PRACTICAL INFORMATION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3142, 23 July 1881, Page 4

PRACTICAL INFORMATION.

'What is rack-rent, dad?' inquired a yoimg Comstocker who had been reading the news from Ireland. The parent laid down tho stock list, and replied : — 'Do you know how much I charge Mr Boggarty for his room up stairs ?' ' i r es sir ; $12 a month.' ' Well now, suppose Mr Bogarty should take into his head to have, at his own expense, now paper put on the wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would look a heap sight prettier, wouldn't it ? ' Lor!' murmured tho intelligent boy. ' Well, if the minute Boggarty had got all those improvements made I should go up and look around and smile and jingle my money in my pocket, and remark, ' is a P'-etty good sort of layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too soft a thing. Your rent will wear $20 a month h>re after,' what would you think of it ?' ' The innoennt child giggled and said, ' That would be cheek wouldn't it dad ? 'Bet your money on it, my boy,'replied the father, beaming kindly on his offspring. ' That would be rack-renting Mr Boggarty, and if he kicked, and claimed that all the improvements had been made by him without costing me a cent, and I should fire him out, that would be eviction. I will now,' continued the parent warming up, ' briefly review the history of Ireland for the last 700 years. When Brian Boru i ut his son had fled.