But we did get it, after a spell.
"It seems that the girl--her whole name was Margaret Sullivan--had been in this country but a month or so, havin' come from Ireland in a steamboat to meet the feller who'd kept comp'ny with her over there.

His name was Michael O'Shaughnessy, and he'd been in America for four years or more, livin' with a cousin in Long Island City.

And he'd got a good job at last, and he sent for her to come on and be married to him.
And when she landed 'twas the cousin that met her.

Mike had drawn a five-thousand-dollar prize in the Mexican lottery a week afore, and hadn't been seen sence.
"So poor Margaret goes to the cousin's to stay.

And she found them poor as Job's pet chicken, and havin' hardly grub enough aboard to feed the dozen or so little cousins, let alone free boarders like her.