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- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Publisher: Books on Demand
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 53
- ISBN: 9783748130758
- ISBN-10: 3748130759
- ISBN-13: 9783748130758
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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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 packets three hundred feet nearer the stars.
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Publisher: Books on Demand
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 53
- ISBN: 9783748130758
- ISBN-10: 3748130759
- ISBN-13: 9783748130758
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
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 packets three hundred feet nearer the stars.
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