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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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At
one
of
these
points
a
considerable
addition
was
made
to
the
staff
of
sorters,
who
fell
at
once
to
work
in
the
vacant
spaces
left
for
them.
And
it
was
not
before
they
were
required;
for
presently
the
train
arrives
at
one
of
the
principal
mail
junctions
in
the
kingdom,
where
an
immense
number
of
bags
wait
our
arrival.
These
bags
have
been
brought
somewhat
earlier
on,
by
other
mail
trains,
arranged
so
as
to
effect
a
junction
with
us;
these
having
in
their
turn
met
with
other
trains
running
across
the
country
in
transverse
directions.
Thus
there
are
here,
bags
from
towns
near
and
towns
remote,
containing
letters
for
places
from
which
we
are,
as
yet,
hundreds
of
miles
distant.
The
work,
however,
will
be
resumed
with
increased
activity,
according
to
the
number
of
letters
which
may
be
forthcoming,
only
whatever
number
there
may
be,
all
must
be
finished
in
a
given
time.
So
far,
the
reader
may
imagine
the
duty
to
be
one
of
dull
routine
and
very
monotonous;
so
as
a
rule
we
believe
it
is:
there
are
circumstances
connected
with
the
manner
of
travelling,
however,
which
conspire
to
make
it
at
times
somewhat
varied
and
exceptional.
One
moment,
and
we
are
clattering
down
a
hill,
and
the
sorting
partakes,
to
some
extent,
of
the
same
tear-away
speed;
another
time,
we
are
panting
up
a
line
of
steep
gradient,
and
the
letters
find
their
boxes
very
deliberately;
now,
the
rails
are
somewhat
out
of
order,
or
the
coupling
of
the
carriages
has
not
been
well
attended
to,
or
we
are
winding
round
a
succession
of
sharp
curves,
and
can
scarcely
keep
our
feet
as
the
carriage
lurches
first
to
one
side,
then
to
the
other;
in
all
which
cases,
not
only
is
our
own
equilibrium
a
source
of
difficulty
to
us,
but
we
see
that
things
proceed
anything
but
smoothly
among
the
letters,
which
refuse
to
go
in
at
all,
or
go
in
with
a
spirited
evolution,
fluttering
outside,
and
then
landing
at
their
destination
upside
down,
or
in
some
other
way
transgressing
official
rules
in
such
case
made
and
provided.
Then
the
work
is
accompanied
to
the
different
kinds
of
music,
well
known
to
"express
travellers."
Now
the
train
is
tearing
away
through
a
tunnel,
or
through
an
interminably
long
cutting
of
thick-ribbed
stone,
and
then
under
or
over
a
bridge.
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