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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... standing calmly at the horse's head , was biting a fingernail . ' You shouldn't do that , you know , ' Mattie told in him in a shaking voice . She hardly knew what she was say- ing . She was talking just to keep herself from fainting ...
... standing calmly at the horse's head , was biting a fingernail . ' You shouldn't do that , you know , ' Mattie told in him in a shaking voice . She hardly knew what she was say- ing . She was talking just to keep herself from fainting ...
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... 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 ! - and Agatha was going to make ...
... 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 ! - and Agatha was going to make ...
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... stand ! ' added Hubert , rolling out the words with great pleasure . ' She crunched that up better than an army of termites ! ' ' Yes ah wood . Now , that makes quite a different sound when it breaks . So perhaps it's not the sound she ...
... stand ! ' added Hubert , rolling out the words with great pleasure . ' She crunched that up better than an army of termites ! ' ' Yes ah wood . Now , that makes quite a different sound when it breaks . So perhaps it's not the sound she ...
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... 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 gnome . The green one with a little riding crop and ...
... 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 gnome . The green one with a little riding crop and ...
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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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