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"With a Spanish ship off the coast," Asgill answered, "and you know who likely to land, and a preaching, may be, next Sunday, and pike-drill at the Carraghalin to follow man, in three days you may have smoking roof-trees, and 'twill be too late to cry 'Hold! Stop, I say, stop while you can, and before you've all Kerry in a flame!" James McMurrough turned with a start.
His face but the light was beginning to fail seemed a shade paler. "How did you know there was pike-drill?" he cried sharply. "I didn't tell you." "Hundreds know it." "But you!" McMurrough retorted. It was plain that he was disagreeably surprised. "Did you think I meant nothing when I said I played bonnet to it?" "You know a heap too much, Luke Asgill!" "And could make a good market of it?"
They were, for the main part, the Campbells of the shire: of them alone the chief could muster 5000 half-merkland men at a first levy, all capable swordsmen, well drilled and disciplined soldadoes, who had, in addition to the usual schooling in arms of every Gael, been taught many of the niceties of new-fashioned war, countermarch, wheeling, and pike-drill.
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