Mattie and the HighwaymenIn the 1840s most highwaymen are hanging up their riding boots and putting away their pistols. But there is just time for one last gang of misfit ruffians to attack nervous travellers as they pass through Harewood forest in Hampshire And so it is that |
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... began Mattie . ' Then you shouldn't be talking ! Bring her along , lads ! Lump , Stump , Pirate , Scarecrow on the double now ! We don't want her to be late for the wondrous Miss Bell , do we ? ' Mattie was hustled off the road to her ...
... began Mattie . ' Then you shouldn't be talking ! Bring her along , lads ! Lump , Stump , Pirate , Scarecrow on the double now ! We don't want her to be late for the wondrous Miss Bell , do we ? ' Mattie was hustled off the road to her ...
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... began trimming the jigsaw shapes so that they fitted one an- other . Lady Agatha took up her embroidery again . ' That girl will have to go ! ' she declared . ' I used to have a stepson who spoke kindly to me , but she has taught him to ...
... began trimming the jigsaw shapes so that they fitted one an- other . Lady Agatha took up her embroidery again . ' That girl will have to go ! ' she declared . ' I used to have a stepson who spoke kindly to me , but she has taught him to ...
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... began uncertainly . ' Lucid , there's something worrying me . ' Lucid nodded . ' I rather thought so - ' . ' We go to visit my father tomorrow , in Cornwall . ' ' Are you worried now about leaving Mattie behind ? I did propose ...
... began uncertainly . ' Lucid , there's something worrying me . ' Lucid nodded . ' I rather thought so - ' . ' We go to visit my father tomorrow , in Cornwall . ' ' Are you worried now about leaving Mattie behind ? I did propose ...
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Contents
5 | |
16 | |
Workus Brats | 26 |
Trapped | 34 |
No Mitchin | 47 |
Some Argufyin | 55 |
Plots and Proverbs | 68 |
Rafty Lessons | 75 |
Skisin Off | 135 |
Ancient History | 146 |
Tricksy Little Game | 155 |
Final Meal | 161 |
Lump Emmet Hump | 171 |
A Strange Homecoming | 181 |
Hard Decisions | 191 |
Revelations | 208 |
The Danger of a Little Gold | 83 |
The Lives of the Poor | 103 |
The Workhouse | 114 |
Nobbut Hard Work | 122 |
A Longawaited Bonfire | 223 |
Historical comment | 228 |
Hampshire dialect | 229 |
Common terms and phrases
afore ain't Andover aunt Aunt Agatha bein ben't better bird black stallion bones Brats bread breakfast camp carriage cave Chief Inspector child clothes Cornwall cried dark dear dirty door Druddery Hall exclaimed eyes face father fingers girl hand hard head highwayman horse Hubert jackdaw Jasper Lady Agatha Lizzie Lump Mama Matilda Mattie asked Mattie looked Mattie nodded Mattie's McDougal mean Mills mind Miss Bell Missy never night once paused Perhaps Pirate poor pulled rags reckon Renward River Test road Rose of Tralee Scarecrow shoulder side Sir Dicker Sir Lucid smiled sorry spect spoke stared stood Stump suddenly sure talking tell there's things thought told Tom Smith took trying turned Tyger uncle voice walked wash watermint what's whispered words Work'us Workhouse wrong young