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Originally Posted by alecE
I am convinced that sometime in the early 1960's I read a book that included the phrase "Coachman, coachman, whip up the horses! The rear wheel has fallen off and the postilion has been struck by lightning!" I had thought it was Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men on the Bummel' but the Gutenberg etext I downloaded does not have this phrase at all (neither does it have the dialogue I remember between the narrator and a German shopkeeper regarding the purchase of a collar stud). Can anybody help? This is really bugging me now.
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It might be
The life of Voltaire By Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Stephen G. Tallentyre
http://books.google.com/books?id=MDA...esult&resnum=5