text:  Had they succeeded in effecting their object by plundering the house Farmer Nutt whose habits of staying somewhat late from home on fair nights were well known to all the neighbourhood was to have been waylaid on the towing-path which led to his house and as although a quiet man there was a good deal of resolute spirit about him and he would have had a heavy purse with him the proceeds of stock sold at the fair with which he would not easily have parted there was no question but that he would have found a grave in the canal