title: The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office
author:  Harry M. Caudill 
description: "The stories shine. . . . More important, they celebrate people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today."<i>Washington Post</i>
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  # The Tithe-Proctor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Carleton
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I.—The Chapel Green of Esker Dearg.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.—The Proctor's Principles and His
  
  
  Family.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.—Mountain Legislation, and its
  
  
  Executive of Blood.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.—Mirth and Murder—A Tithe-Proctor's
  
  
  Office.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.—A Hang-Choice Shot—The “Garrison” on
  
  
  Short Commons.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.—Unexpected Generosity—A False Alarm.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.—A Shoneen Magistrate Distributing
  
  
  Justice.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.—An Unreformed Church
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.—Sport in the Mountains.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.—The Sport Continued.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.—The Sport Still Continued.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.—Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.—Strange Faces—Dare-Devil O'Driscol
  
  
  Aroused
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.—State of the Country
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.—Massacre of Carrickshock
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.—Midnight Court of Justice
  
  
  
  
  
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