Mrs. Broderick: (Coming in.) I declare I’m as comforted as Job coming free into the house from the Court!
Nestor: Well, indeed, ma’am, I am well satisfied to be able to do what I did for you, and for my friend from Africa as well, giving him so fine and so handsome a bird.
Mrs. Broderick: Sure Finn himself that chewed his thumb had not your wisdom, or King Solomon that kept order over his kingdom and his own seven hundred wives. There is neither of them could be put beside you for settling the business of any person at all.
(Sibby comes in holding up her netted bag.)
Nestor: What is it you have there, Sibby?
Sibby: Look at them here, look at them here.... I wasn’t long getting them. Warm they are yet; they will take no injury.
Mrs. Broderick: What are they at all?
Sibby: It is eggs they are ... look at them. Jackdaws’ eggs.
Nestor: (Suspiciously.) And what call have you now to be bringing in jackdaws’ eggs?
Sibby: Is it ten pound apiece I will get for them do you think, or is it but ten pound I will get for the whole of them?