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The effect of the dismissals soon began to manifest itself in complaints and remonstrances. Of Balla, in the county of Mayo, we read that the order was rigidly enforced there, that the people had no seed to sow their land, and that there was no provision for supplying them with food.
One thing, however, the person's escape effected it prevented Willy's ever hearing any more of his mistake; but that did not keep him now and then from asking Uncle Balla "if he had fastened his horses well." These hens were not the last things stolen from Oakland. Nearly all the men in the country had gone with the army.
Their mother told them they might go down into the garden and help Balla, on condition that they would not talk. "That's the way we always do when we bury the treasure. Ain't it, Willy?" asked Frank. "If a man speaks, it's death!" declared Willy, slapping his hand on his side as if to draw a sword, striking a theatrical attitude and speaking in a deep voice.
They had not thought of this; but they covered it with leaves, and agreed that it was so well hidden, the Yankees would never dream of looking there. "Unc' Balla, where are your horses?" asked one of the boys. "That's for me to know, an' them to find out what kin," replied the old fellow with a chuckle of satisfaction.
When they reached home they hunted up Uncle Balla and told him about their discovery. He was very much inclined to laugh at them. The hogs they had seen were nothing, he told them, but some of the neighbors' hogs which had wandered into the woods.
The boys' mother cried a great deal, but it was generally when she was by herself. "She's afraid Hugh'll be kilt," Willy said to Uncle Balla, in explanation of her tears, the old servant having remarked that he "b'lieved she cried more when Hugh went away, than she did when Marse John and Marse William both went." "Hi! warn't she 'fred they'll be kilt, too?" he asked in some scorn.
Captain Shafto, a very cautious man, was pursuing his researches; the Goorkhas were quartered in the upper Balla Hissar near the magazine shed, and the 67th occupied the Ameer's garden lower down.
The Goorkha regiment was detached to hold the ridge commanding the Balla Hissar, and a cavalry regiment was quartered in the Sherpur cantonment to protect it from the ravages of the villagers. A melancholy interest attaches to the visit paid by Sir Frederick Roberts to the Balla Hissar on the 11th.
Arguing that a retreat on Jellalabad must be most disastrous, and was to be avoided except in the last extremity, he nevertheless ended somewhat inconsistently by leaving to the military authorities, if in eight or ten days there should appear no prospect of an improvement of the situation, the decision whether it would be wiser to attempt a retreat or to withdraw from the cantonments into the Balla Hissar.
People died in Connaught whilst in full employment on the public works, just as they did in Munster. Of such cases, the following is one of which W.G. collected some particulars: James Byrne, of Barnabriggan, Brize, parish of Balla, was employed up to his death on the public works. The last food of which he had partaken was obtained by his wife pledging her cloak.
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