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your riverence, and maybe get your rive- 

 rence brought up before them magistrates ?" 



" Well, I cannot but thank you for your 

 considerateness, Pat : it is just as well I did 

 not know it. But you've made a pretty 

 business of it, after all. Those eight fellows 

 will be hanged if they catch them." 



"Divel a fear of that, your riverence; 

 sure and who'd be swearing agin them ? 

 Didn't Tommy Lightly get off that was 

 taken in the first fight ? and did not every 

 mother's sowl of them, man, woman, and 

 child, know that he was there ?" 



" Well ! a happy deliverance to them," 

 said the Parson ; " and upon my word I 

 think they deserve it. It was very well- 

 behaved of them to let the Peelers off so 

 easily, for their blood must have been up a 

 little after seeing one of their fellows knocked 

 over. I hope that boy is not going to die, 

 though." 



"Divel a fear of that, your riverence. 

 The bullet was clean cut out of his shoulther 

 this morning, and there it is ; I thought 

 your riverence would like to have it." 



" Well, you had better not let any one 

 see this piece of lead," said the Parson, "it 



