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Scotchman And Highwaymen
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A SCOTCH pedestrian, attacked by three highwaymen, defended himself with
great courage, but was at last overpowered, and his pockets rifled. The
robbers expected, from the extraordinary resistance they had
experienced, to find a rich booty; but were surprised to discover that
the whole treasure which the sturdy Caledonian had been defending at the
hazard of his life, was only a crooked sixpence. The deuse is in him,
said one of the rogues: if he had had eighteen-pence I suppose he
would have killed the whole of us.
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