Nestor: (Faintly.) Is it what you are going to say they are jackdaws!
Cooney: I followed your directions....
Nestor: How do you make that out?
Caoney: You said the mill chimneys were full of them....
Nestor: What has that to do with it?
Cooney: I left my rake after me broken in the loft ... my hat went away in the millrace ... I tore my coat on the stones ... there has mortar got into my eye....
Nestor: The Lord bless and save us!
Cooney: But there is no man can say I did not bring back the birds, sound and living and in good health. Look now, the open mouths of them! (All gather round.) Three of them safe and living.... I lost one climbing the wall. ... Where now is the man is going to buy them?
Sibby: (Pointing at Nestor.) It is he that can tell you that.
Cooney: Make no delay bringing me to him. I’m in dread they might die on me first.