But why didn't you stay in North Brookfield ?" "Oh, it was a poor country indeed! A blast of wind would blow all the ground away there was! It does no good to the people, going to America," he said; "they come back worse than they went!" He is at work now in some quarries here.
"The quarrymen get six shillings a week," he said, "with bread and tea and butter and meat three times a week.

With nine shillings a week and board, a man'll make himself bigger than * * *!" "Was the country quiet now ?" "This country here?
Oh! it's very quiet; with potatoes at 3s.6d.

a barrel, it's a good year for the people.

They're a very quiet people,"-- in corroboration apparently of which statement he told me a story of a coroner's jury called to sit on the body of a man found on the highway shot through the head, which returned an unanimous verdict of "Died by the visitation of God." This country is dominated by the Rocky Hills climbing up to Cullenagh, which divides the Barrow valley from the Nore.

We drove this afternoon to * a most lovely place.