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where, in siunmer time, the steamers get hung up 

 on the sandbanks for lack of water. Ahis, then, for 

 the picturesque foreshore of Strand-on-the- Green ! 



The passengers by the Bath Flying Machine grew 

 at this point a shade paler. They generally expected 

 to be robbed on Hounslow Heath, and their expecta- 



KEW BRIDGE, LOW WATER. 



tions were almost invariably realized by the gentlemen 

 in cocked hats and crape masks, who were by no 

 means backward in coming forward. The fine flower 

 of the highwaymen practised on the Heath, and they 

 did their spiriting gently and with so much courtesy 

 that it was almost (not quite) a pleasure to hand over 

 those rings and guineas of which so plenteous a store 

 was collected every night. 



