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law were refreshing themselves with a dram in that 

 room. What with a cold in the head, and tlie 

 accumulated soot and dust of his hiding - place, he 

 could not help sneezing, although his very life 



THK highwayman's RETKEAT, THE ' CKEEN MAN.' 



depended on the question ' To sneeze or not to 

 sneeze.' 



The minions of the law were not so lar gone in 

 liquor but that they heard the muffled sound of that 

 sneeze, and it took all the landlord's eloquence to 

 persuade them that it was the cat ! 



Where footpads and highwaymen lurked on the 



