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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... 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 anyone - stroked the mare ...
... 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 anyone - stroked the mare ...
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... stayed with the caretakers , Mr and Mrs Mills , and they were al- ways very good to me . I am certain that they be willing for me to board with them while you are in Cornwall . I will write to you again once I have arrived . I remain ...
... stayed with the caretakers , Mr and Mrs Mills , and they were al- ways very good to me . I am certain that they be willing for me to board with them while you are in Cornwall . I will write to you again once I have arrived . I remain ...
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... stayed at school . Apart from her home in Old Rookum , the Academy was the place she was happiest . However , everyone had said it would be best for her to break her studies . So instead she had been bored and angry , and lonely , and ...
... stayed at school . Apart from her home in Old Rookum , the Academy was the place she was happiest . However , everyone had said it would be best for her to break her studies . So instead she had been bored and angry , and lonely , 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
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