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another boat or two, put off from the shore 

 in greater numbers, and then lay on their 

 oars, as if waiting for further reinforcements. 

 Information of this, with a request for more 

 policemen, was forthwith sent to head- 

 quarters ; upon which the whole force, with 

 Hector and Mr. Stipendiary at their head, 

 moved forward. The boats now put off 

 together, and attempted to force the passage, 

 and a constant fire, as constantly returned, 

 was kept up briskly, and renewed at inter- 

 vals for an hour or two ; indeed until a 

 light was shown on one of the heights over 

 Kildoney, when the boats were finally re- 

 pulsed. The boys then quietly dispersed, 

 and the police returned rejoicing to their 

 barracks; but on arriving there, they at 

 once discovered the whole drift and in- 

 tention of the plan, for in their absence 

 another and much smaller party had quietly 

 crept down from an opposite direction, had 

 taken possession of the nets, and had totally 

 destroyed them, and the boats, and the gear, 

 and everything connected with the fishing 

 establishment — leaving Hector, as I said 

 before, just as much personal property as he 

 stood upright in." 



