DEVLIN
Does it keep good time?
NAGLE
'Tis the best timekeeper that ever was.
DEVLIN (places watch to his ear) It has a good strong tick, anyway. I'll give you the ten shillin's for it. Here you are.
NAGLE (takes the money) Thank you kindly, though it nearly breaks my heart to part with it.
DEVLIN Life is made up of comin' and goin', and what we lose to-day we may gain to-morrow, and lose again the next day.
NAGLE One man's loss is another man's profit, and that's how the world keeps movin'.
DEVLIN True. And there's no use in being alive unless we can help each other. Sure 'tis for each other, and not by each other, that we should live.
NAGLE 'Pon my word, but to know how to live is the greatest problem of all.
DEVLIN That's so. Sometimes 'tis foolish to be wise and other times 'tis wise to be foolish, but the sensible man will always look out for himself and let his friends look after his enemies.
NAGLE Every word you say is true, but I must be goin' or I'll lose the train. So I'll bid you good-by and good luck.