Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road — page 133: what you’re looking at

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THE ENIGHT OF FHE ROAD. \ WZ / iy i - uk 5 HI oN NS ~ ve ~ We i ‘ 1305 [THE OFFICERS TAKE EFFECTUAL MEASURES TO DISLODGE DICK TURPIN FROM THE TREES. | —‘ that’s quite certain. Perhaps, after all, he was not | much injured by his frightful fall—at any rate, they are coming, and it must be after me!”’ He paused and wondered what step he should take to secure his own safety. He remembered that he was on foot, while his pur- suers were tolerably well mounted. Therefore flight seemed a thing altogether out of the question. No matter how fleet of foot he might be, in the end he must inevitably be overtaken. _Moreover, he felt in no condition for making use of his running powers, for he began to feel now more acutely than he had at first how much he had been bruised and shaken by falling. On both sides of the road tall trees were growing, most of them with trunks many feet in circumferenoe, and with branches stretching far and wide in every direotion. No, 189.—BuLack Bzss, No. 189. ‘*T may be able to conceal myself in one of those trees,’ he thought—‘‘ at any rate, I will try. They cannot see me, I feel assured, and it would take them a long time to examine these trees, one by one in suc- cession, supposing they had a suspicion that I had taken refuge in one of them. While speaking these words, Dick had fixed his eyes upon one particular tree, which he determined to select as his hiding-place. It was one that afforded several facilities for climb- ing. Scrambling up the bank at the side of the road, on which the hedge was planted, he managed, by reaching up his arms to their full extent, to grasp a stout hori- zontal bough. ) To raise himself by the aid of his hands and feet was now quite easy, and in less than a moment he had ascended half-way up the treo, and had enseonced himself Prick Ong HALFPENNY. EO MMIC OOO) G Syn(EO)