five-pund

Updated: September 23, 2025

'It is, replied his lordship, spurring his hack, who was now beginning to lag: 'the fact is, it's eighteen, he continued; 'only if I was to tell Frosty it was eighteen, he would want to lay overnight, and that wouldn't do. Besides the trouble and inconvenience, it would spoil the best part of a five-pund note; and five-pund notes don't grow upon gooseberry-bushes at least, not in my garden.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour