"The train-robbers were such thoroughgoing duffers at the trade," I said, "that if they had left their names and addresses they wouldn't have made it much easier.

When he was about to walk away, he turned round and said, "I did not mention to thee that the robbers I killed were two mosquitoes."

We since heard that the robbers were Burman soldiers belonging to the camp at Kumaroot, whither they carried their spoils.

"Robber of the Haram, from Jehannum is thy body!"

The robber would brag, and we should blush; in other words, the robber and we are alike sentimentalists.

Even as a single robber, I mean he who robs one man, gets hanged, while the robber of a million is a great man, so it seems to be with calumny.

I think the robber and Andy were confederates, and that the whole thing was cut and dried, that the man should make the attack, and Andy should appear and frighten him away, for the sake of a reward which I dare say the two have shared together.

THE THEATRE IN MANNHEIM IN 1782 WHERE SCHILLER'S "THE ROBBERS," "FIESCO," AND "LOVE AND INTRIGUE" WERE FIRST PLAYED]

It is further declared that the robber was Faust of Mayence, the partner of Gutenburg, and that it was thus that the honor of the invention passed from Holland to Germany where Gutenberg produced his invention of movable type twelve years later.

All this while the robbers had been yellin' an' swearin', an' cuttin' away at the cellar-door with their tomahawks; an' we well knowed that they would soon be out an' arter us.

And robbers are flat felons by the law.

The robber was a huge black bear.