ack--a shriek
of murther! murther--crack, crack, whack)--my life--my life--(crack,
crack--whack, whack)--oh! for the sake of the living Father!--for the
sake of my wife and childher, Ned Hallaghan, spare my life.'

"'So we will, but take this, any how'--(whack, crack, whack, crack).

"'Oh! for the love of. God, don't kill--(whack, crack, whack).
Oh!'--(crack, crack, whack--dies).

"'Huzza! huzza! huzza!' from the O'Hallaghans. 'Bravo, boys! there's one
of them done for: whoo! my darlings! hurroo! the O'Hallaghans for ever!'

"The scene now changes to the O'Callaghan side.

"'Jack--oh, Jack, avourneen--hell to their sowls for murdherers--Paddy's
killed--his skull's smashed! Revinge, boys, Paddy O'Callaghan's killed!
On with you, O'Callaghans--on with you--on with you, Paddy O'Callaghan's
murdhered--take to the stones--that's it--keep it up, down with: him!
Success!--he's the bloody villain that: didn't show him marcy--that's
it. Tunder-an-ouns, is it laving him that way you are afther--let me at
him!'

"'Here's a stone, Tom!'

"'No, no, this stick has the lead in it. It'll do him, never fear!'

"'Let him alone, Barney, he's got enough.'

"'By the powdhers, it's myself that won't: didn't he kill
Paddy?--(crack, crack). Take that, you murdhering thief!'--(whack,
whack).

"'Oh!--(whack, crack)--my head--I'm killed--I'm'--(crack--kicks the
bucket).

"'Now, your sowl, that does you, any way--(crack,
whack)--hurro!--huzza!--huzza!--Man for man, boys--an O'Hallaghan's
done for--whoo! for our side--tol-deroll, folderoll, tow, row,
row--huzza!--fol-deroll, fol-deroll, tow, row, row, huzza for the
O'Callaghans!'

"From this moment the battle became delightful; it was now pelt and welt
on both sides, but many of the kippeens were broken: many of the boys
had their fighting arms disabled by a dislocation, or bit of fracture,
and those weren't equal to more than doing a little upon such as were
down.

"In the midst of the din, such a dialogue as this might be heard:

"'Larry, you're after being done for, for this day.' (Whack, crack.)

"'Only an eye gone--is that Mickey?' (whick, whack, crick, crack.)

"'That's it, my darlings!--you may say that, Larry--'tis my mother's
son that's in it--(crack, crack,--a general huzza.): (Mickey and
Larry) huzza! huzza! huzza for the O'Hallaghans! What have you got,
Larry?--(crack, crack).

"'Only the bone of my arm, God be praised for it, very purtily snapt
across!' (whack, w