[Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne]@TWC D-Link bookRobbery Under Arms CHAPTER 20 20/28
Isn't he a regular out-and-outer to look at? And they tell me his looks is about the worst of him.
Well--here's luck!' Starlight had called for drinks all round before we started.
'Here's luck to roads and coaches, and them as lives by 'em.
They'll miss the old coaching system some day--mark my word. I don't hold with these railways they're talkin' about--all steam and hurry-scurry; it starves the country.' 'Quite right, Jonathan,' says Starlight, throwing his leg over Rainbow, and chucking the old groom a sovereign.
'The times have never been half as good as in the old coaching days, before we ever smelt a funnel in New South Wales.
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