“Oh, you can’t believe what a professor says. Was he there?”
“He was not.”
“Well, then!”
“If you, sur, will excuse the liberty Oi’ll take, sur, in recommending you to kape silence fur a few minutes, sur, ye’ll know a good dale more whin ye lave here than ye did whin ye came, sur.”
“All right; go ahead.”
“These columns, sur, are basaltic.”
“What’s that?”
“It’s a term used by Professor Gneiss. Now Oi’ll call ye’r attention to the ind av this column. That we call octagon, meaning eight-sided, as ye can see. And if yer measure the eight sides, sur, yer’ll foind them the same to a hair’s breadth.”
“And yet you say nobody chiselled it?”
“Oi do, sur.”