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

    By Frank X. Leyendecker, Henry Reuterdahl and Rudyard Kipling

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

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

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      Title: With The Night Mail

      A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the

      comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

      Author: Rudyard Kipling

      Illustrator: Frank X. Leyendecker

      H. Reuterdahl

      Release Date: June 16, 2009 [EBook #29135]

      Language: English

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      ILLUSTRATIONS

      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      AERIAL BOARD OF CONTROL BULLETIN

      NOTES

      CORRESPONDENCE

      REVIEWS

      ADVERTISING SECTION

      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      A STORY OF 2000 A.D.

      (TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY

      MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED)

      BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING

      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

      A MAN WITH A GHASTLY SCARLET HEAD FOLLOWS, SHOUTING THAT HE MUST GO BACK AND BUILD UP HIS RAY.

      With the Night Mail

      A STORY OF 2000 A.D.

      (TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY

      MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED)

      BY

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      Illustrated in Color

      BY FRANK X. LEYENDECKER

      AND H. REUTERDAHL

      NEW YORK

      Doubleday, Page & Company

      1909

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION

      INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

      COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1909, BY RUDYARD KIPLING

      PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1909

      REPRINTED IN BOOK FORM BY PERMISSION OF

      THE S. S. McCLURE COMPANY

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      FOLLOWING PAGE

      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      A STORY OF 2000 A.D.

      With the Night Mail

      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.

      From the despatching-caisson I was conducted by a courteous and wonderfully learned official—Mr. L. L. Geary, Second Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains' Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), where the mail captains come on for their turn of duty. He introduces me to the Captain of 162—Captain Purnall, and his relief, Captain Hodgson. The one is small and dark; the other large and red; but each has the brooding sheathed glance characteristic of eagles and aëronauts. You can see it in the pictures of our racing professionals, from L. V. Rautsch to little Ada Warrleigh—that fathomless abstraction of eyes habitually turned through naked space.

      On the notice-board in the Captains' Room, the pulsing arrows of some twenty indicators register, degree by geographical degree, the progress of as many homeward-bound packets. The word Cape rises across the face of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mid-weekly mail is in at the Highgate Receiving Towers. That is all. It reminds one comically of the traitorous little bell which in pigeon-fanciers' lofts notifies the return of a homer.

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