Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. The Big House at Willsbrook (continued)

   

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   she did, 'tis mighty angry, M. Paul, their father would be with his sons.
   The Young Fenians at mid night, (When their parents, girls and children were supposed to be in bed,) went around the villages and from paddocks and stables they lead away the horses (no saddles) and met by appointment in the 'Big Field'. They had no ammunition and very few rifles- but each Fenian carried a wooden imitation of a rifle or gun. The wooden rifles and guns were made by carpenters who were in sympathy with the Fenian movement.
   People, (in general) did not know from where the guns came, nor did they dare enquire. Their sons, (Fenians) kept their parents in the dark regarding everything connected with their drilling. All night long by the light of the moon they fought their sham battles, and as another day was about to brake on their sleeping parents. the Fenians dispersed,

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