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Next Story 		A coach was traveling the road from London to Edinburgh when it was beset by highwaymen. The driver whipped the horses into a dead run, but the highwaymen were gaining fast.

We'll have to lighten the load if we're to escape these murdering devils he told the passengers. We'll dump all the luggage. And so they did, but the highwaymen continued their pursuit, knowing that all the valuable would still be on the coach with the passengers.

Seeing that they were soon to be overtaken by the thieves, the driver hit upon a plan. He leaned down and asked if there were and brave souls who would agree to leap out and attempt to fight off the bandits, thereby giving the coach a chance to get away. A very large Frenchman stood up, cried out Viva La France, and leapt out of the coach. He succeeded in slowing the bandits down, but not in stopping them, and it wasn't long before they were hot on the coaches tail.

Once again, the driver made his request, this time, an Italian who was even bigger than the Frenchman had been stood up, called out Italia... and jumped. The bandits were momentarily slowed, but soon they regain their pursuit. Now thing were getting desperate.

The driver leaned down and said is there anyone else, if we can just hold off the bandits a short while longer, we'll make it to the village that is just over the ridge. A huge hulk of a Scotsman stood up. He was so big he made the Frenchman and the Italian seem like school boys. He stood at the door of the coach, cried out, Remember Flodden, and threw three Englishmen out.