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PAUL CLIFFORD.
CHAPTER II.
The rogues were very merry on the booty. They said a thousand things that showed the wickedness of their morals.
They fixed on a spot where they made a cave, which was large enough to receive them and their horses. This cave was enclosed within a sort of thicket of bushes and brambles. From this station they used to issue, &c.
Gil Blas.
Memoirs of Richard Turpin.
It was not for several minutes after their flight had commenced, that any conversation passed between the robbers. Their horses flew on like wind, and the country through which they rode presented to their speed no other obstacle than an occasional hedge, or a short cut through the thicknesses of some leafless beechwood. The stars
