Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-09
AT THE GIANTS CAUsEwAY.
An American Visitor Makee an Unfavorabls
Impression Upon the veteran Guide.

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Impression Upon the Veteran Guide.
From the Detroit Free Press
"fis, sor. It's many wan nv cure country
min Olive taken over the Canseway. sor."
How do you know what couatryman amp
Thrust me for knowing the American ac-
cent. sor."
It Go to New York il you don't believe me-
There's many an Oirishman there, I'm
sould, Scr
more than in Dublin
"Do We tell me thot, sor2 Well. sor, OF took
9ineral Grant himself over the Causewsy, and
fine mawn he was. An Gineral sheridan,
too, sor. Many's the great mawn Owe taken
over the Causeway, sor. took the Duke sv
Connaught himsilf down this very road. sor,
and do you know what he saws to me. sor? He
says, Pat SAYS he, have you had anything TO
ate the day. Saving yer prisince. sor.' says
Oh, except q bite at breakfast before the
words we're out Of my mout, says the duke
says he, Sit down wild u.s. says be; an no
sooner said than done, an Oh had moy lunch
with the Duke av Connaught Do ye moind
thot now?
AN Owe taken great professors over the
Causeway. sor-min that knew more IN wan
minute, sor, than you and Oh wud know in all
our loves, sor. Don't you know that there =
nothing IN the whole wurrold loike the Giants
Causeway, sorY''
What for-for mud?'
The road is troine muddy at this time av
the year. sor. It's not many comes to sc il in
the wlntnar time, sor. Indade. you re the FIRST
wan this week. There's power rain in the
! mort of Oireland in the winter tonne, sor."
"How much further away is this Causewayg'
lis it the Causeway. sor? But troife. sor.
4 I'M 70 xrn trlrra hat ranN
sor Sure an begorra it's we'll worth the walk.
Tor Tor there is no place that is as noted as the
Causeway, sor."
Yes. They told me about it at Derry. That's
why came
DE ye name to say. sor. that We niver heard
av the Chant Causeway till We came to Derry?
Well, sor, Olive taken tins of thousands peO-
pie over this ground, sor, and yure the iTss
wan that liver tould me he never heard av The
oanseway: Where we're We brought upg'
I'm Belfast man."
DE We name thot9 Troth! OF don't think
the professors are the biggest loiers, saving
Where's your old Causewsy2 We're round
that rock now.
"Wheres the Causeway. is it, sor? Where
should it be but just before yer two eyes?'
You don't mean that foundation, DO your
''What foundation. sor?r
Looks like if a building society had
started a big stone tabernacle and went bank
The greatest min in this wurrold, sor. tould
me that"
''Never mind what the greatest men said. Il
that the Causeway? That's what / want set
tied
at is sor.-
Lets get back"
Back. is it. sor? Troth. yer not there vet
Dlvli fut will OF go back till we've seen what
IAN, right. Ill go on-under professionally
to please You, you know"
'Ofm afraid yer hard to place yersif sor.
| IT. wan av the Wonders av the wurrold, sor. "
That people come here? II is a wonder.
III bet they don't come a second time"
Now, begin yer pardon. yen wrong there.
sor Not the sickond tonne, but the twintieth
tonne have Oi known educated min to come.
sor. And the aftener man since sees it,
sor, the more wonderful he thinks it. Now.
| sor, We r fut is on the smaller Causeway, and
be careful how you sup, fur it's mighty slip
perry under fut. There are three Causeways.
sor the Great Causeway bein' in the centher
and that well come to in e minute, sor."
What is it used fory'
''The Causevay, is it!'
| sYes."
"Its used for nothin' at all. sor"
Then why did they go to all this expenseT
| "Nh.t expince, sor!'
"The building of it?'
''Be all the powers. sor. it's surely not run
ming through your hid that the Goiant's Cause
way built by the hand OF man. sorr''
.'How was il built then? By contract?"
"Oi plainly OIL hav to begin at the be-
/ ginnin' wia you, sor. 1t was built by a mighty
conyulsion av nathure, sor."
oh, yes, remember reading about it in the
papers at the time. Ii was the beginning of the
| Irish troubles
at was at the b ,ginning of tonne. sor Prof.
Gneiss Of Edinburgh tould me Its origin was
volcanic and that
"Oh, you can't believe what q professor says.
| Was he there?"
He was not"
swell, them
off you, sor, will excuse the liberty Oil
take, sor, In recommending you TO kapt
silence fur few minutes. sor, yen know 8
good dale more when We lave here than whr
We CAME. sor."
"An right; go ahead"
| "These columns, sor. are basaltic.'
"What's thaty'
! "It's a term used by Prof Gnciss Now Oil
call yer attention TO the ind av this column.
| That we call the octagon, meaning eight-sided
as We can see. And if yer measure the eight
sides, sor. yer II feind them the same to u hair
breadth"
And yet you say nobody chiseled it2''
..You evidently think I'll believe anything.
But nc matter. Go on. go on
| Now. if We II notice. around this octagon are
eight other pillars, forming an octagon group,
as call thin here, sor, all the columns being
aqual in size. Now. sor, if We follow me here.
We will see a septagon column, IRON the Latin
word naming swim. and around that there are
swim columns.
Are there any sixtogon ones!'
There Is not. sor.
Its a sort Of seven-by-eight Causeway,
| them"
There sor Oh tould We We would slip down.
sor. A man broke his leg there once. Are ye
| hurt, sor."
Mot in the least
THANK the powers for that. sor. Oh always
notice that the quieter a man kapcs. 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, sor. We see from here the Great Cause
way. Ism that grand soight. sorY''
well. that depends on what you call a.
.'Oh tare an owns. sor. we've kilt yerself
entoirely this tonne. Don't attempt to roise.
sor, till Oh get down to ye. Dear dear Are
ye badly hurt, sorl'
.'Grogsy, but still in the ring. Say, are my
trousers--
They are torn a little, sor, Oh regret to saw "
"Why the old Harry didn't you tell me this
place slippery Do yoa want to break q
mans neck over this Causeway OF yoursr'
''Sure. sor. Oi warned We the very first a 60
Begin you re pardon. sor, ii ye'd pay as much
attintion to yer fut you do to your
tongue
who's been doing all the talking? Have
opened my mouth since We started? Well now
that we're down here. what's there to see?'
"You see these columns sor. They're the
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