with his board; but it's seldom he gets it." "And what has he for his board ?" "Oh, stirabout; and then twice a week coorse Russian or American meat, what they call the 'kitchen,' and they like it better than good meat, sir, because it feeds the pot more." By this I found he meant that the "coorse meat" gave out more "unctuosity" in the boiling--the meat being always served up boiled in a pot with vegetables, like the "bacon and greens" of the "crackers" in the South.
"And nothing else ?" "Yes; buttermilk and potatoes." "And these wages are the highest ?" "Oh, I know a boy got 5s., but by living in his father's house, and working out it was he got it.

And then they go over to England to work." "What wages do they get there ?" "Oh, it differs, but they do well; 9s.

a week, I think, and their board, and straw to sleep on in the stables." "But doesn't it cost them a good deal to go and come ?" "Oh no; they get cheap rates.

They send them from Galway to Dublin like cattle, at L2, 5s.

a car, and that makes about 1s.6d.a head; and then they are taken over on the steamers very cheap.