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William Carleton. The Tithe-Proctor
The Tithe-Proctor
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PREFACE
CHAPTER I.—The Chapel Green of Esker Dearg
CHAPTER II.—The Proctor's Principles and His Family
CHAPTER III.—Mountain Legislation, and its Executive of Blood
CHAPTER IV.—Mirth and Murder—A Tithe-Proctor's Office
CHAPTER V.—A Hang-Choice Shot—The “Garrison” on Short Commons
CHAPTER VI.—Unexpected Generosity—A False Alarm
CHAPTER VII.—A Shoneen Magistrate Distributing Justice
CHAPTER VIII.—An Unreformed Church
—The Value of Public Opinion—Be not Familiar with the Great
CHAPTER IX.—Sport in the Mountains
CHAPTER X.—The Sport Continued
CHAPTER XI.—The Sport Still Continued
CHAPTER XII.—Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
CHAPTER XIII.—Strange Faces—Dare-Devil O'Driscol Aroused
CHAPTER XIV.—State of the Country
—O'Driscol rivals Falstaff—Who Buck English was supposed to be
CHARTER XV.—Scene in a Parsonage—An Anti-Tithe Ringleader
CHAPTER XVI.—Massacre of Carrickshock
CHAPTER XVII.—Midnight Court of Justice
—Sentence of the Proctor and His Sons
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William Carleton
The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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