Transcriber's Note:
This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the first. The second volume was released as Project Gutenberg ebook #53112, available at [ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53112]
HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN
WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER
The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.
The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.
The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.
The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.
The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.
The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.
The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.
The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.
The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.
The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.
The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
Cycle Rides Round London.
A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.
Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.
The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of "The Ingoldsby Legends."
The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.
The Dorset Coast.
The South Devon Coast.
The North Devon Coast.
The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols.
Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.
Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).
The Manchester and Glasgow Road; This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.
Haunted Houses; Tales of the Supernatural.
The Somerset Coast. [In the Press.]
MULLED SACK.
I walke the Strand, and Westminster; and scorne
to march i'th' Cittie, though I beare the Horne.
My Feather, and my yellow Band accord
to proue me Courtier: My Boote, Spurr, and sword
My smokinge Pipe, Scarfe, Garter, Rose on shoe;
showe my brave minde t'affect what Gallants doe.
I singe, dance, drinke, and merrily passe the day,
and like a Chimney sweepe all care away