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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... sure as dammit right , Dicker , me old Mam never taught me nothin ' but sinfulness , an ' that's a fact ! ' one of the others exclaimed . Dicker stroked the horse's mane with a large , hairy hand . ' Aye , Missy , we're poor orphan boys ...
... sure as dammit right , Dicker , me old Mam never taught me nothin ' but sinfulness , an ' that's a fact ! ' one of the others exclaimed . Dicker stroked the horse's mane with a large , hairy hand . ' Aye , Missy , we're poor orphan boys ...
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... sure as hellfire will ! ' Mattie snatched Jasper from her shoulder and tucked him inside her cloak again . ' Now try it , you you great oaf ! ' she raged . The one called Lump gave a great guffaw . ' Got you there , hain't she , Dicker ...
... sure as hellfire will ! ' Mattie snatched Jasper from her shoulder and tucked him inside her cloak again . ' Now try it , you you great oaf ! ' she raged . The one called Lump gave a great guffaw . ' Got you there , hain't she , Dicker ...
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... sure a gold mine at the bot- tom of all this , my friend , but it's maybe a long ways down ! But first I need some breakfast and then I need to don my finest rags and assume a right royal bearing , so as to make a social call on Sir ...
... sure a gold mine at the bot- tom of all this , my friend , but it's maybe a long ways down ! But first I need some breakfast and then I need to don my finest rags and assume a right royal bearing , so as to make a social call on Sir ...
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... sure that her stepson made a far better job of it ! As for Matilda , Lady Agatha knew the girl would never amount to anything , and told her so . It was true that Mattie's mother had been Lucid's beloved younger sister ; but this ...
... sure that her stepson made a far better job of it ! As for Matilda , Lady Agatha knew the girl would never amount to anything , and told her so . It was true that Mattie's mother had been Lucid's beloved younger sister ; but this ...
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... sure you exaggerate . This child , whom we have cared for , and must teach the difference between right and - ah - ' ' Wrong , ' supplied Hubert quickly . ' Yes , that's right wrong . That is , I mean " wrong " is right . ' - ah ' Wrong ...
... sure you exaggerate . This child , whom we have cared for , and must teach the difference between right and - ah - ' ' Wrong , ' supplied Hubert quickly . ' Yes , that's right wrong . That is , I mean " wrong " is right . ' - ah ' Wrong ...
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