Our first try-on in the coach line was with the Goulburn mail.

We knew the road pretty well, and picked out a place where they had to go slow and couldn't get off the road on either side.

There's always places like that in a coach road near the coast, if you look sharp and lay it out beforehand.

This wasn't on the track to the diggings, but we meant to leave that alone till we got our hand in a bit.

There was a lot of money flying about the country in a general way where there was no sign of gold.