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Rh their potato gardens, they had neither seed, nor horses, nor even food, to carry them through the winter. No difference of tenure would have saved them. Had they owned the fee, it would have been all the same. Their only chance of life was to get away—some to the poor-house, others to America. As for the landlord, his position was every whit as bad. It was not a question of rent,