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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... reckon your Miss Bell is just the lady to give it us ! So I expect you'd be pleased if we was to go with you and protect you from brigands and highwaymen and other outcasts from polite society . Hey ? Besides , we knows a shortcut , don ...
... reckon your Miss Bell is just the lady to give it us ! So I expect you'd be pleased if we was to go with you and protect you from brigands and highwaymen and other outcasts from polite society . Hey ? Besides , we knows a shortcut , don ...
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... 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 fat worm . He placed it on a flat stick , which he laid on the stones . The worm ...
... 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 fat worm . He placed it on a flat stick , which he laid on the stones . The worm ...
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... reckon she'll talk if we roast her feet on the camp- fire ? ' There were laughs of approval at this suggestion but Pirate spoke up again , saying doubtfully , ' She's just a girl , Dicker . ' ' Just a girl ? She's a clear thousand in ...
... reckon she'll talk if we roast her feet on the camp- fire ? ' There were laughs of approval at this suggestion but Pirate spoke up again , saying doubtfully , ' She's just a girl , Dicker . ' ' Just a girl ? She's a clear thousand in ...
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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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