He must have found time to think of it during the day, and to talk it over with Aunt Hannah, too, for, wonder of wonders, before they went to bed that night it had been decided that Uncle Tom should take the whole family up to the North of Ireland the next week, to meet Uncle Jerry Barry, and to have a look at the Giant's Causeway. CHAPTER XVI THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY "Stand still now, while I count you once more," directed Aunt Hannah, as they stood at the street corner in Portrush waiting for the electric tram-car to take them down to the Giant's Causeway. "No matter how many times I count you, there's always one missing. Deena, look out for Columba. Kathleen, stand there by your brother;" and Mrs. Malone took Victoria firmly by the hand and gathered the children closer together lest one should stray away before they could all be safely settled in the car. "Everyone looks at us as if they thought we were crazy," said Hannah. "Do you remember the man in Dublin who said, 'There's a big man with a big family'?" "He was wishing himself in my place, I'm thinking," said her father with fond pride, as he looked over his rollicking brood; "and it takes a big family to see a big city, for everyone sees something different." "We saw a good deal of Dublin for one day, even if Kathleen and Feena did get lost," said Connie, taking Feena's hand to keep her from getting lost again. "It was easy to get lost in O'Connell Street," replied Feena. "There were so many lovely things in the shop windows that I just thought I'd go inside to see more." "Here comes the car," shouted Columba, and in a moment all the younger Malones were scrambling in, to get seats by the window, while the older ones followed more slowly. "I wonder where Father is," Kathleen said, as the car ran along through the center of the little town. "I've looked for him everywhere this morning." "Perhaps he will meet us at the Giant's Causeway," suggested Danny. "Uncle Tom wrote to him that we would be there to-day." "Then we will be going over to see Mary Ellen to-morrow," said Kathleen with a little sigh of happiness, and she folded her hands in her lap and sat for a long time looking quietly out of the window. "The sea! the sea!" cried Columba, as the car rounded a curve in the road, and there lay before them the blue waters of the Atlantic. Immediately there was the greatest excitement among the children. "Think of our never having seen the ocean before!" exclaimed Feena, "and our little green island is all surrounded by it." "Don't be calling your own country little," Deena reproved her. "Faith, we could whip the whole world before breakfast if we'd put our minds to it." "There's the sea again," called Columba. "See how white the chalk cliffs look, where the sun is shining on them." "There were chalk cliffs in Tonroe," Kathleen told him, "but they were not so high as those, and they didn't have such wonderful shapes."