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That old fool inside has found out something or other about the sheep, and the peelers will have you, if you don't look out, and they'll give you another seven years and maybe ten. You've done your time once, Nosey, and how would you like to do it again?
At night, when the curtains were drawn and the door barred against all fear of 'the peelers, the papers that had the reports of the Dublin trials were passed from hand to hand, or read aloud amid intense silence, accompanied by the flushing cheek, the clenching hand, often the sob, that told of the passionate feeling of the hearers.
"Ivry night they was a party on th' hill, an' th' people come fr'm miles around; an' th' tinants trudgin' over th' muddy roads with th' peelers behind thim cud see th' light poorin' out fr'm th' big house an' hear Devine's band playin' to th' dancers. Th' shopkeepers lived in clover, an' thanked th' lord f'r a good landlord, an' wan that lived at home.
"You lie; I hear their tails whisking; there's their shiny hats a glistening, and every one on 'em with peelers' staves! Quick! quick! or they'll have me to the station-house." "Nonsense!" I said; "we are free men! What are the policemen to us?" "You lie!" cried he, with a fearful oath, and a wrench at my arm which almost threw me down. "Do you call a sweater's man a free man?"
'I will so, I said, and I turned to the man behind the counter, but, sure, God bless you, he wasn't there. 'Well, this bates all, says I to the Sinn Feiner, 'an if the peelers catches a houldt of you, you'll get into bother over the head of this! I picked up my shillin', an' I went out. The place was full of them.
Afterwards M.P. for Clare, a Privy Councillor and Judge-Advocate-General. A gentleman-farmer of ancient lineage and high scholarship. After the second attempt to kindle insurrection he fled to the Continent and later proceeded to the United States, where with Doheny and Stephens he founded Fenianism. Chief Secretary for Ireland and organiser of the "new police" hence "peelers."
The Government will give me no pay; they'd give me another seven years if they could. But you see, there are no peelers here, no beaks, and no blooming courts, so I intend to make hay while the sun shines, which means tallow in these times. All these settlers gets as much work out of Government men as they can get for nothing, and if you says two words to 'em they'll have you flogged.
"I will be known to the police as one extensive in my dealings," he said. "They will not couple me with this man who is known as one living outside of the law." "It is not for the Peelers to put the honest man on one side and the thief on the other. That will be for the court. You will stand with him upon my charge.
My companion picked up the object; and we had just time to make out that it was a bell-handle and name-plate, when the pursuers came up six or seven "peelers" and specials, with a ruck of men and boys. We were collared on the instant. The fact of the property being found in our possession constituted a flagrans delictum we were caught "red-handed."
"I have committed a theft," said the boy, with a queer look on his face, "and am here to throw myself on the mercy of the court." "You speak in riddles," said Bernard. "I've been on a bully lay, as the peelers say, and I believe have made a discovery, although it may amount to nothing after all." "Go on." "I've seen the man with the red hair and beard." "When?" "Where?" "Over by the depot.
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