Maypole Hugh, and I, you know, and Grip--we have been lying in the forest, and among the trees by the road side, with a dark lantern after night came on, and the dog in a noose ready to slip him when the man came by.' 'What man ?' 'The robber; him that the stars winked at.

We have waited for him after dark these many nights, and we shall have him.

I'd know him in a thousand.

Mother, see here! This is the man.

Look!' He twisted his handkerchief round his head, pulled his hat upon his brow, wrapped his coat about him, and stood up before her: so like the original he counterfeited, that the dark figure peering out behind him might have passed for his own shadow.
'Ha ha ha! We shall have him,' he cried, ridding himself of the semblance as hastily as he had assumed it.