... uninjured, and went back to the toll-house. It is this sort of thing that casts a sort of halo about even such scoundrels as Dick Turpin. But Ward, like Brady, another of the better class of villain, had some thing of chivalry. This is Mr. Boxall's account ...

... have a series of delightful perver sions of old-fashioned romance. The penny-plain twopence-coloured literature of the Dick Turpin type was the real inspirer of Sir William Gilbert's fancy. I admit that the great mass of people may take it on its own merits ...

... order to appear there and aL Harrogate the next afternoon and evening, and was aptly dubbed by the provincial papers the Dick Turpin of the drama an honorary title which has stuck to him throughout the tour, not only because of his repetition of the famous ...

... whereas our ancestors had their scores of haunted houses, we have our hundreds of scores. The same applies to highwaymen. Dick Turpin, if he had had the luck to take that ride to York City which he never did take, might still have had some breath left over ...

... penny dreadfuls, which led many a boy into evil ways as he gloated over the daring deeds of the famous highwaymen of old, Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. But these at least rode and fought and delivered damsels in distress, and did much that was heroic and ...

... Answer (New Theatre) MR. W. WALLACE BRUCE Enthusiastic County Councillor, died on October 21 A NOTABLE ORGANIST Dr. E. H. Turpin, died on October 25, aged seventy-two LT.-COL. J. H. PATTERSON, D.S.O. Chief game ranger in British East Africa Protectorate ...

... can always step out of himself and rationalise his jemmy. The popular English highwayman and pirate from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin (dear to the sawdust) has always been a humorist, and occasionally a philanthropist, but I think the philosophical type is ...

... arranged that either of them could be used in an emergency to hide it, I had covertly placed the diverting his tory of Dick Turpin, or Sixteen -String- Jack, or some other hero of the road and the gallows tree. The consequence is, that while to this day ...

... Jack and Harry, Polly and Eliza. The precocious gutter urchin may think it a jolly lark a performance akin to those of I)ick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, or Claude Duval. The timid one is scared out of its wits. But both hear too much, see too much, are seen to ...

... of England. They are of varied achievements, in proof of which I may mention Sir William Broadbent and Captain Cook, Dick Turpin and Mother Shipton. Until I was sixteen and a half I was brought up on a farm, and when I decided that I would neither be ...

... view over everything. The sports were great fun, too. There was a donkey race, the riders in fancy cos tume. One was Hick Turpin, mask and all, another was a young fellow elaborately got up as a lady with dark habit, top boots, and covert coat. His hair ...

... up and down, and there are some strangely turned out equestriennes riding astride, one appearing in a cocked hat and Dick Turpin sort of coat. Carriages Weird and Otherwise The Park in the afternoon is very little better than it is in the morning, for ...