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The firing had lasted three hours. Only two Free State men were wounded.
One of them was shot in the arm, in the early part of the engagement.
The other, a young man, with a great exuberance of spirits, kept springing up in the grass, shouting and firing his gun, when, on one of these occasions, he was struck by a ball in the side.
Luckily it glanced off the ribs, or it would have killed him; as it was, it inflicted a severe wound, and two of his friends had to take him off the field.
There were now only nine Free State men in the ravine keeping up a fire; and about as many more on the hill, three hundred yards from the enemy, who kept firing at the horses and occasionally making a sally, but never near enough to do much mischief.
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