With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D

With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. - (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. Brushwood Boy, The Captains Courageous Collected Verse Day's Work, The Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads Five Nations, The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, Second Just So Song Book Just So Stories Kim Kipling Birthday Book, The Life's Handicap; Being Stories of Mine Own People Light That Failed, The Many Inventions Naulahka, The (With Wolcott Balestier) Plain Tales from the Hills Puck of Pook's Hill Sea to Sea, From Seven Seas, The Soldier Stories Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, and In Black and White Stalky & Co. They Traffics and Discoveries Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in "Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed"; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G.P.O. still calls "coaches." Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the guides to be locked on to their waiting[4] packets three hundred feet nearer the stars. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 29135
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Release Date: Jun 16, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924 , Reuterdahl, Henry, 1871-1925