Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-01
AT TIE GIANTS CAUsEwAY.
An American Visitor Makes an Unfavor-
able Impression on the Veteran Guide.

way NNI-
"How do you know what countryman
I amp"
Thrust me for knowing the Ameri-
can accent, S0r.
Ell haven't the American accent. You
have IT, Go 20 New York, if you don't
believe me"
There's many an OiriShman there
I'm ,ould sor.'
.'N0re ,han in Dublin
.'Do yoc tell nae thOt, SOr? Well, sOr,
Obi took Gjncral Grant himself over the
CauSeway, and fine mawn he was. An
GinerG sheridan, too, sOr. Many'S the
great mawn GIVE taken over the Cause
way. sCr took the Duke av Con-
nauctt himself down this very road,
sOr. and do you know what he says 10
me. ~or lie says, Pat, says he, have
you bad any TO eat the day?' Saving
yer urs.acc, sor, says Oi, except bite
10 breakfast'-au' before the words We're
out Of my mOut', says the Duke, says
he. $50 down wild us. says ne; an no
sooner said than done, an OF had moi
mucl with the Duke NV COnnaught.
De So mO.ud thOt, now
.Au Owe taken great professors
over lhc Cluseway, sOr-min that knew
NOR, . wan minute, SOr. than you and
OF wul know in an our loves, Sor.
DOM you know that there's nothing in
the whole wurrold ioike the Goiant'S
Ca-scway. sor:'
"Wdl, for? For nude
'.Fue road is troide muddy at this
time av the year, SOr It's not many
comes 90 see it ia the WHITTIER tonne,
sor. iudade, yure the first wan this
wee6 There's q power ay rain IN the
mort OF Oirelaud i'm the winter tonne,
sor
Glow much further away 5 this
-a.scway2'
~Is IL the CauSeway. Sor? But a
tro.fe. sor Yen see 10 the minute we
turn shat bit av rock, Sor. Sure an
begorra It's well worth the walk, for
there is no place that is as noted as the
Cau>owGy, SOr.
..Yes They told me about il at
Derry. That's why | came
"ne Sc name 20 say, Sor, that ye nlVer
hc av the Giants CauSeway till We
. , to Derry Well, Sor, Oi've taken
"a thousands av people over this
ouad, sor, and yuce the first wan that
ive- tould me he never heard OF the
CauSoway Where were ye brought up
"Tm Belfast man.
'De We name thOt? Troth OF don't
think the professors are the biggest
loiers. saving yer presence, Sor.
Where's your old CauSeway ? We're
round that rock now.
Where should it be but just before yer
TWO eyes o.
"You don't mean that foundation, DO
you
What foundation, Ser ~
..LCoks like as il building society
had started a big stone tabernacle and
went bankrupt when the foundation
was laid"
''The greatest min in this wurrold'
s1r. uould me that
Never mind what the greatest men
said. Is that the CauSeway? That's
what I want settled.
''It is, SOr,
Lets get back
Back. is it, sor? Troth, yer not
There vet. Divil fut will OF go back
tl' we've seen what We paid for, Sor.
All right, I'm 20 on-under protest
merely TO please you, you know. "
+OTm afraid yer hard TO place yerSilf,
sor. It's wan av the wonders aV the
wurrold, Sor.'
n "That people.come here? Ii is Won
der I'm bet they don't come second
time
Now, begin yer pardon, yer
wrong there, SOr. Not the Sickond
toime. but the twintieth tonne have Oh
known educated men TO come, SOr. And
the oltener man av since sees II, Sor,
the more wonderful he thinks 1t. Now,
sor. yer fut is on the smaller Causeway,
aud be careful how you slip, fur IT'S
moighty slippery uudher fut. There are
three CausewayS, sor, the Great Cause
way 0ein in the centher, and that we'll
come 90 in a minute, SOr.
what is it used fOr2'
The CauSeway. IS it2'
Yes"
-Irs used for nOthin' at all, SOr.
Then why did they 90 to all this eX-
penSe?'
''What eXpince, SOr?'
The building OF it,
BE all the powers, sor, it's surely
not running through your hid that the
Goiant's Causeway was built by the
hand av man, Sor2'
How was it built, then? by con-
troct?'
~Oi see plainly Orll hav to begin at
the beginnin' wild YOU, SOr. 1t was built
bv mighty convulSiOn av nathure Sor. -
"Oh. YES, I remember reading about
n in The papers az the time. 1t was the
beginning of the Irish troubles.
..It was at the beginning of tonne,
sor Prof. Gneiss, of Edinburgh, tould
me It's origin was volcanic, and that
.Oh. You can't believe what a pro-
fessor saws. Was he there?'
He was not.
..WeN, then.
..rf Won. sor. vii. excuse the liberty
O,'u take. sor, i'm recommending you TO
kane silence, fur a few minutes, Sor'
vo'r know good dale more when ye
lave here than whin We came, Sor.
An right; go ahead
THESE columns, Sor, are balSatic.'
Whats that?' c-.-.
..Its a term used by Prof.. GhelSS,
Now Orll call yer attention to the mo
M this column. That we call the octa-
con. meaning eight-sided, as ye can see
And II yer measure the eight sides sor,
vcr'u foind them the same to hair
breadth. ,..,,
And you say nobody cbizelled it?'
"Ol do, Sor."
,.vou evidently think I'll believe any
thing. But no matter. TO on go on
Vow. il VEN notice, around TINS oc-
t,oon are eight other pillars, forming