You think yourself very wise, Johnny Bacach. Can you tell me, now, who that man is? JOHNNY. Some decent lad, I suppose, with a good way of living and a mind to send up his name upon the roads. PAUDEEN. You that have been gaoled this eight months know little of this countryside. It isn’t a limping stroller like yourself the Boys would let come among them. But I know. I went to the drill a few nights and I skinning kids for the mountainy men. In a quarry beyond the drill is—they have their plans made—it’s the square house of the Brownes is to be made an attack on and plundered. Do you know, now, who is the leader they are waiting for? JOHNNY. How would I know that? PAUDEEN [_singing_]. Oh, Johnny Gibbons, my five hundred healths to you. It is long you are away from us over the sea! JOHNNY [_standing up excitedly_]. Sure that man could not be Johnny Gibbons that is outlawed! PAUDEEN. I asked news of him from the old lad, and I bringing in the drink along with him. ‘Don’t be asking questions,’ says he; ‘take the treat he gives you,’ says he. ‘If a lad that has a high heart has a mind to rouse the neighbours,’ says he, ‘and to stretch out his hand to all that pass the road, it is in France he learned it,’ says he, ‘the place he is but lately come from, and where the wine does be standing open in tubs. Take your treat when you get it,’ says he, ‘and make no delay or all might be discovered and put an end to.’ JOHNNY. He came over the sea from France! It is Johnny Gibbons, surely, but it seems to me they were calling him by some other name. PAUDEEN. A man on his keeping might go by a hundred names. Would he be telling it out to us that he never saw before, and we with that clutch of chattering women along with us? Here he is coming now. Wait till you see is he the lad I think him to be. MARTIN [_coming in_]. I will make my banner, I will paint the unicorn on it. Give me that bit of canvas, there is paint over here. We will get no help from the settled men—we will call to the lawbreakers, the tinkers, the sievemakers, the sheepstealers. [_He begins to make banner._ BIDDY. That sounds to be a queer name of an army. Ribbons I can understand, Whiteboys, Rightboys, Threshers, and Peep o’ Day, but Unicorns I never heard of before. JOHNNY. It is not a queer name but a very good name. [_Takes up lion and unicorn._] It is often you saw that before you in the dock. There is the unicorn with the one horn, and what it is he is going against? The lion of course. When he has the lion destroyed, the crown must fall and be shivered. Can’t you see it is the League of the Unicorns is the league that will fight and destroy the power of England and King George? PAUDEEN.