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must have had a terrihle fight — were there 

 many hurt ? " 



"Not a man on either side. That was 

 the cleverness of it — not so much as a cut 

 finger among them all. That Micky Rowan 

 is a regular village Wellington." 



" You have heard the story, then?" said 

 the Captain. 



" Every hit of it ; and if you will give me 

 the wing of that fowl — thank you — and a 

 slice of oread and some salt, I will sit down 

 and tell you the whole of it. I dare say 

 your followers are as anxious to hear it as 

 you are." 



" I dare say our hoys will most of them 

 he able to set you right if you make any 

 mistake in the telling," said the Captain, 

 turning round upon them with a significant 

 look ; but there was no answering look of 

 intelligence from any one of them. 



Paddy is not communicative before a large 

 company, and whether they could or could 

 not set the Barrister right, or whether they 

 had heard one word of the story before, or 

 even whether they cared about it, was a 

 thing altogether impossible to be divined 

 from their looks. 



