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The man who struck him was bayoneted by Abel Waite, who was dancing around the edges of the melee like a malignant little fiend, prodding wherever he could get a chance at a rebel body. The Irishmen, yelling like demons, were using their guns like shilelahs, and crushing heads in every direction, while Wat Burnham had thrown his musket aside, and was rushing at everybody with his mighty fists.
"But, Joe, will them boys from Loch Sheen let Tim and the others be taken quietly to Ballinamore? Won't they try a reskey on the road?" "There arn't that sperrit left in 'em, Pat; and how should it? what is the like of them with their shilelahs, and may be a few stones, agin them b pailers in the daylight? Av it had been at night, we might have tried a reskey; but the sperrit ain't in 'em at all.
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