stand, 18 cents to 24 cents. Bakers stand, 24 cents. Hardware stand, 24 cents. Herring stand, 18 cents to 24 cents. Hatters stand, 24 cents. and so on through all the trades and sorts of mer-chandise. Milch cows, per head. 12 cents. Dry cows and bullocks, 8 cents. Horse, 12 cents. Calf, ass or mule. 8 cents. Cabbage per cwt., 24 cents. and so on. This may not be operative now, but it wasoperative once and so recently that the sign isclear and distinct, and it makes the blood was the tribute exacted, not by the King, butby the Marquis of Sligo. Court sits to-morrow, and a factor and ten or adozen tenants are grouped around the hotel en-trance arguing the terms of renewal for someexpiring leases. There seems to be an irrecon-cilable difference of five shillings to the factor offers to reduce the old rate fourshillings to the pound. The tenants are holdingout for a nine-shilling reduction.
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