[The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Treasure Seekers CHAPTER 13 18/29
And bush-ranging was the same. 'As a matter of fact,' he said, 'I was bush-ranging this afternoon, among the furze-bushes on the Heath, but I had no luck.
I stopped the Lord Mayor in his gilt coach, with all his footmen in plush and gold lace, smart as cockatoos.
But it was no go.
The Lord Mayor hadn't a stiver in his pockets.
One of the footmen had six new pennies: the Lord Mayor always pays his servants' wages in new pennies.
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