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I again tried to enter the shop. . . . After a third futile attempt, I ran around the corner of the shop and crawled into a pile of lumber, hiding as best I could. Immediately, the mob began shooting at me and the splintered lumber flew all around. I crawled out and ran into an empty house on the slope near the pond. Here I found. . . Father McBride, who had been wounded and had crawled into a potato cellar under the floor of the house. . . . He begged for a drink of water and to be helped out of the cellar. I then went to the millpond to get him some water and was deliberately fired upon, the bullets spattering in the water like hail. . . . I made the old gentleman as comfortable as possible and as the bullets were flying thickly around us, I ran from this house into another one close by. Here I heard sobs and . . . found six little girls huddled in fear. . . . I said. . . "Come. . ." So we ran to the millrace which we crossed on a board reaching the woods on the other side of the pond- with the mob shooting at us all the way. After our race for life, the little girls scurried off. . . . I took shelter behind a large tree where I could watch the activities of the mob with comparative safety.
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