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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... looked up at her along the barrel and spoke quietly . ' The only thing that stops me from putting a bul- let through the both of you is the thought that you may be worth more to us alive than dead , little Miss Bigboots . Perhaps so as ...
... looked up at her along the barrel and spoke quietly . ' The only thing that stops me from putting a bul- let through the both of you is the thought that you may be worth more to us alive than dead , little Miss Bigboots . Perhaps so as ...
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... looked at the well and said nothing . Dicker grinned . ' What d'you say , lads ? Reckon she understands ? ' Scarecrow answered grimly , ' She needs to be shown , Dicker . ' Dicker grubbed about in the dirt by the well and came up with a ...
... looked at the well and said nothing . Dicker grinned . ' What d'you say , lads ? Reckon she understands ? ' Scarecrow answered grimly , ' She needs to be shown , Dicker . ' Dicker grubbed about in the dirt by the well and came up with a ...
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... looked around at his men . He gave a long , exasper- ated sigh . ' All right , boys . Mustn't tempt fate ! The damned bird lives . ' He put the pistol away and turned to Mattie . He chucked her under the chin . ' What about your folks ...
... looked around at his men . He gave a long , exasper- ated sigh . ' All right , boys . Mustn't tempt fate ! The damned bird lives . ' He put the pistol away and turned to Mattie . He chucked her under the chin . ' What about your folks ...
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... 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- not had died some years previously , and Sir Lucid Ar- buthnot had ...
... 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- not had died some years previously , and Sir Lucid Ar- buthnot had ...
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... looked quite , quite absurd to stand absent- mindedly on one leg whilst conducting conversations , as his father was inclined to do . Lucid had never quite learned how to behave properly in public - despite being a Knight of the Realm ...
... looked quite , quite absurd to stand absent- mindedly on one leg whilst conducting conversations , as his father was inclined to do . Lucid had never quite learned how to behave properly in public - despite being a Knight of the Realm ...
Contents
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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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