Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


Nevertheless, Billy enjoyed the driving, never more so than when
he held the reins, not of four plodding workhorses, but of four
fast driving animals, his foot on the powerful brake, and swung
around curves and along dizzy cliff-rims to a frightened chorus
of women passengers. And when it came to horse judgment and
treatment of sick and injured horses even the owner of the stable
yielded place to Billy.


"I could get a regular job there any time," he boasted quietly to
Saxon. "Why, the country's just sproutin' with jobs for any so-so
sort of a fellow. I bet anything, right now, if I said to the
boss that I'd take sixty dollars an' work regular, he'd jump for
me. He's hinted as much.--And, say! Are you onta the fact that
yours truly has learnt a new trade. Well he has. He could take a
job stage-drivin' anywheres. They drive six on some of the stages
up in Lake County. If we ever get there, I'll get thick with some
driver, just to get the reins of six in my hands. An' I'll have
you on the box beside me. Some goin' that! Some goin'!"

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