This remittance, from America yesterday, for example." "Do they send such remittances without being asked for them ?" I inquired.
"Yes; they are now and again sending money, and some of them don't send, but bring it.

Some of them go out to America now as they used to go to England--just to work and earn some money, and come back.
"If they get on tolerably well they stay for a while, but they find America is more expensive than Ireland, and if, for any cause, they get out of work there, they come back to Ireland to spend what they have.
Naturally, you see," said Father M'Fadden, "they find a certain pleasure to be seen by their old friends in the old place, after borrowing the four pounds perhaps to take them to America, coming back with the money jingling in their pockets, and in good clothes, and with a watch and a chain--and a high hat.

And there is in the heart of the Irishman an eternal longing for his native land constantly luring him back to Ireland.

All do not succeed, though, in your country," he said.

"We hear of two out of ten perhaps who do very well.