and about the latter there seemed to be a gallantry and romantic swagger which put it on the higher plane of the two. But I was not born to be a bushranger either. I failed at the very first attempt. I was outwitted by my first victim, a thin old gentleman riding a cob at night on the Geelong road.
“‘Why rob me?’ said he. ‘I have only ten pounds in my pocket, and the punishment will be the same as though it were ten thousand.’
and about the latter there seemed to be a gallantry and romantic swagger which put it on the higher plane of the two. But I was not born to be a bushranger either. I failed at the very first attempt. I was outwitted by my first victim, a thin old gentleman riding a cob at night on the Geelong road.
“‘Why rob me?’ said he. ‘I have only ten pounds in my pocket, and the punishment will be the same as though it were ten thousand.’
