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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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But
we
must
make
ready
for
our
journey,
and
enter
more
into
detail.
While
van
after
van
is
arriving
with
its
heavy
loads
of
mail-bags,
we
have
time
to
notice
that
the
train
standing
at
the
great
London
terminus
is
nearly
all
post-office.
Two
or
three
carriages
are
being
filled
as
full
as
possible
with
made-up
bags,
and
two
more,
fitted
up
like
post-offices,
are
simply
meant
for
operations
similar
to
those
we
have
already
seen
at
the
General
Post-Office,
in
connexion
with
the
unfinished
work
which
has
now
to
be
accomplished
during
the
journey.
It
is
with
the
remaining
carriage
only
that
we
have
to
do.
Seen
from
the
outside,
the
office
itself
may
still
answer
to
the
description
given
of
it
twenty-five
years
ago
by
our
authority
above
adverted
to,
although
considerable
improvements
must
have
been
made
in
its
construction
since
that
time.
Though
the
structure
is
built
with
a
very
evident
serviceable
purpose,
the
large,
heavily-painted,
windowless
vehicle,
looks
more
as
if
intended
for
the
conveyance
of
Her
Majesty's
horses
than
Her
Majesty's
mails;
the
roof,
however,
covered
with
glass,
with
other
contrivances
for
the
purposes
of
ventilation,
soon
convinces
us
that
it
is
intended
for
some
description
of
the
genus
homo.
We
go
inside,
and
find
it
built
like
an
ordinary
saloon
carriage,
about
twenty-two
feet
long,
and
as
wide
and
spacious
as
the
railway
arrangements
will
allow.
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