Subletting was almost universal, three or four persons standing often between the landowner and the actual occupier, the result being that the condition of the latter was one of chronic semi-starvation.

Here are some lines from a damp but undefeated lover in the trenches: Though the glittering knight whose charger Bore him on his lady's quest With an infinitely larger Share of warfare's pomp was blest, Yet he offered love no higher, No more difficult to quench, Than the filthy occupier Of this unromantic trench.

As regards the last two, it has been pointed out with some force that the one practically does away with the other, the only person benefited being the immediate occupier, at whose departure that fierce competitive desire for the land which is the real root of the whole difficulty being allowed freer play than ever.

Possessor N. possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession &c 777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee^; zemindar^, ryot^; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.

Our travellers were surprised to find that the house of the poet was inhabited by a very different tenant to the rustic occupier they had anticipated.