The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1911-04-07
had betrayed my sex / put spurs to my


steps. / determined to attack what
appeared to be horseman. Stopping
the way as soon as | could discern the
dim outline of horse and rider, / cried:
Halt! Your money or your lifer
AHA, my ladyw responded a man.
$50 I meet you again. recognize you
for the highway woman who robbed
me of my ring. There be that in your
melodious voice which bespeaks your
sex. have been hunting for that
voice ever since, and now / have
/ waited to hear no more, but, turn
ing, galloped away as fast as my horse
would go. The man gave chase. At
first i put some distance between him
and me; but, coming to bad piece of
road, | fell away again, and he, urging
his horse, gained till he rode beside
me. He was about to grasp my rein
when / swerved ON to the turf beside
the road. ! rode on dry ground, but
my pursuer, following me, struck a
bog, in which his horse foundered, so
that made my escape.
One day / rode by the home of my
fathers old friend, Sir John Seymour
was told that Sir John had held his
property, but how | know not, for he
was a stanch supporter of the king.
Mayhap he whom regicides call the
lord protector hoped to win the knight
to his support and on this account
would not dispossess him. / was tired
of my life as a highwayman and re-
solved to go to Sir John and ask him
to take me In till l had communicated
with an aunt in Scotland, who had
some property and whom hoped
eventually might take me in. / would
stay with her till | could find some
more respectable way of gaining a
livelihood than cutting purses To tell
the truth. had given away every pen
ny / had taken, and my own means
that / had brought from home had
now become so exhausted that L was
near the end of my rope. Moreover,
the country being now settled, l dreaded
lest dangle at the end of another rope
placed about my neck by the sheriff.
SO / sold my horse and with the
money received for him bought me
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