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SEVERAL years passed away, having brought with them several changes.
First, the universal failure of the potato crop all over Ireland utterly ruined many of the hard-working poor men who used to rent Mr. Egerton's fields; and the greater number of them emigrated-the greater number, I mean, of those who did not die of the terrible fever which followed the year of famine.