CHAPTER XL 



HARRY WRIGHT CAUGHT IN A TRAP. 



T HAVE before mentioned Harry Wright, 

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

 and the whole bench of magistrates, with his 

 sandy rabbit trick. Master Harry used to go 

 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 very 



