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    With the Night Mail
    With the Night Mail
    With the Night Mail
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    With the Night Mail

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    Rudyard Kipling was a prolific British writer and poet.  Kipling’s children fiction, specifically The Jungle Books and Just So Stories, are some of the most famous in English literature.  This edition of With the Night Mail includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781508077947
    With the Night Mail
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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      With the Night Mail - Rudyard Kipling

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      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      ..................

      Rudyard Kipling

      KYPROS PRESS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Rudyard Kipling

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      With the Night Mail

      AERIAL BOARD OF CONTROL BULLETIN

      NOTES

      CORRESPONDENCE

      REVIEWS

      ADVERTISING SECTION

      AIR PLANES AND DIRIGIBLE GOODS

      AIR PLANES AND DIRIGIBLES

      Remember!

      BAT-BOATS

      AIR PLANES AND STARTERS

      J. D. ARDAGH

      ACCESSORIES AND SPARES

      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.

      Time for us to be on the move, says Captain Purnall, and we are shot up by the passenger-lift to the top of the despatch-towers. Our coach will lock on when it is filled and the clerks are aboard....

      "No. 162″ waits for us in Slip E of the topmost stage. The great curve of her back shines frostily under the lights, and some minute alteration of trim makes her rock a little in her holding-down slips.

      Captain Purnall frowns and dives inside. Hissing softly, 162″ comes to rest as level as a rule. From her North Atlantic Winter nose-cap (worn bright as diamond with boring through uncounted leagues of hail, snow, and ice) to the inset of her three built-out propeller-shafts is some two hundred and forty feet. Her extreme diameter, carried well forward, is thirty-seven. Contrast this with the nine hundred by ninety-five of any crack liner and you will realize the power that must drive a hull through all weathers at more than the emergency-speed of the Cyclonic"!

      The eye detects no joint in her skin plating save the sweeping hair-crack of the bow-rudder—Magniac’s rudder

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