de
of the jaunting-car and Eileen sat between them. Michael and Mr
McQueen were on the other side with Larry. The small bags and bundles
were put in the well of the jaunting-car.

"Get up!" cried Dennis, and off they started. Mrs McQueen looked back
at the old house, and cried into her new shawl. Grannie was crying,
too. But Michael said, "Wait until you see your new home, and sure,
you'll be crying to think you weren't in it before!" And that cheered
them up again, and soon a turn in the road hid the old house from their
sight forever.

The luggage was heavy, and Colleen was slow. So it took several hours
to reach the railroad. It took longer, too, because all the people in
the village ran out of their houses to say good-bye. When they passed
the schoolhouse, the Master gave the children leave to say good-bye to
the Twins. He even came out to the road himself and shook hands with
everybody.

But for all that, when the train came rattling into the station, there
they all were on the platform in a row ready to get on board. When it
stopped, the guard jumped down and opened the door of a compartment. He
put Grannie in first, then Mrs McQueen and the Twins. They were
dreadfully afraid the train would start before Mr McQueen and Michael
and all the luggage were on board.

It was the first time Grannie had ever seen a train, or the Twins
either. But at last they were all in, and the guard locked the door.
Larry and Eileen looked out of the window and waved their hands to Mr
Maguire and Dennis. The engine whistled, the wheels began to turn, and
above the noise the Twins heard Dennis call out to them, "Sure, I'll be
coming along to America myself some day."

"We'll be watching for you," Eileen called back.

Then they passed the station, and were soon racing along over the open
fields at what seemed to poor Grannie a fearful rate of speed.

"Murder! murder!" she screamed. "Is it for this I left my cabin? To be
broken in bits on the track like a piece of old crockery! Wirra, wirra,
why did I ever let myself be persuaded at all? Ochanee, but it is
Himself has the soothering tongue in his mouth to coax his old Mother
away for to destroy her entirely!"

Michael laughed and patted her arm, and "Whist now," he said, "sure, I'd
never bring you where harm would come to you, and that you know well.
Look out of the window, for 'tis the last you'll be seeing of old
Ireland."

Grannie dried her eyes, but stil