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then, where Mrs. MacGrath and the guests were enjoying them- selves, and of course they got a divilish fright when they see the three men coming in and they not expecting any danger. The officers at any rate jumped to their feet for to make a struggle. But the robbers drew their blunderbusses, and told them sit tight and quiet where they were or they'd fire at them. So they took the three officers and tied them up, and then was the time to plunder the house. So Mrs. MacGrath asked Green not to be letting his men to be interfering with her daughters. So Green granted her request, and told around that any of his rnen as would interfere with Mrs. MacGrath's daughters he. would shoot him. They went and plundered the house then, and took every- thing, gold and silver and everything that was of value in the house, they took it away with them. So, when they were after removing the things across the drawbridge, they came back for the officers, but Mrs. MacGrath stood up again, and she said she was asking another request, — not to interfere with the gentlemen but to leave them where they were. But Green said he had granted her one request, and he wouldn't grant her another. So they marched away with the officers. And there was not another word heard about them for three months afterwards. Now the girl as had had the wickedness to betray her mistress was taken by sorrow for having done this wicked thing, and she went away from the place and wandered about, pining and regretting till she died. And the place where she died is called Kilbrine, and it means the church of drops.

Well, in twelve months after there was a man looking for a herd of cattle, as was after straying away from him, and when he went into a certain glen near Druid Mount, what should he see but the three sodgers in the stream as was running-through the glen, and they had been drowned by the robbers. And their belts and their buckles, (for they were in uniform), were shining there in the water and that stream is called " The Sodgers' Ford " from that day to this after these three unfortunate gentlemen. Well, when the report was given, the authorities from Clonmel came to fetch them and bury them, and it was thought that there had been a plot laid by the MacGraths to kill the sodgers. So they were took from their lands and their house, and they had to live in a small