Marty's father, tenant-farmer on the Farwell farm, was steady enough and dependable, but never one to get ahead much.

Mothers of the South, portraiture of the White tenant farm woman.

Needless to say their tenant-owners keep them in the most immaculate condition.

He will get work enough, hard, physical work, if only in trotting up and down the steep stairs of tenant-houses, to keep his digestion in tolerable order.

They were Celts, Catholics, and men of the tenant class to a man; and their whole experience of the British Government had been an inexorable landlord, and a constabulary who seemed to them to be always on the side of the rent-collector.

And herein was I not mistaking; for to-day every tenant hath paid with a cheerful countenance.

Here, too, these little spade-farmers are put under the same regime as the great tenant agriculturists of the country.

When a tenant deserts premises, leaving one half-year's rent in arrear, possession may be recovered by means of the police-court.

"You've heard what my tenant rascals have done?" he grunted, settling in his chair and stretching his fat legs.

He holds this by a 'tenant right,' and cannot be dispossessed as long as he pays his rent regularly.

No one can imagine the commotion that existed at the cabins on the tenant row near the stream.

"All round it storms of trouble blow, And waves of sorrow roll; Cold waves and winter storms beat through, And pain the tenant-soul.

They then tried all systems of working on shares in the cotton districts; but this was finally abandoned because the planters in some cases were not able to advance the Negro tenant supplies, pending the growth of the crop, and some found the Negro too indifferent and lazy to make the partnership desirable.

"Do you know much about tenant law?"

Is that so?" "Walter," said Colonel Clifford, "have you a farm to let?" "Not at present, sir; but one will be vacant in a month, unless the present tenant consents to pay thirty per cent.

He stays in the same cottage on the same farm all his life, his descendants remain and work for the same tenant family.

Until his twenty-eighth year, Robert Burns was an ordinary laborer on one or another of the Ayrshire tenant farms which his father or brothers leased.

Where the farmer's horse cannot climb with the plough, or the little sheep cannot graze to advantage, human hands plant the Scotch larch or fir, just as a tenant-gardener would set out cabbage-plants in odd corners of his little holding which he could have no other use for.