The man did not care to be referred to Mr. Matthews; and to give some colour to his pretensions, produced three different notes, with the names of his grace's commissioners put to them, expressing that he was to pay only a chiefery out of the lands of Shragh, and directing Mr. John Bagot the receiver to suspend the rent till further order.

We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous.

'What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and criticize, while people who know what they want snatch it away from us and laugh.” “Perhaps you are that sort. I’m not. When the moment comes I shall hit out like any ploughboy. …"

so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.