He gives, and can be got to give, no reason for this; but when we drove up he came out to greet us in the most friendly manner.

We went in and found his wife, a shrewd, sharp-eyed, little old dame, with whom * * * * fell into a confabulation, while I went into the next room with the labourer himself.

The house was neatly furnished--with little ornaments and photographs on the mantel-shelf, and nothing of the happy-go-lucky look so common about the houses of the working people in Ireland, as well as about the houses of the lesser squires.
I paid him a compliment on the appearance of his house and grounds.
"Yes, sir!" he answered: "it's a very good place it is, and * * * * has built it just to please us." "But I am told you want to leave it ?" "Ah, no, that is not so, sir, indeed at all! We've three children you see, sir, in America--two girls and a boy we have." "And where are they ?" "Ah, the girls they're not in any factory at all.

They're like leddies, living out in a place they call * * in Massachusetts; and the lad, he was on a farm there.

But we don't know where he is nor his sisters any more just now.