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14 THE NEW _YORK WEEKLY VO STN 6.
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out about six in the evening, and without treated through the town, now blazing in| threats: and curses. At last we came, by It is not high, but rather steer, and| to them ; but still, for many weeks, we and
meeting. Snything to injure us, reached | many places, ‘Tivey fought inthe burning |chance, to the house of one Waish, a biker, thes Rbets were assembled on it in thou-| several as desolate were almost totally de-
Clevass i in safety streets, and t so few in number, more | who iSilew my mother, and spoke Kindly to| sands. They seemed to ave afew tents] pen lent on him.
We found all na we had left it, with the an once tepals sed the enemy, | who, | us; he ope enced his door, but we had hardly | made of blankets, but the greater number| On Friday my aunt said to me, “I shall
. Poor cows standing lowin milked, | crowded into a narrow space, impeded each | time to e when five or als pikemen fol-| were in the on er ‘ould see that some tell your mother o your r father’s death, for
We each brought away a large pitcher, and{other by their own mumbers: then this lowed, and pondered him to turaus out, or | were cooking at fires, hile ot others lay it is better she should be in the most violent
on th home met several Roman handful of brave men would retreat again | t the house over our heads, | scattered about, slegping ob the d. grief than in her present state.” She did so;
‘i hun at still pressed’ on ie “Giemissed tts uns tingly, and put at the | was a taken to} and I cannot even now bear to thi ink of the
at se they gained the Mar! ume time a little open book into the hands | the hill, where the then who ere oar fel:| manner in which my mother heard, i its yet
inch of ground. The of one of the chiltven ; ; when we had gone a| low-prisoners were separate: in the mids of her anguish for his loss, the
sheltered us stood ‘exactly op-|few steps, Isaw it was a Romish prayer-| driven like sheeep higher up thei whtlat thoughts of his lying ried seeme
ince thought Posite to this building, and though non i gi er most a My
re to the windows, woman of greatstrength both of person and
ins uproar, that mind, ani loved my father as though
s bn 1b r own brother, now proposed
hould accompany her the ne:
this world and in the next, or, knowing
ourdoom and pitying us, were afruid to
in it; but if they
more merei-
cordingly, and met no molestation; but on
reaching the place, the body was ‘nowhere
nen|to be seen. No other corpse was in sight,
-e | yet the smell of putridity was 60 strong that
my aunt fainted. I got her home again,
s|and there we saw Martin, who had just
as it unde T who had never before seen
other “poor little creatures sheltered {a dead Body, hud now to step
in that crowded house. ray nd en-| corpses of the rebels, who had. fallen by the shi; rds brought the meal, and who told my mother
deavored to rest on the bare boands (for) reo! out men in the Mackes house, whilst | the night io that garden Many” of these | in the bright moonlight ‘what terriied ‘me| that he had himself laid his master’s. body
e knew their lon yet fear had so completely | more than any sigh dl Yet beheld; T]in a fase pit and covered it overs ‘but
conquered grief that not one dared to weep | saw a tall w eure "rash down’ ine
Mould ; the children were as silent a8. theit| hill directly towards us; as it came nearer, my “mother, for some weeks afterward we
thees,and whenever a footstep was heard | Ustw it wes a naked ‘man, and. I felt my searched that gravel-pit in vain and
to pass atong, we all hid our faces against | heurt die within me, for T'thought it was| afterwards tol
ry room with us, and th
\ closeness of the nin, so dilierent. { theearth, ‘The moon shone brightly that |no living being. He passed so close to me | and ail the others had been thrown into the
own pleasant, airy, little bed-cha night, and Isaw atone ime a mam led into| that I could set the dark: streams of blood] Slaney, which ran close beside, but afew
| the dawal arose,’ and after iaqui the garden, pinioned; but Barker, who was| running down his sides. Ina few seconds, | hours before we had gone to seek it. Martin
| vain through the house for the thenin the house, wae so-bumane as notto| the uproar, above ‘showed ‘that he wad] called us several times afterward,
who, I afterwards heard, ut him to death amongst us, but ordered | missed, and his pursuers also passed close to| still anxious for our safety; but at Borris,
} off in the night to join her relations in the ‘im off to Vinegar Hill. tts. One saw me looking up, and asked had | on rath of June, hh was, ‘mortally
rebel camp,) my father, seeing Asthe night advanced, a rebel named|I seen anyone run past? but I was given| wounded, and even then, when dying, made
again about our cows, said h he most active in defending it, " peretiving my mother | courage to deny it, This—as I afterwards| his comrades promise to bring his body and
pith me, for he hoped there ‘would be Ho | in Jess than aa hour it too took fire; and alt | to shiver violently, threw around her about | heard--wasa siagularly fine young man, (lay it in our ground, ‘They secondingly
immediate im in. the town, We! withia it, armed men, helpless women, and | four or five yards of coarse blue cloth, and not quite twenty, named Horneek, the sou| broughtit. twenty miles on a car
went a the litte farm, and | infant children, were foreed to lenve 1, and | spoke some words o pity to us, i mother, waked it in our outhouse that was
found again na as yet all was 6 throw themsel¥ ids | terror, endeavored to cast it aw: yet standing, and buried i
s cows waiting for us, and the poor poultry | rebels, who now surrounded it in hundreds, | for she said she should be killed for having | recovering, had fled thus from the bill of our fields n
i, and pigs looking to us for the food we ha they would have been destroyed by the|on her what was not her own; e| attended his funeral, partl
to sive them, “My father went to. look at| explosion of the gunpowder, which shortly /some difficulty, made her keep it; : fearful men w1 i
Lisdeserted factory, and T attended to the| after took place. “As we were on the point| she would thidw it from her, ‘drawing it| suers reached him, and completed ir|ly from regard for his fidelity, and I shed
then thought of some griddie-cakes | of rushing out of the buiiding, Grimes de-| round her Incing ‘the shivering | work of destruction. some tears of si wer his grave,
| of coarse meal whi jorgotten on hat last she seemed] | On Wednesday, about eleven in the fore-| | When T had been about tend é
termined on a desperate si tep for our safety; | children eneath ity t
d the halfopened | to fonget how it was given to her; and, ex-| noon, owing to ‘the Fatchocaston ‘of Mary | uncie’s house, a young man named Morgan
door, and seized the pikes of two of the] cept the clothes we ‘wore, Mehat was the only| Donnelly, we were allowed to leave the Byrne, who was to i
fate Hitchen, ‘and taking a piece of the /enenly who had fallen close to it, the - ig we had for ten weeks to sleep un-| hill. W enw we had gone about a furlong, 1| one of my schoolfellows, came on horse-
bread, asked m a mug of the warm |ing to my father, he s I, do, my ev mother, and. was|back with three more rebels of the better
ik. T gave it to him when, turning to the Sams Tay down that ke thie ‘Ta the dead of the night, I began to take shocked at sisting the infant from her | class, to demand from us he fine young
door, and zm: ‘to top of| pike tear one of those little green frocks of | somewhat more courage, and hearing ried, ¢ nother, where is the| horse which they had been unable to’ carry |'
Coolhahorna Ilifl, which was not a quarter Sourchildren to put on the pike for a bane strange noise inalane which was divided enna, What chia? ee said. “Oh, I be-| off before on account of his tegs. being fet-
of a mile ivom us, I saw the ridge of it filled|ner, and perhaps you and they from the garden only by a low wall, I crept| lieve I teft itin the trench in’ whi red lest he should havestrayed
wil ed with pikes, the heads of / spared.” on my hands and knees to it, and saw alsat.” I went back, and found the poor litte said they wanted him to mount their general,
them glistening in the morning sun, father replied: “Never! I will] sight that goon drove me buck 40 my moth-| creature asleep on the ground, mother | and ordered me to unlock the fetters.
called in much trow hte to my father, and miei the king's cause mor my musket |er's S01 founded men had been | being so erazed with grief and’ fear that she| all our troubles I-had happened to preserve
was doing,’ took} while I hav dragged to die in that lane, and some young | had forgotten it. my mother’s Key's, though now totally use~
i ere
ike into alarge|boysof the rebel side Nad mounted on n our progress towards home, we met a| less; so I went with them to the fie!
ing. us follow, he| horses, and were galloping up and down| poor siliy fellow, a wood-ranger, who called | the horse grazed, and when I had taken off
arket, house, |many times across their bodies, they only | himself a pikeman, but was armed only/ the fetters, ina fit of careless anger at see-
showing signs of Jife by their groans; but{ with the handle of A shovel with vo pike-| ing this last act of plunder, I shook them at
ant arker, when he heard of this, put astop| head on it; he took my _ little vister “on his| him, on which the fine young beast fied at
k to Sy futher, diouideus bis musket, followed to it, and let them die in ence, back, and my brother in his arms, and off-/ full speed. The rebels cursed me heartily,
arrived t nine {him; I came closely, after him,carrying| In'the house, a Protestant iady of great] ered to leave usat our own im, in whi
advanced towards ny little brother of four years ‘old ;" the] respectability was Sheltered ne her chil-| within half a mile of it, we met a Roman
arms, and | two little gitls clung tomy skirts, and my|dren, Asa mark of good-will towards her, “athol lic lad, a schoolfellow of m
heard that the cnemy were phen with the tant, came after me. va wi
closing in on all sides of it in vast force, ‘As we stepped from the door my father | next morning (Tuesday) for them. She saw | on seeing us, and perceiving ussi
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Grimes then a stuck his
es iv ion,
rent pos ing mn ; in
assigned to thems the North Cork Militia | he children 1? They were the last words I| our hiltvons ‘but thouet? the they ‘nated it [off to his mother's’ house for ‘bread. tnd | V ‘exford. He instantly armed himself, rode
were placed on the bridge over the Slaney, | ever heard none could eat but the little boy's fear had | milk; but we could onl; fink, We were| thither, walked into the stable where the
Which ran on the enst side of the town; As fet he ane hour, «fn nt ant deprived the others of {he least appetite, iene nee here till toward evening, | horse Sood, and pithout exchanging a. |
° rse yeomanry filled. the street that of four years old, the son of Joseph Fitz- yout nine, I felt su esice to rejoldi| but were then o Hes 0 leave Jt, fon-tnd |word with the man in cowwnsk yin fe
ri = oy thea hiea ‘Suu -nity Sed Sufety was | Was, and who was present, unloosed him
Fen ee ree on eee he ee | States Saka masa Sine oust id | a faceotinat Liedtm my ‘ et Rhd_wenl|endangered by “our stay. Murphy again |from the sall and brought him. off without
0 ere pli iced atthe Dultrey knees, came out beside me; when, unfortu-|to dhe garden-gate. Tbf} sson I saw |Rave my mother his arm, and towards dusk | the slightest opposition having been made.
. Gate, at theoppotite extremity of the town, | nately, one of the rebels, who had some | was Martin’ ’s_mother lincesed ‘completely we at last reached the home we had so long| The rebe egan to esting,
: towards the west. A guard of yeomen was Partiediag hatred to its father, knew the in new and excellent iothes and in par-| wished for, and found but a heap of ashes, | and we lived some weeks in Miread ‘both
placed over the Market-honse, where there child, an ad €: ng, Orange | ticulur a rem a 3
Yas a great store of arms and ammunition, brat al posed ‘him ‘Sn asT thought, on| Twas so much ast 2 :
i i ‘he child gaye al/was very poor, that forgetting for the mo-| nothin,
wand Lag stooping to raise hia, {mentall my saxiety and fear, T-asked her| and a sinall outh c
gw the pike drawn back covered | who had given the hat, She andwered me|had been torn, Que factory, with ‘all our with us and om was eve
ce iv i x4] wheels, looms, presses, and ‘machines, was afterwards deserted by our two families;
' | burned; all our wool and cloth which we | but the last, either not knowing, that we
nme to euppress a shriek, and | said I, “have you seen my father?” hhad concealed in the corn was carried of ; were suffering loyalists, or not caring, often
‘ace in my little brother’s bosom, | “I have,” said she; “and he is dead.” I| our young cattle, pigs, and horses (all but| behaved The small
secn all this time, though he was on duty in whilst the two other little preaturesy with- a i z he
the town) at the Duffrey Gate, the post ag-| out uttering asingle ery, only pressed closer after hearing this; but I then found that] hay and o:
signed to them, me;and my mother, whose eyes were | Molly Martin had drawn me away from the | stood Tooking on ‘al this destiuction
. In the course of this morning, Willis, in| never remover from my’ father, fortanately | garden-gate, lest, as she told ‘me, my &
whose house we were sheltered, put’ his | never saw it. 8 :
-| We were allowed to pass over the square |I 4 l
out being injured, and were still follow-| me to him, that I might see him once mor
n I no-|she at first refused, but at last, to pacify
weely, and | my violence, she consented. We went abowt th
ad me. |a quarter mile o Bat jane, wher
: He never mentioned to us his ii ii
' nor could we blame him, for aealimity auch | ticed
as that in which we were all involved
her home, low ved us from 48, RM “which had |p
kind | licked all the blood olf his face. This erea-
in, | tage, was never afterward se
can now sa that thisterriblesight near-
snow aly killed me. | Kfelta suffocation come on
ked 0
Boot ‘his APE earance, consequently, was|even my own life, to’ have brought him
rrid, and his action ‘was suspicious; 80,| back, I fell on my knees, and whilst kissing
ht 0 i
i i forget the joy we felt at being once more
ay equally expored, more eapecinily as he, }Iane we were now ‘about entering tnubied to een intetattomety, opee gene
H seelng that the | disaffected inhabitants of w : I \ only Peony coratorty for, Ai ie
tl the Had now beatin to set ton fire fo | than a bande shois that dag, and made| ing to repeat the ‘blow, Ht. his comrade| there we find nearly ifty women and chit-| ground to sleep om Polat ey Paty |
HO places, twice o thrice, on the enemy | every one tell, Te at this moment took aim | levelled his pike at him, with an] dren of the beter cltss, Who had n0 other | held of our barley, which Tad reaped uly,
Lte perially repulsed, had quitied his|ata pikeman within a few paces of us, who | oath, “If you strike her agai, L will thrust] place in which to lay. their” head ing, ripened P
re still | staggered a few steps, and fell dead behind | this through your body! Because the child | morsel to satisfy the hunger which (now |who had eucd beck Me Mle wag roe
-| me, exactly across my motlicr's fect. She| is frightened, are you to beat her?” T ‘now| that they were no longer in immediate fear [gave us back “all our’ onta Seeaghercund;
dropped in a dead faint beside the corpse; 1| knew him tobe one Jack B who but| for their lives) they began to fe eck Our new potatoes were fit foruses and we
turned to raise her, and to take the young] the week before had purchased Mgome cloth he provisions in the house had been| never afterwards knew what want was, We |
, | infant from the ground on which it had slid | from my father ata fair to. which I had| gived to the different parties of rebels; but {did nou fom eee eae Oe eat ae. We i |
ifout of her arms. “I thus lost fete ot mny| gone with him. He spoke with kindness to} we milled all the cows, both my uncle’ immer Bald & house till the :
father, and of the fearful pike at was|merand he and Molly Martin brought me| our own (for the four tileh-cows I f 7 !
folio lowing him, and never saw him alive| ick to the garden where had left my |left), und made eunds, which, for two dagos| waa ong ze mich (6a he thal spannged it
ut Providence thus kindly spared| mother, advising me not to tell her what I| was our only nourishment. On the tet |< <p € never rebuilt, are yet
by the very man] had seen, lest she should perish with terzor| day, poor Martin eame to see us; he
his first nourishment trom | and sorrow. with Us, and gave us two. sacks of barley ten iy ae ins frees Vinegar Hill was
e breast with with him. Ie fol-}. W fe remained without food all that day,| meal, which he and his comrades had, of| lantern 4 Freuucnted Berhouse. to |
|i him into Barrack Lane, and piked| but we wanted none, and toward evening | course, plundered from some other distressed | hare ag ee reuented outhouse,
hhim at the door of Mr, Sparrow's brewery ;| Barker’s family tucned ug all out of the git reatures, but which want forced. us grate-| when she some straw. cohlartin’s mother, |
a man ‘named Byrne, in charge of the place, den, telling us it was not safe for us to re- lly to lowell mn each saint ah pola a ay
i mit the act, an im too,| main there any longer. Inow thought of na a oF two after, he tated 5 bu ad rea
e| with his lenther-entter’s. knife, disfigure his| taking my mother home, for. ag the was ian aay ore tea and siigar, and T alsa | eacege tne little Silane,
face, after emptying bis pockets, and strip-| quite stupefied, and had never spoken the| wept for joy at receiving it, for my mother |oho soa 8 8
g hita of the new coat and hat he hadj whole day, she was quite incapable of advis-| was unable to take any nourishment: ect | oe ned to see that they concealed three or
on ing with me, so Twas left entirely to my-| the infant was perishing for want ab heu{,
0 fe yoni Rt of chat i woot at x me like orie| breast, I have often thought their lives wees [+
: e } f i
arose, and we both, uncon , our iors, outskirts. of the tawn, and wore. slowts | ered eee RUDPIY, which was almost
| went ‘with the the river, ong th party of rebels} companions ; but my au
wit} thinking we night him. Myon the opposite thank ofdered ts back inte lousy refrained from touching eas ee,
NO gece tm,
e North Con
for
card it sag that they | motherwas quits vleiidere, and unable t) the town again, threatening atthe eame| we thought
neglected to sound a retreat, which, Ht dond, [peak to mecimuch lens to. 0 vise mes and| time tu fire on as. then'tried to quit ft igen “tn ada at, out to m to make it i last the
would have enabled many more of the I, although horn 40 pene the ‘own, had xel-|by another outl hen we were sur-|found that two of our pigs which had wee i
n to church or to market, | rounded iy alanee party of the Pikemen, | driven al ‘had retarned tome and he kifed [a éasemmore on tery and was buried privy
and was quite ignorant where to seek for|and marched off with many more prisoners | them, h gave usa pent 6 1, St ed y the two poor women, and the
asked at many doors would | whom they had previously taken to Vine-| Inabout a tosrehe ain chloe weno
was my brother; and ‘ihe they admit us? but we were constantly | gar of those creatures “he ater number
rest, with whom was my father, slowly re-'driven away, and sometimes even with Te hill lies close to the town of Ennis. parted to what Week ne “hat “melicred a
eft
have
fem up, but I
never repented of 1
It was just six weeks after th besiasint
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