hack).

"'Is that all? Well, some people have luck!'--(crack, crack, crack).

"'Why I've no reason to complain, thank God--(whack, crack!)--purty play
that, any way--Paddy O'Callaghan's settled--did you hear it?--(whack,
whack, another shout)--That's it boys--handle the shilleleys!--Success
O'Hallaghans--down with the bloody O'Callaghans!'

"'I did hear it: so is Jem O'Hallaghan--(crack, whack, whack,
crack)--you're not able to get up, I see--tare-an-ounty, isn't it a
pleasure to hear that play?--What ails you?'

"'Oh, Larry, I'm in great pain, and getting very weak,
entirely'--(faints).

"'Faix, and he's settled too, I'm thinking.'

"'Oh, murdher, my arm!' (One of the O'Callaghans attacks him--crack,
crack)--

"'Take that, you vagabone!'--(whack, whack).

"' Murdher, murdher, is it strikin' a down man you're after?--foul,
foul, and my arm broke!'--(crack, crack).

"'Take that, with what you got before, and it'll ase you, maybe.'

"(A party of the O'Hallaghans attack the man who is beating him).

"'Murdher, murdher!'--(crack, whack, whack, crack, crack, whack).

"'Lay on him, your sowls to pirdition--lay on him, hot and heavy--give
it to him! He sthruck me and me down wid my broken arm!'

"'Foul, ye thieves of the world!--(from the O'Callaghan)--foul! five
against one--give me fair play!--(crack, crack, crack)--Oh!--(whack)
Oh, oh, oh!'--(falls senseless, covered with blood).

"'Ha, hell's cure to you, you bloody thief; you didn't spare me with
my arm broke'--(Another general shout.) 'Bad end to it, isn't it a poor
case entirely, that I can't even throw up my caubeen, let alone join in
the diversion.'

"Both parties now rallied, and ranged themselves along the street,
exhibiting a firm phalanx, wedged close against each other, almost foot
to foot. The mass was thick and dense, and the tug of conflict stiff,
wild and savage. Much natural skill and dexterity were displayed in
their mutual efforts to preserve their respective ranks unbroken, and as
the sallies and charges were made on both sides, the temporary rash, the
indentation of the multitudinous body, and the rebound into its original
position, gave an undulating appearance to the compact mass--reeking,
dragging, groaning, and buzzing as it was, that resembled the serpentine
motion of a rushing water-spout in the clouds.

"The women now began to take part with their brothers and sweethearts.
Those who had no bachelors among the opposite factions,