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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... side . They turned a final bend and stopped . The gang were panting from their exertions and two of them sat on the ground to recover while the growing light restored Mattie's whirling senses . Not counting Dicker , her cap- tors were ...
... side . They turned a final bend and stopped . The gang were panting from their exertions and two of them sat on the ground to recover while the growing light restored Mattie's whirling senses . Not counting Dicker , her cap- tors were ...
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... side of it , a steep chalk wall rose . In the past someone had tried to quarry from it , and made quite a deep cave within which Mattie could see was now a storage place for the gang . Nearby was a ramshackle timber cottage and in front ...
... side of it , a steep chalk wall rose . In the past someone had tried to quarry from it , and made quite a deep cave within which Mattie could see was now a storage place for the gang . Nearby was a ramshackle timber cottage and in front ...
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... side of the room . ' That is precisely what I said , Hubert ! ' ' Yes , Mother . ' ' Hubert ! I have told you not to call me that ! Call me " Mama " , please , with the accent on the second syllable - Mama , not Mama . Anything else is ...
... side of the room . ' That is precisely what I said , Hubert ! ' ' Yes , Mother . ' ' Hubert ! I have told you not to call me that ! Call me " Mama " , please , with the accent on the second syllable - Mama , not Mama . Anything else is ...
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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