“You evidently think I’ll believe anything. But no matter. Go on, go on.”
“Now, if ye’ll notice, around this octagon are eight other pillars, forming an octagon group, as we call thim here, sur, all the columns being aqual in size. Now, sur, if ye follow me here, ye will see a septagon column, from the Latin word maning siven, and around that there are siven columns.”
“Is there any sixtogon one?”
“There is not, sur.”
“It’s a sort of seven-by-eight Causeway then?”
“There, sur, Oi tould ye ye would slip down, sur. A man broke his leg there once. Are ye hurt, sur?”
“Not in the least.”
“Thank the powers for that, sur! Oi always notice that the quieter a man kapes, the more attention he can pay to his futin’.”
“And you’re paid to do the talking, too. I hadn’t thought about that.”
“Now, sur, ye see from here the Great Causeway. Isn’t that a grand soight, sur?”