How We Got Up the Glenmutchkin Railway

How We Got Up the Glenmutchkin Railway by W.E. Ayton is about the business of a popular railroad in Australia. Excerpt: «I WAS confoundedly hard up. My patrimony, never of the largest, had been for the last year on the decrease–a herald would have emblazoned it, „ARGENT, a moneybag improper, in detriment“–and though the attenuating process was not excessively rapid, it was, nevertheless, proceeding at a steady ratio. As for the ordinary means and appliances by which men contrive to recruit their exhausted exchequers, I knew none of them.»