[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER VI 17/74
The men of Ennis announced their intention of marching across the park, and occupying it. "I think not," the proprietor responded quietly.
"I think you will go back the way you came.
For you may be sure of one thing: the first man who crosses that park wall, or enters that gate, is a dead man." There was no show of weapons, but the revolvers were there, and this the men of Ennis knew.
They also knew that it rested with themselves to create the right and the occasion to use the revolvers, and that if the revolvers were used they would be used to some purpose.
To their credit, be it said, as men of sense, they suddenly experienced an almost Caledonian respect for the "Sabbath-day," and after expressing their discontent with Mr.Stacpoole's inhospitable reception, turned about and went back whence they had come. This morning an orderly from Ennis brought out news of the arrest yesterday, at the Clare Road, of Mr.Lloyd, a Labour delegate from London, on his return from an agitation meeting at Kildysart.
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