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From the KaiekaeockT, 0og 1fcy.)
Pairck's Letter to his kinsfolk.
By the Author Of Sayings and Doings al the
fremont House."
New YORK, April 3, 1888.

my dear brother, we have got here at
last. Oh, OF all born places in the big
world, America is the land for the poor
and disolate man to come to. Barring
ould Ireland, it's the paradise of the
earth. We'd a pleasant passage enough,
save now and then, when the sea put
on airs, and made.a big swell of itself.
No deaths on board, except two pigs,
H five sheep, and twenty two fowls, which
were llkilt to find grave in the stom.
achs OF the cabin passengers. Our
father bore the passage mighty well,
considering his grey hairs; but Lion
| (poor dog) didn't seem to like his berth
at all at all. lie suffered much from
l say-sickness, and barked a good dale
at nights, but twas moonlight, and,
| you know, he never could abide the
moon. Well, New York is (barring
Cork the city of the universal world.
/ There's street in it, Thady called
Broadway, which runs five miles and
a half, and then don't stop; and tho
beautifuliest pigs ever you layed your
eyes on, running through the streets,
| without an owner, and as the sergeant
told Barney, (true enough squealing
as IT they were saying, "Come and
catch me-" rs full of handsome shops,
and iligant ladies'. Oh, Thady, Thady,
! if we want to see delicate shapes, coal
black eyes, and nate ANGLES, you must
come to New York. BY the powers,
the bare sight Fem has made the ould
man quite young again. Only think!
he said to me yesterday, Ctwas after
dinner "Pat," says he, 81 hear there's
a bushel OF fresh widows in this town;
and PLACE goodness, III be afiher CIV
ing we second modher, my lad, be.
fore long" Ha! ha! Thady, how odd
lif we should get an American mother,
and We trims, too! We have put up at
a boarding house, in the upper part Of
the city, tor twas there, the captain
sald, they let lodging chapest,) and find
ourselves comfortable enough. There
are more than twenty fellow boarders,
to keep us company, and we go on as
REGULARLY and plisantly together, as if
we We're playing a game of leap-frog.
There is one ouid gintleman who has
taken fathers heart intlrely; he'd had
mine, too, but his daughter, the deli
cate little thief, stole it before him.
Poor little Alice-the cratur Thady,
to fill up my sheet, I'll tell you NOR
sci of a story about little Alice. From
/ the first, then, it was quite apparent,
both to father and myself, that some
thing was continually breaking the dear
innocent's heart. There she sat-at
dinner, and at tay, and at breakfast,
so woful and melancholy, that it made
ones eyes ache to look at her. AS
pale, Thady, she was--ay, as pale as
a new laid egg; and look from her
large, dark eyse, showed you that des
pair had appropriated them TO him.
SELF, for looking.glasses. You know
Il Thady, where the fair sex is concern
ed, I'm mighty finder subject. My
heart is sure to take fire at the sight
of one of the sweet sowls, and so did
my fathers before me-if our poor
mothers word, and there's no earthly
reason for doubling it, sto be believed.
4 ! was nightly concerned for this
sweet cratur, and | longed to know
the cause other grief. May be- thought
|, 'she may be wishing for husband
why mott And thcn--but recol-
lected the VOW of fidelity gave to my
) own dear Norah across the big wa
/ theirs, and said TO myself, "Charity
Pat, charity, should always begin at
, home. Her father--his name, by
the way, is Whipple-wassorely afraid
that she was going into consumption,
or getting liver complaint; and FREE
f quent and long were the chats he had
with father and myself touching poor
little Alice's supposed ailments. But
il wasn't consumption, Fhady, nor a.
ny soreness about the liver that affec-
ted her. There was no need to feel
, her pulse to find out that. You could
, see in her eyes that il was her heart
which was constantly sending out sig
! nails Of distress, and / made up my
f mind, to find out, ifpossible, the cause.
r. Well, yesterday morning, / happened
! to enter her private sitting room, to re-
, turn book which the ould gintleman
had lent to father, when ! found the
young lady engaged in sitting for her
picthur, to as smooth checked brush
, handler as you'd like TO see on the o.
, Their side. By the holy Saint whose
| name bear, | saw how it was in
, shake, which is one less than brace
, of 'em;-the two sowls were loving one
another, Thady, without knoriag IL;
or, may be, if they did not know it,
, they reckoned, no doubt, that ould