“But thar’s no use for me to go down, I tell you. You go down, and get them to come up.”
“Och, sure an the businiss won’t allow thim to come up at all, at all.”
“O, yes, it will. ’Tain’t likely they have anything so dreadful important but what some of them can come here.”
“But I tell ye this businiss must be transacted on the wharf,” said Pat, earnestly. “It’s on the wharf it must be done, so it is.”
“The wharf? I don’t see that exactly. What is the business?”
“Why, why—it’s—it’s a kind av a—a—tis-timonial, sure; an there you have it.”
“A testimonial?—railly—wal, now, that’s rail kind. But couldn’t the boys come up here—or postpone it?”
“Sorra a bit of that same culd they do,” said Pat. “It’s all got to be done on the wharf, and this evenin so it has.”
“On the wharf?”
“Sure, it’s jist that same, so it is.”