This would astonish our landlords in America, where the tenant who sticks so much as a sunflower into his garden-patch makes a present of it to his landlord.[14] I asked if the place made a long defence.

Mr.Tener and the constable both laughed, and the former told me that when the storming party arrived shortly after daybreak, they found the house garrisoned only by some small boys, who had been left there to keep watch.

The men were fast asleep at some other place.

The small boys ran away as fast as possible to give the alarm, but the police went in, and in a jiffey pulled to pieces the elaborate defences prepared to repel them.

Father Coen, the constable said, got to Kenny's house an hour after it was all over, with a mob of people howling and groaning.