But it's the sons, Mr. Pindar,-thechildher that changes us.

Bless you, me childher, may you be happy, she says.

There's a great comfort in childher, and when they grow up we lose them anyway.

The childher come up yisterday and got them while you'd be down at the counting-room.

And all the wishes good childher make on May Eve are sure to come thrue.

It's a foine sthring o' childher ye have, Mrs.

Could ye be buyin' a home for childher an' dogs for the price of a penny?

May yer wife clave to you all her days, and be a good mother to your childher.

I have not got the pay for the spriggin' this month, an' the childher are needin' food.

And the rest, who were mere babies when you went away, are now grown into fine, hearty childher.

It's mighty little uv any other man's money-notenough, troth, to get bread for the childher-havewe seen.

Shure, the childher are in bed, and ye'll be waking them up and sending them into fits, the darlints.

I can't face Mary an' her childher aginan'sayIlift hermanwidout Christianburial. -Howldyersowl !

Sure the redskins is as toired as us, and gone home to the wives and childher, bad cess to thim.

Och hone!" she cried, wringing her hands, "masther dear, why will you lave the wife and the childher?

An' a single man can't be bothered with cast-off childher, no matter how big his heart is, as we well know.