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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... head , and a hook nose set crookedly on a scarred face . A second had an arm that ended above the wrist ; apart from a wispy red beard , he had the face of a boy . A third was fat , balding and beardless . He sat wheezing and sweating ...
... head , and a hook nose set crookedly on a scarred face . A second had an arm that ended above the wrist ; apart from a wispy red beard , he had the face of a boy . A third was fat , balding and beardless . He sat wheezing and sweating ...
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... head as he sits there on your shoulder , or else as he flies away . But off it most definitely goes , my lovely ! Can't abide witches , ghosts , black cats , haunted houses , the gibbet - or ravens ! ' ' It's not a raven . It's a ...
... head as he sits there on your shoulder , or else as he flies away . But off it most definitely goes , my lovely ! Can't abide witches , ghosts , black cats , haunted houses , the gibbet - or ravens ! ' ' It's not a raven . It's a ...
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... head , where it swirled around and upwards until coming to a point . It looked rather as if she had mistaken one of the beehives in the cherry orchard for a hat , and was wearing it ! She was not Hubert's mother . The first Lady Arbuth ...
... head , where it swirled around and upwards until coming to a point . It looked rather as if she had mistaken one of the beehives in the cherry orchard for a hat , and was wearing it ! She was not Hubert's mother . The first Lady Arbuth ...
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... head , he looked very like a duck , except when he was standing on one leg , which he did . in moments of excitement and was doing now . ' Great shame , ' he said . ' Great shame . ' ' What is , Lucid dear ? ' ' Your favourite garden ...
... head , he looked very like a duck , except when he was standing on one leg , which he did . in moments of excitement and was doing now . ' Great shame , ' he said . ' Great shame . ' ' What is , Lucid dear ? ' ' Your favourite garden ...
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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