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She were an' old lady in a pair-'oss phaeton wi' plenty o' sparklers an' nice white hair: a rosy old creetur, comfortably plump and round 'specially in front. 'O Mr. 'ighwayman! says she, weepin' doleful as she tipped me 'er purse an' the shiners, ''ow could ye do it? 'Ma'm, I says, wipin' my eyes wi' my pistol and 'ma'm, I don't know but do it I must! An' I rode away quite down-'earted."
"So I'll trouble you for your purse an' also your ticker an' sharp's the word!" And speaking, he whipped a pistol beneath my chin, whereupon I delivered up the articles named as quickly as my consternation would allow. "And now," said he, pocketing my erstwhile property and seizing my arm again, "come on, friend, an' let this be a warnin' never to disturb a 'ighwayman wot grieves."
"Thieves, missus a murderin' 'ighwayman Galloping Jerry 'isself a bloody rogue " "'E looks it!" nodded the landlady. "Bleedin' all over my clean kitchen, 'e be. Take 'im out t' barn " "Not us, ma'm, not us 'e's nigh give us the slip once a'ready, dang 'im!" Saying which, the speaker kicked the poor wretch so that he would have fallen but for the wall, whereupon the man Vokes laughed and nodded.
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