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The attempt to evict the
Coigeach crofters must also be mentioned. Here the people made a stout
resistance, the women disarming about twenty policemen and
sheriff-officers, burning the summonses in a heap, throwing their batons
into the sea, and ducking the representatives of the law in a
neighbouring pool. The men formed the second line of defence, in case
the women should receive any ill-treatment. They, however, never put a
finger on the officers of law, all of whom returned home without serving
a single summons or evicting a single crofter. 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. |
