Mattie and the HighwaymenBlacknBlue Press UK, 2003 - 258페이지 In 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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... shoulder , is determined to survive the dangerous and sometimes crazy happenings , and to unravel the mystery of the highwayman's past . Ed Wicke has written several books for children , including ' Muselings ' , ' Screeps ' , ' Bullies ...
... shoulder , is determined to survive the dangerous and sometimes crazy happenings , and to unravel the mystery of the highwayman's past . Ed Wicke has written several books for children , including ' Muselings ' , ' Screeps ' , ' Bullies ...
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... shoulders , pulled the hood over her short - cropped blond hair , and set off again . The cloak flapped gently against the tops of ankle - high black boots that were several sizes too large for her . After a time the quiet , even pacing ...
... shoulders , pulled the hood over her short - cropped blond hair , and set off again . The cloak flapped gently against the tops of ankle - high black boots that were several sizes too large for her . After a time the quiet , even pacing ...
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... shoulder and fixed the man with a bright eye . ' Heh ! Heh ! ' he mim- icked . ' Sblood ! It's a devil bird ! ' exclaimed Dicker . He drew the pistol from his belt . ' Shoo the hell - creature off your shoulder , Missy . I'm good with ...
... shoulder and fixed the man with a bright eye . ' Heh ! Heh ! ' he mim- icked . ' Sblood ! It's a devil bird ! ' exclaimed Dicker . He drew the pistol from his belt . ' Shoo the hell - creature off your shoulder , Missy . I'm good with ...
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... shoulders . Dicker smiled , pityingly . ' What a poor memory you have , Missy ! Can't even recall what you said a moment before , hey ? I expect you would be a bit of a trial to Miss Bell , right ? So maybe you'd better put off your ...
... shoulders . Dicker smiled , pityingly . ' What a poor memory you have , Missy ! Can't even recall what you said a moment before , hey ? I expect you would be a bit of a trial to Miss Bell , right ? So maybe you'd better put off your ...
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... greeted this . ' No , my fine prisoner . You walk the plank ! Come this way , sweetheart . ' And she was pulled along a muddy path , rough hands pinch- ing her arms and shoulders , until they reached a 11 The Highwaymen.
... greeted this . ' No , my fine prisoner . You walk the plank ! Come this way , sweetheart . ' And she was pulled along a muddy path , rough hands pinch- ing her arms and shoulders , until they reached a 11 The Highwaymen.
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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 |
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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
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102 페이지 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: (5) Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
106 페이지 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
44 페이지 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
90 페이지 - ... we are weary, And we cannot run or leap. If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them, and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping; We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow; For all day long we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground; Or all day we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round.
165 페이지 - She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer, Yet 'twas not her beauty alone that won me, Oh, no, 'twas the truth in her eyes ever beaming That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee.
165 페이지 - twas the truth in her eye ever dawning, That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee. 2. The cool shades of ev'ning their mantle were spreading. And Mary all smiling was list'ning to me, The moon thro...
71 페이지 - I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head and to treat serious matters with sincerity and courtesy!
217 페이지 - I have been necessitated to) made bold with a rich bumpkin, or a lying lawyer, whose full-fed fees from the rich farmer doth too much impoverish the poor cottage-keeper.
200 페이지 - Mattie tells me you are a kind and brave child, and I am pleased to make your acquaintance.' He held out his hand and she shook it vigorously. Mattie explained who Lucid was. 'Crumbs!
224 페이지 - I do not mind what you do, so long as you do not bother me with unnecessary expressions of gratitude!