gibbetin

Updated: May 13, 2025

"What about my blunderbuss?" expostulated the Bagman, faintly, as I seated myself beside him, "you'll give me my blunderbuss cost me five pound it did." "More fool you!" said the highwayman, and, picking up the unwieldy weapon, he hove it into the ditch. "As to our argyment regardin' gibbetin', sir," said he, nodding to me, "I'm rayther inclined to think you was in the right on it arter all."

Jeffery Farnol - The Broad Highway