My uncle peeped out of the coach window as they emerged from the yard, and observed that the other
mails, with coachmen, guards, horses, and passengers, complete, were driving round and round in circles, at a slow trot of about five miles an hour.
'I don't know!' said the man, 'it an't for the want of a will in them
Mails, if he an't.' The speaker having folded his arms, and set in comfortably to address his depreciation of them
Mails to any of the bystanders who would listen, several voices, out of pure sympathy with the sufferer, confirmed him; one voice saying to Clennam, 'They're a public nuisance, them
Mails, sir;' another, 'I see one on 'em pull up within half a inch of a boy, last night;' another, 'I see one on 'em go over a cat, sir--and it might have been your own mother;' and all representing, by implication, that if he happened to possess any public influence, he could not use it better than against them
Mails.
"If the
mail boat doesn't run, I presume there will be something else we can charter."
Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the
mail. All three were wrapped to the cheekbones and over the ears, and wore jack-boots.
This rig of mine's kinder small for the
mail bags and I'm some heftier than Thomas!' Just wait, miss, till I shift these bags a bit and I'll tuck you in somehow.
When I get back with the
mail, I'll head that way so fast you-all won't see my trail for smoke.
Ends had the address, and the check would be
mailed the first thing in the morning.
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.
On one side of the saddle hung a short battle-axe, richly inlaid with Damascene carving; on the other the rider's plumed head-piece and hood of
mail, with a long two-handed sword, used by the chivalry of the period.
I could go on telling you odd things that happen here for hours, but I must finish soon as the chap is starting with the
mail. I am enjoying it.
Further particulars may be looked for by the next
mail."
Further, I took the civil service examinations for
mail carrier and passed first.