It seems a very reasonable thing, a prize for the best kitchen garden among the crofters and fishermen--I'm quite sure Miss Stanley would give such a prize.
And who was to put the croftersand cottars out of the deer-forest over there in the Lews?
She did not want to hear from Mr. Purdie, or from anybody else, what neighbouring landlords might think, or what encouragement it might give the crofters to make other and more impossible demands.
Meall-na-Cruagan divided amongst the crofters of this district, and the tax for the dyke taken off the rent.
To change the crofters into small farmers would be a fine thing, no doubt--an excellent thing, a great reform; and it would pay the landlords well if it were practicable.
Matters, however, were not really mended, and in 1884 a royal commission reported upon the condition of the crofters of the islands and mainland.
Sheep-farming on a large scale was next introduced, and the crofters were thrust into villages or barren corners of the land.
The crofters here are very comfortable and happy, and their houses and crofts are models of what industry, thrift and good taste can effect.
The proceedings of her subordinates fortunately came to the ears of the noble proprietrix, with the result that the Coigeach tenants are still where they were, and are to-day among the most comfortable crofters in the north of Scotland.
The arable portion of Leckmelm was about the best tilled and the most productive land in possession of any crofters in the parish.
Five years previous to the evictions, all the crofters came under a written obligation to the proprietor to build new dwelling-houses.
The attempt to evict the Coigeach crofters must also be mentioned.
The crofters of Finnart were ejected in the same way.
To avoid the breach being healed by an apology, many of the crofters sought to envenom the quarrel by refusing to believe that the elder was altogether right.
In Sutherlandshire, I saw a large van, with placards and specimens of Canadian produce, being driven through Strath Halladale, to tempt the crofters over the deep.
You may breathe freely, you and your Cabinet, for spite of your slips and blunders, the Ross-shire crofters will not turn round and rend you.
It is not a difficult task, by means of suitable selections, to bring home to an audience of crofters the salient differences between the poetry of Pope and of Spenser.
All along the beach fishermen and crofters were hard at work hauling up spars and barrels as fast as they were tossed ashore.
It is wine they drink in France, as I heard tell from the time I was the height of a Lorne shoe, and who ever heard of crofters drinking wine?
It is certain there are nocrofters in France, whatever," said William-the-Elder.
But they set an example to many of their fellows, and the remarkable spectacle was witnessed in more than one barrack room of these stalwart crofters engaged in family prayer.
Many of the croftersbelong to families which have lived on the same holdings for generations.
Such a measure of relief will not make all the crofters contented and prosperous.
The ruins of cottages, or patches of green here and there where cottages stood, mark the sites of many little holdings from which the crofters and their families were turned out many years ago in order to make room for sheep-farms.
Formerly the crofters used large tracts as summer pastures for their small herds of inferior stock.
The process of clearing off the crofters went on for many years.
The dwellings of this class and of some of the poorer crofters are wretched in the extreme.
It was these slopes that the crofters commonly used for pasture, below which, in the straths and glens, were their holdings and dwellings.
The traditions of the hardships and sufferings endured by some of these evicted crofters are still kept alive in the prosperous homes of their children and grandchildren on this side of the Atlantic.
The accounts of the poverty and wretchedness of the crofters now reach the public much more quickly and make a much deeper impression on all classes than they did forty years ago.
Now it was a Lowlander from Teviotdale that saw the man, and the crofters were delighted.
However, there was a resolute minority of crofters on the side of the minister, and every chance of an ecclesiastical battle royal.
Shetland as a beach let, but the tenants or small crofters who want to eke out their incomes can cure fish, or rather dry them, for themselves on paying perhaps 1s.
Do you mean that that charge has been made by the crofters against you?
That is quite within my knowledge, because our firm have paid it to more than twenty small crofters who have been drying fish for us, and they have then had to pay it to their landlord or tacksman.
They have still their old holdings, and so have the crofters in most cases.
Your little ancestors used to smell out, or perhaps I should say feel, the safe places when they went to the peat bogs with the crofters to get fuel.
I know my ancestors used to help the crofters with their work, notably in carrying panniers of peat.
There is that question about thecrofters at the Truach-Glas," Mr. Shaw said.
The Truach-Glas crofters have been up and down twenty times.
Some of them were on lands but recently acquired, and the crofters in particular were a burden transmitted by purchase, which the father of the last lord had made.
There's those poor crofters that will have to be put out of their bits of places to-morrow.
The crofters would at once perceive that Ogden, M.
Who is to make roads, to begin with--even if the crofterswere mad enough to imagine that they could send their handful of produce away to the distant markets with any chance of competition?
For one thing, he is over two years in arrear with his rent; and that of itself, according to the Crofters Holding Act, forfeits his tenancy.
Why, before I came to Lochgarra I made up my mind that I would try to find out about the crofters who had gone away or been sent away, and I would invite them to come back and take up their old holdings.
The sheriff has granted a decree of removal; but I don't think Macdonald will go; while it is just possible the other crofters may back him up.
The crofters took the crofts knowing of this condition, and the rents were fixed accordingly.
She will call on the crofters to arise in their wrath and demand that of every stag killed two haunches must be delivered over to them, the remaining two to be retained by the landlord.
She is quite sure that the crofters are grateful to her for their lowered rents and all that.
For several years the crofters in this section of the Highlands had been ejected in ruthless fashion from their holdings.
Where many crofters had once tilled the soil, only a lone shepherd was now found, meditating on scenes of desolation.
However that may be, I'm not sure that the Orkney crofters would welcome such a new line of business.
Man, Davie," interrogated one of the crofters in a broad Orkney dialect, "where has thoo been wandering sae lang?
With the old men he would laugh over the jokes of days that had been; tell them how laird had gone to law with laird, or how poor crofters had been evicted from their holdings for failing to pay their taxes or their rents.
Anyway, I have more respect for the crofters and for their poor families than to think of starting such a damnable traffic; nor am I in the least disposed to turn a schooner of mine into a floating grog shop.
What for would I tak' spirits to the crofters when the poor folk canna more than pay for their bannocks?
The houses of the crofters are certainly undergoing gradual improvement, but the majority cling tenaciously to the type of dwelling their fathers occupied before them.
In 1883 a Royal Commission inquired into the condition of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and islands of Scotland.
Bruachaig above Kenlochewe; but there is a considerable extent of ground the pasturage of which is held by the crofters and by some smaller farmers, all of whom, both crofters and farmers, possess a number of sheep.
Besides their arable land the crofters have the right of grazing cattle and sheep on specified areas of moorland, or "hill" as it is called.
Very few of the crofters have gardens worthy of the name, so that, of course, they lose the advantage of green vegetables and fresh fruits.
Everywhere the relics of trees are to be seen to this day, and much of the timber used by Gairloch crofters in roofing their dwellings and for other purposes consists of branches found underground.
Now she went out to Australia, partly on private business, partly to seek assistance for her crofters and acquire lands on which they might settle in the New World.
At the end of her tour she collected L70 towards the defence of the crofters about to be tried at Inverness, and for this notable service she was presented with an address signed by the member for Skye and others.
Meanwhile his wife had espoused the cause of the crofters of Skye.
People who have never heard ofcrofters and their troubles can tell you all about St. Columba and his miracles.
One year of famine, to keep thecrofters from starving, he emptied his own purse.
It was here, about Uig, on the estates of Captain Fraser, that crofters rebelled in 1884 as those of Lewis are rebelling to-day.
He can afford to ignore the Campbells of the Outer Hebrides; but let him fight with his deadliest weapons against the crofters who to-day pay him rent.
Some of our critics have been good enough to inform us that crofters were never turned off their crofts to make room for deer.
What did it profit the crofters that Macleod became for their sake a bankrupt?
The crofters of Tiree have given trouble even as have those of Skye and Lewis.
This is the extravagance with which the crofters have been reproached.
In three cases at least crofters were turned from their crofts because they gave evidence to the Commissioners of 1883.
In some cases the Commissioners appointed for the purpose have lowered the extortionate rents which crofters have been starving for years to pay.
If this be so, if crofters of to-day, compared to their ancestors, live in luxury, then has the time indeed come when something should be done for them.
I will be a real old Land Leaguer every time," he declared; and then he went on to tell us that in his part of the island the crofters held together like one man.
I made such a success of the Crofters that I could raise a million to-morrow for any crack-brained scheme I liked to put my name to.
The crofters have quite enough pasture now for their stock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crofters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
