Yet the crack of the gun, forbidden in the precincts of Walton Hall, is here by no means unknown--the whole family being noted as dead shots.

I asked Mr.
Stacpoole this morning whether the park had been invaded by trespassers since the local Nationalists declared war upon him.

He said that his only experience of anything like an attack befell not very long ago, when his people came to the house on a Sunday afternoon and told him that a crowd of men from Ennis, with dogs, were coming towards the park with a loudly proclaimed intent to enter it, and go hunting upon the property.
Upon this Mr.Stacpoole left the house with his brother and another person, and walked down to the park entrance.

Presently the men of Ennis made their appearance on the highway.

A very brief parley followed.