Then had come the return wire, telling of the boy's start to overtake the mail on urgent business.
The booking-office is over there, and the up-mail will be in in a few hours.
Briefly, just after the mail had passed, a big culvert had given not two miles further down the line.
Only I wish you'd ring and see if any mail has come for me.
I got your mail for you," said Smith, handing him an envelope.
While that struggle was in progress the arrival of the weekly mail in a remote village was an event of importance.
Notices of the arrival and departure of ships, time tables of mail coaches, and brief announcements of matters of political interest filled the limited space devoted to domestic news.
Before the days of railroads and prompt and reliable mail service, communication between men in public life and, in fact, all persons of education, was chiefly by letter.
The mail contained good news for all but one of us.
There wasmail aboard her and we had our first tidings of home and friends in a twelve-month.
Cape York was reached on the morning of August 25, and from the two Esquimo families, living at the extreme point of the Cape, we obtained the mail which had been left there by Captain Adams of the Dundee Whaling Fleet Morning Star.
In front of this building our army wagon stopped, and we men went in to inquire formail and to see if we could find a decently clean place for Miss Barton to sleep.
Knight, war correspondent of the London "Times," who was just starting for Havana, to take the Cuban letters with him and mail them there.
When he had finished his letter he put a stamp on it and got up to mail it.
I say, telegraph this minute and say we'll take the house, and send a letter by the next mail with a postal order in it, to secure the place.
One day, though, the fit came on him sudden, before he had time to mail off the books to me; so he burnt them all right on the spot.
Then the boat was made fast and Dave stepped ashore, mail bag in hand.
Our Jackson clad in suit of mail and armed for the fray!
Mike, when masters waxed sarcastic towards him, always assumed an air of stolid stupidity, which was as a suit of mail against satire.
From Albuquerque Jemes may be reached directly by auto-mail stage which passes the pueblo and then proceeds 13 miles further to Jemes Springs postoffice in San Diego Cañon.
And I think here is as good a place as any to say a word about the modern Southwestern mail stage.
My first batch of mail from home; it gave me a small thrill to see two-cent stamps in the corners of the envelopes.
After he had finished, and, the mail being sorted, we were walking homeward together, I asked a question.
Of course I don't mailthe letters, but it sort of squares things with my conscience to really write after talking so much about it.
Our lease isn't up until October and we can leave the servants here and give them our address to have mail forwarded.
The order was transmitted by mail and special messengers to the various colonels, who severally resided at Lowell, Quincy, New Bedford, and Lynn.
Here the Paymaster met the regiment and paid off the men, and here also a large mailwas received.
So close were the ships that he could clearly make out Nuala's figure, with its shimmering mail and red cloak, on the poop of the foremost.
Cathbarr fought for self-control, the breast of his mail shirt rising and falling, his bloodshot eyes beginning to circle about the place once more in a helpless and angry wonder.
Persia was sunk off Crete and the Japanese mail went down seventy miles from the Canal.
He had a copy of the Paris edition of the New York Herald, and showed me, well played up in a prominent place, the last of the Adana massacre stories he had forwarded by mail from Turkey.
If you've got one--whether you paid for the invitation or not, or if you got it in the mail or picked it up on the street, you can go on in.
The mail consisted of one letter; it contained the check which Henry sent her regularly, on the first of each month.
Read it over when you get home, and sign it and mail it to me.
Mr. Mix agreed tomail a copy as soon as the final draft was completed, and he was as good as his word.
I was anxious to get away west, to make the most of my holidays, and, being Sunday, this mail was the only public conveyance permitted through the State of Jersey.
Grace, who happened to be in the library with her father when the mail came in.
One morning Mrs. Bancroft found in the mail a letter dated Gulchville, Colorado, but the address was evidently written by an uneducated person not much in the habit of holding the pen.
I should like to see all the cables jointly owned by the interested nations and a world mail system over sea established by common consent.
A free sea is useless except combined with the freedom of cable and mail communications with all countries, whether belligerent or not.
My adviser, as I was afterwards to find out to my cost, had overlooked the utterly chaotic state of the post-war transatlantic mail service.
My Kansas City was in Missouri, but after searching diligently at the post office for mail that wasn't there, I found there was another Kansas City on the other bank of the river.
If you cannot procure a copy, send us the price, 35 cents, in money or postage stamps, and we will mail you one, postage free.
Hallowell, Maine, and it will be sent by return mail without any charge whatever.
By mail postpaid with big Catalog of Novelties and Tricks Universal Novelty Co.
We train you by mail in a short time--some have completed the course in 10 weeks.
Big Sample Outfit FREE Write us today and we will mail you =absolutely FREE= our beautiful illustrated pattern book showing dozens of the latest city styles and designs, also many large size cloth samples to choose from.
As soon as I receive it I will mail you 20 of the most beautiful premium pictures you ever saw--all brilliant and shimmering colors.
It'll take a couple of weeks, I suppose--time for the mail to get there and back.
Ware came up with the mail a little while ago, and he tells us that George Pollock has suddenly reappeared and is living down at his own place.
They wear armour of chain mail and glittering steel helmets, and carry lances and great curved scimitars.
There was no mail service, and no express office nearer than Salt Lake.
The position on the coast is stationary this morning," says a Daily Mail dispatch from Flushing, Netherlands, under date of Sunday.
British vessels take Austrian and German reservists from two Pacific Mail liners near Hongkong.
