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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: forty. A crowd of these miserable ejected creatures collected around us, bewailing, with bitter lamentations, their hard fate. One old grey-headed man came tottering up to us, bearing in his arms his bed-ridden wife; and, putting her down at our feet, pointed in silent agony to her, and then to his Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: forty. A crowd of these miserable ejected creatures collected around us, bewailing, with bitter lamentations, their hard fate. One old grey-headed man came tottering up to us, bearing in his arms his bed-ridden wife; and, putting her down at our feet, pointed in silent agony to her, and then to his roofless dwelling, the charred timbers of which were scattered in all directions around. This man said he owed little more than one year's rent, and had lived in the village, which had been the home of his forefathers, all his life. Another man, with five motherless children, had been expelled, and their "boiling-pot" sold for 3s. 6d. Another family, consisting of a widow and four young children, had their only earthly possession, " a little sheep," seized, and sold for 5s. 6d! But it is needless to multiply cases; instances sufficient have been given to show the hardships and misery inflicted. From this village alone, at least one hundred and fifty persons had been evicted, owing from half a year's to a year and a half's rent. What prospects are there lor these miserable outcasts? Death indeed must be the portion of some, for their neighbours, hardly richer than themselves, were principally subsisting upon turnip-tops; whilst the poor-house of the Union at Westport is nearly forty miles distant. Turnips taken- can we say stolen? from the fields, as they wearily walked thither, would be their only chance of support. Some indeed would never reach their destination-death would release them from their sufferings, and the landlord from his burden. This was the case in one instance, a few days before my visit. .A strong active man was found dead from exhaustion on the road side, within a short distance of a house, which he had vainly endeavoured to reach. Whilst Books, History~~General, A-Visit-to-Connaught-in-the-Autumn-of-1847~~James-Hack-Tuke, 999999999, A Visit To Connaught In The Autumn Of 1847, James Hack Tuke, Created by Central Relief Committee of the Society, 1144164710, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

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