CHAPTER XL 



HARRY WRIGHT CAUGHT IN A TRAP. 



T HAVE before mentioned Harry Wright, 

 -*- and told you how he weathered old Dick, j 

 and the whole bench of magistrates, with his 

 sandy rabbit trick. Master Harry used to go M 

 about the place bragging that no one could 

 catch him ; he met me in a public house, once, 

 and^, taunted me to my face that I had not ' 

 brains enough to take him. He said, moreover, 

 that if ever I did he would be the death of me, 

 but this was all mere idle talk, and so I told 

 him at the time. Nevertheless, he was a v^ery 



