Major Sinclair Yeates takes a post as Resident Magistrate in the west of Ireland, imagining a dignified country life with his new wife Philippa. Instead he gets a crumbling house, a horse-trading landlord named Flurry Knox, illicit races, fox-hunts that go wrong and a population far cleverer at evasion than he is at enforcement.
Linked comic stories from 1899 that remain among the funniest ever written about Anglo-Irish life. Download the free EPUB.