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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... mind ! Furthermore , it would be a fine place to put things when you no longer need ' em and don't particularly want any- one else to know you've had ' em . Know what I mean ? ' Mattie looked at the well and said nothing . Dicker ...
... mind ! Furthermore , it would be a fine place to put things when you no longer need ' em and don't particularly want any- one else to know you've had ' em . Know what I mean ? ' Mattie looked at the well and said nothing . Dicker ...
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... mind to ! I expect she'll stay put until the work'us brats get back with our breakfast . ' Mattie was led away by Scarecrow , wondering what a " work'us brat " was . Pirate ransacked her bags , and Stump - who so far had said nothing to ...
... mind to ! I expect she'll stay put until the work'us brats get back with our breakfast . ' Mattie was led away by Scarecrow , wondering what a " work'us brat " was . Pirate ransacked her bags , and Stump - who so far had said nothing to ...
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... to read books about farming , or to develop his mind by doing jig- saws and other puzzles - which he hated more than mathematics , writing and French put together ! Agatha said that Hubert must learn how act like an 17 Lord and Lady.
... to read books about farming , or to develop his mind by doing jig- saws and other puzzles - which he hated more than mathematics , writing and French put together ! Agatha said that Hubert must learn how act like an 17 Lord and Lady.
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... street of the family . ' There was a long pause . Lady Agatha took up her sewing again . She clearly felt she had said enough . ' It's such a relief having told you , Lucid . My mind is quite easy now . ' ' It is ? ' asked 24 Lord and Lady.
... street of the family . ' There was a long pause . Lady Agatha took up her sewing again . She clearly felt she had said enough . ' It's such a relief having told you , Lucid . My mind is quite easy now . ' ' It is ? ' asked 24 Lord and Lady.
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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