Fortunately, he only hit the truss of straw I was carrying.

Then I went round to the back door, where I had agreed that Bridget was to come to me, if things were going wrong in the house.

A few minutes afterwards she came out, with a white face, and said: 'For the sake of the Holy Virgin, run for your life, Pat, and warn the soldiers!' So I slipped away and ran my hardest." All this was told as the party were running at full speed towards the house.
"How strong was the troop ?" Walter asked.
"About eighty men, yer honour." "We must trust to a surprise," Walter said.

"We can get round to the back of the house without being seen.

If we burst in there suddenly, we can clear the house and hold it till my father comes up with the whole troop." Five minutes after they had left the boat, the party approached the house.