_Nally:_ Why wouldn’t I want it? Why wouldn’t I have leave to catch a bird the same as every other one? _Nestor:_ And what would the likes of you be wanting with a bird? _Nally:_ What would I want with it, is it? Why wouldn’t I be getting my own ten pounds? _Nestor:_ Heaven help your poor head this day! _Nally:_ Why wouldn’t I get it the same as Mrs. Broderick got it? _Nestor:_ Well, listen to me now. You will not get it. _Nally:_ Sure that man is buying them will have no objection they to come from one more than another. _Nestor:_ Don’t be arguing now. It is a queer thing for you, Tommy Nally, to be arguing with a man like myself. _Nally:_ Think now all the good it would do me ten pound to be put in my hand! It is not you should be begrudging it to me, Mr. Nestor. Sure it would be a relief upon the rates. _Nestor:_ I tell you you will not get ten pound or any pound at all. Can’t you give attention to what I say? _Nally:_ If I had but the price of the trap you wouldn’t refuse it to me. Well, isn’t there great hardship upon a man to be bet up and to have no credit in the town at all. _Nestor:_ (_Exasperated, and giving him the cage._) Look here now, I have a right to turn you out into the street. But, as you are silly like and with no great share of wits, I will make you a present of this bird till you try what will you get for it, and till you see will you get as much as will cover its diet for one day only. Go out now looking for customers and maybe you will believe what I say. _Nally:_ (_Seizing it._) That you may be doing the same thing this day fifty years! My fortune’s made now! (_Goes out with cage._) _Nestor:_ (_Sitting down._) My joy go with you, but I’m bothered with the whole of you. Everyone expecting me to do their business and to manage their affairs. That is the drawback of being an educated man! (_Takes up paper to read._) _Mrs. Broderick:_ (_Coming in._) I declare I’m as comforted as Job coming free into the house from the Court! _Nestor:_ Well, indeed, ma’am, I am well satisfied to be able to do what I did for you, and for my friend from Africa as well, giving him so fine and so handsome a bird. _Mrs. Broderick:_ Sure Finn himself that chewed his thumb had not your wisdom, or King Solomon that kept order over his kingdom and his own seven hundred wives. There is neither of them could be put beside you for settling the business of any person at all. (_Sibby comes in holding up her netted bag._) _Nestor:_ What is it you have there, Sibby? _Sibby:_ Look at them here, look at them here.... I wasn’t long getting them. Warm they are yet; they will take no injury. _Mrs. Broderick:_ What are they at all? _Sibby:_ It is eggs they are ... look at them. Jackdaws’ eggs. _Nestor:_ (_Suspiciously._) And what call have you now to be bringing in jackdaws’ eggs? _Sibby:_ Is it ten pound apiece I will get for them do you think, or is it but ten pound I will get for the whole of them?