Identifier: lifeonroadorclau00robe (find matches)
Title: Life on the road : or, Claude, Turpin, and Jack, being a complete account of the most daring adventures of the notorious highwaymen, Claude Duval, Dick Turpin, and Sixteen-string Jack
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Robert M. De Witt (Firm), publisher
Subjects: Penny dreadfuls
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Robert M. De Witt
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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mind a ten-pound-note if we are successful; but mind you, T givenothing unless I have fairly hold of Claude Duval, Then the money is due,and you shall have it on the instant, for if he gets away after I have got agrip of him, I wHl give him leave, and say that he is the better man, As he spoke, he stretched out a large bony hand, which certainly might,if its owner had courage as well as strength, be of some service in holdingany one tolerably tight, Well, said Claude, I have not a very long time to spare, and I must begetting on a little, so let us walk our horses westward. If we meet him,well and good, If we dont, of course it cant be helped; but somehow,it comes across me that we shall. So it does me, my friend. I dreamt it last night, and my dreamsgenerally come true. So do mine. Do you know I dreamt that I met an idiot, who handedme a fifty-pound-note for nothing at all, And idiot, sir ? Yes, to be sure, and you are the man. Jack—Jack. Talcs. TORPIN, AND SIXTEEN-STRlNG JACK. 387
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Claude and Jack making their Escape fiom the Glovers Yes. I am here. Look to that fellow behind, and blow his brains out at once, if he stirsan inch. Now, my friend, your dream has come true, for I am ClaudeDuval; and my dream will come true, for you will hand me the fifty-pound-note • so you see what wonderful and providential things dreams are, attimes. The man glared at Claude, as though he had seen a spectre, and he repeat-ed the words Claude Duval! as though they had only come to him floatingun the air, and he had not the least idea in the world as to who had givenutterance to them. Then, suddenly, in a screaming voice, he called out— Jenkins, catch the other one, Ive got this ! 388 LIJB AND ADTENTIjBES of CLAUDE DUvAL, The great, bony Land was stretched out, and Claudes collar was fastenedupon with no despicable grasp. You would be wise, said Claude, to take your hand away. Catch the other one, Jenkins! Catch the other one! I have got him, growled Jenkins. Call out murder, J

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