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Addison also lay in wait with them . If the rogues came and began to shake the trees , all three were to make a rush for the gap , keep them in there , and shout for the old Squire to come down from the house . Addison 's surmise that Alfred and his crony would begin operations that very night proved a shrewd one . Shortly after eleven o'clock he heard a noise at the entrance of the old pound . Asa and Jim were asleep . Addison lay still , and a few minutes later heard the rogues put up their poles with the hooks on them , and begin gently to shake the high limbs . The sound of the pears dropping on the ground waked Asa and Jim , and at a whispered word from Addison all three bounded over the orchard wall and rushed to the gateway , shouting , `` We 've got ye !