“Yes.”
“It’s used for nothin’ at all, sur.”
“Then why did they go to all this expense?”
“What expinse, sur?”
“The building of it.”
“Be all the powers, sur, it’s surely not running through your hid that the Goiant’s Causeway was built by the hand av man, sur!”
“How was it built, then? By contract?”
“Oi see plainly Oi’ll hay to begin at the beginnin’ wid you, sur. It was built by a mighty convulsion av nathure, sur.”
“Oh, yes, I remember reading about it in the papers at the time. It was the beginning of the Irish troubles.”
“It was at the beginning av toime, sur. Professor Gneiss, av Edinburgh, tould me its origin was volcanic, and that——”