HALF-HOURS
WITH THE
HIGHWAYMEN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
THE GENERAL DECLENSION FROM OUTLAW TO HIGHWAYMAN, AND THENCE TO FOOTPAD, THIEF, AND BURGLAR—GAMALIEL RATSEY—THOMAS DUN, OF DUNSTABLE
O, there was never a life like the robber's,
So careless, and gay, and free.