Mrs.Weazel, wringing her hands uttered lamentable cries: and the captain, to our great amazement, began to snore; but this artifice did not succeed; for Miss Jenny, shaking him by the shoulder, bawled out, "Sdeath! captain, is this a time to snore, when we are going to be robbed?
Get up for shame, and behave like a soldier and man of honour!" Weazel pretended to be in a great passion for being disturbed, and swore he would have his nap out if all the highwaymen in England surrounded him.

"D--n my blood! what are you afraid of ?" continued he; at the same time trembling with such agitation that the whole carriage shook.

This singular piece of behaviour incensed Miss Ramper so much that she cried, "D--n your pitiful soul, you are as arrant a poltroon, as ever was drummed out of a regiment.

Stop the waggon, Joey--let me out, and by G--d, if I have rhetoric enough, the thief shall not only take your purse, but your skin also." So saying she leaped out with great agility.
By this time the horseman came up and happened to be a gentleman's servant well known to Joey, who communicated the scheme, and desired him to carry it on a little further, by going into the waggon, and questioning those within.

The stranger, consenting for the sake of diversion, approached it, and in a terrible tone demanded, "Who have we got here ?" Isaac replied, with a lamentable voice, "Here's a poor miserable sinner, who has got a small family to maintain, and nothing in the world wherewithal, but these fifteen shillings which if you rob me of we must all starve together." "Who's that sobbing in the other corner ?" said the supposed highwayman.