Excerpt from The Wild Irishman York was the friendlier. I am informed that, broadly speaking, New York is policed by Irish Americans and that the American Irish man makes a rather useful subordinate municipal oflicial. Be this as it may, there can be no doubt that very considerable num bers of Irishmen contrive to do themselves a great deal better in the United States than they could ever have hoped to do in their own native Erin. To those Americans and American Irish who happen to be at all in terested in the present condition and pros pects of the green country, I venture to offer the following pages for what they are worth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.