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 22 killed a man in fighting a duel, contrary to the laws of the nation, was tried and found guilty Reilly came to him, and told him he was then come to render good for evil; and accordingly helped him to make his escape to Ireland again.

While Redmond resided near Allen, Kelly, with two or three green horn Rapperees, beset a house in the county of Kildare, and having a hole made in the wall, through which the whey was usually conveyed into the swine trough, the servant maid had occasion to go into the dairy, and observing that the hole was somewhat wider than before, mistrusted that all was not right. Upon this, she took up a large cleaver, and conveyed herself to the side of the hole. When all was hushed, the hands fell to work again, to pick out the stones of the wall, and made the hole wider, and presently came in a head and shoulders, which the girl perceived, and making ready to give him a stroke, the fellow called to his comrades to bring him back, but the girl had taken care to lighten the load, by cutting off the head, which terrified the rest without so much, that they fled for the same, and nobody came afterwards to challenge the dead, neither was it known who he was. But now to return to Redmond and finish his life.

The vigilent Mr. Johnston seldom let Redmond rest, after his chief comrades were cut off, but hunted him over hills and dales; but more particularly once, having notice that he was at Narrow Water, sook some men and pursued him hot foot almost to Carlingford, where his passages were all intercepted, which Redmond observing, he made to an alehouse by the river side, at which time it happened there was no boat near hand,