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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... his belt and slit the envelope deftly , like a man accustomed to much slitting . He extracted the let- ter and read it , his lips moving silently . Dear Uncle Lucid By the time you get this letter , I shall 14 The Highwaymen.
... his belt and slit the envelope deftly , like a man accustomed to much slitting . He extracted the let- ter and read it , his lips moving silently . Dear Uncle Lucid By the time you get this letter , I shall 14 The Highwaymen.
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... uncle and aunt - Sir Lucid and Lady Agatha Arbuthnot - and her cousin Hubert . Lucid had come to collect her from her boarding school , the Academy for the Daugh- ters of Gentlefolk , and had broken the sad news to her in his hesitant ...
... uncle and aunt - Sir Lucid and Lady Agatha Arbuthnot - and her cousin Hubert . Lucid had come to collect her from her boarding school , the Academy for the Daugh- ters of Gentlefolk , and had broken the sad news to her in his hesitant ...
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Contents
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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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