Mrs. Broderick: (Taking Nestor’s arm.) Get it back for me I tell you! There it is above in the ash tree, and it flapping its wings on a bough!
Nestor: Give me the cage, if that will content you, and I will strive to entice it to come in.
Cooney: (Coming in.) Everyone running this way and that way. It is for birds they are looking sure enough. Why now would they go through such hardship if there was not a demand in some place?
Nestor: (Pushing him away.) Let me go now before that bird will quit the branch where it is.
Cooney: (Seizing hold of him.) Is it striving to catch a bird for yourself you are now?
Nestor: Let me pass if you please. I have nothing to say to you at all.
Cooney: Laying down to me they were worth nothing! I knew well you had made up some plan! The grand adviser is it! It is to yourself you gave good advice that time!
Nestor: Let me out I tell you before that uproar you are making will drive it from its perch on the tree.
Cooney: Is it to rob me of my own money you did and to be keeping me out of the money I earned along with it!
(Threatens Nestor with “Moore’s Almanac,” which he has picked up.)