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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... Hard Work 122 13 Skisin ' Off 135 14 Ancient History 146 15 Tricksy Little Game 155 16 Final Meal 161 17 Lump & Emmet Hump 171 18 A Strange Homecoming 181 19 Hard Decisions 191 20 Revelations 208 21 A Long - awaited Bonfire 223 ...
... Hard Work 122 13 Skisin ' Off 135 14 Ancient History 146 15 Tricksy Little Game 155 16 Final Meal 161 17 Lump & Emmet Hump 171 18 A Strange Homecoming 181 19 Hard Decisions 191 20 Revelations 208 21 A Long - awaited Bonfire 223 ...
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... hard against the margin of the road and met overhead . Mattie peered forward but could make out only the faint white of the chalky road surface . The mare slowed , then halted abruptly , throwing Mattie forward onto her mane . Ghostly ...
... hard against the margin of the road and met overhead . Mattie peered forward but could make out only the faint white of the chalky road surface . The mare slowed , then halted abruptly , throwing Mattie forward onto her mane . Ghostly ...
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... hard work and horrid , horrid ordinariness . The child which had resulted from this poor match clearly be- longed to that sort of life not to the gentility and order of Druddery Hall . Furthermore , to Agatha's horror , Mattie was eye ...
... hard work and horrid , horrid ordinariness . The child which had resulted from this poor match clearly be- longed to that sort of life not to the gentility and order of Druddery Hall . Furthermore , to Agatha's horror , Mattie was eye ...
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... hard on the dark lawn and knocked it over with a mighty thud . She fled into the stables and from there shot into the kitchen , where she seized a meat and potato pie that Cook had left cooling on the window ledge . As quietly as her ...
... hard on the dark lawn and knocked it over with a mighty thud . She fled into the stables and from there shot into the kitchen , where she seized a meat and potato pie that Cook had left cooling on the window ledge . As quietly as her ...
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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
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