“Yes. They told me about it at Derry. That’s why I came.”
“De ye mane to say, sur, that ye niver heard av the Goiant’s Causeway till ye came to Derry? Well, sur, Oi’ve taken tins av thousands av people over this ground, sur, and yure the first wan that iver tould me he never heard av the Causeway. Where were ye brought up, sur?”
“I’m a Belfast man.”
“De ye mane thot? Troth! Oi don’t think the professors are the biggest loiers, saving yer prisince, sur.”
“Where’s your old Causeway? We’re round that rock now.”
“Where’s the Causeway is it, sur? Where should it be but just before yer two eyes?”
“You don’t mean that foundation, do you?”
“What foundation, sur?”
“Looks like as if a building society had started a big stone tabernacle, and went bankrupt when the foundation was laid.”
“The greatest min in this wurrold, sur, tould me that——”