Nestor: Well, listen to me now. You will not get it.
Nally: Sure that man is buying them will have no objection they to come from one more than another.
Nestor: Don’t be arguing now. It is a queer thing for you, Tommy Nally, to be arguing with a man like myself.
Nally: Think now all the good it would do me ten pound to be put in my hand! It is not you should be begrudging it to me, Mr. Nestor. Sure it would be a relief upon the rates.
Nestor: I tell you you will not get ten pound or any pound at all. Can’t you give attention to what I say?
Nally: If I had but the price of the trap you wouldn’t refuse it to me. Well, isn’t there great hardship upon a man to be bet up and to have no credit in the town at all.
Nestor: (Exasperated, and giving him the cage.) Look here now, I have a right to turn you out into the street. But, as you are silly like and with no great share of wits, I will make you a present of this bird till you try what will you get for it, and till you see will you get as much as will cover its diet for one day only. Go out now looking for customers and maybe you will believe what I say.
Nally: (Seizing it.) That you may be doing the same thing this day fifty years! My fortune’s made now! (Goes out with cage.)
Nestor: (Sitting down.) My joy go with you, but I’m bothered with the whole of you. Everyone expecting me to do their business and to manage their affairs. That is the drawback of being an educated man!
(Takes up paper to read.)