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"I see'd the ladies cross the brook, and enter these old ruins," interposed the postboy, who had now joined the party.

With that Mr. Sharp jumped into the barouche, and bade the postboy drive on as fast as he could.

No wonder that the postboy fell an easy victim to the highwaymen, who bound him and threw him into an out-of-the-way field.

Among other outrages, a mailbag was stolen from the York postboy, on the evening of February 22 in that year.