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me, and, looking at him in particular, with 

 his pistol in his hand, called out, in a 

 determined manner 



" I'll have you all in Newgate this night, 

 either dead or alive ! " 



This seemed to quiet them for a time, 

 although they would break out in threats 

 and abuse, of which I came in for the 

 greatest share ; for, at the first change after 

 we had left Barkway, I had suggested 

 to my friend the propriety as well as 

 the efficacy of attaching one of the brace- 

 lets with which the wrists of such persons 

 are usually adorned, to the iron of the 

 dicky, to prevent a repetition of the at- 

 tempt at escape, and this was immediately 

 adopted. The suggestion called down on 

 me a threat of sending some of their ac- 

 quaintances to crack my crib on the first 

 favourable opportunity. 



At Ware we were offered further assis- 

 tance, but the officer in charge not thinking 

 it necessary, we proceeded without, and in 



