"'Mornin', Meester Mackay, and may the Lord love yees.'
"'Good morning, madam.'
"'How's the beautiful wife and the charmin' childers over the big wathers, Mr. Mackay?'
"'They are all right.'
"'God be thanked intirely. Does yees know, Mr. Mackay, that in the hull course of me life I niver laid eyes upon childer so beautiful loike yees. Often and often I've tould the ould man that same. And they're will, are they?'
"'Yes, they are first-rate. I had a cable from them yesterday.'
"'A tilligram, was it? Oh, but is not that wonderful, though! A missige under the say and over the land to this barbarous place. It must have come like the smile of the Good God to yees.'
"'Oh, I get them every day.'
"'Ivery day! And phat do they cost?'
"'Oh, seven or eight dollars; sometimes more. It depends upon their length.'