United States or Namibia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"There should be great deeds, my dear Jules;" and Monsieur Durand adjusted the wick of a smoking brass lamp that hung suspended from the ceiling of a room of the inn, store and post-office at Lamar. "Meanwhile, this being but Wednesday, we have our work to do." "Which is not so simple after all, as one studies the situation. Mr. Armitage is here, quite within reach.
As Jane and I returned from a visit to the post-office along a sweltering path among the rice-fields, from which warm waves of air rose steaming into the sunset, we failed to observe the celebrated and superior coolness of Gunderbal' Thursday, July 6. The lumbadhar of Gunderbal, in spite of his magnificent name, is a rascal of the deepest dye.
SPRING had opened, and the thawing prairie lay in splotches of black and white like the hide of a calico pony, before the family again thought of the naming of the little girl. Then her mother despatched the youngest brother to the post-office, a day's ride to the east, to mail an order to a store in a far-away city.
As it was an important one, admitting of no delay, we hasted at once to the post-office, where he went in, leaving me outside to watch the rather meagre stream of goers and comers who at that time of day make the post-office of a country town their place of rendezvous.
"Is he alive an' well?" "Yes." "Glory to Washington! Do you know them circus folks has offered a reward o' three hundred dollars fer that lion if caught alive?" "Then the money is ours!" cried Shep. "Hurrah, boys, that suits me down to the ground!" "Are you sure about the reward?" asked Snap. "O' course -I read the poster in the post-office.
He dropped in on Captain Grant, as he was careful to tell that gentleman, having had business in Waltham that morning, and thinking he might perhaps save him a journey to town. The ship-owner had just finished the news of the morning papers, for which he had sent a messenger express to the post-office, and said, after the cordial salutation which a rough sort of man always gives in his own house,
The one-legged man who rode his donkey into Nuncombe Putney would reach his post-office not above half an hour after his proper time; but he was very slow in stumping round the village, and seldom reached the Clock House much before ten. On a certain morning two or three days after the conversation just recorded it was past ten when he brought two letters to the door, one for Mrs.
We called this our post-office. I am not complaining, though, of my lack of education. I have had a right good chance in life, and have no reason to complain except that I wish I could have had a little more time to play and to be with my mother. It was she, though, that had the hard time. By this time I had begun to understand why John Rucker was always so cross and cruel to my mother.
When; I came to a town where my money lay at a post-office, I drew a shilling or two and sent the bulk on further; but during the whole seven weeks I only trespassed on my hoard to the extent of fifty shillings. Without that hoard, or without a breach of the law, my imaginary compositor would surely have died.
However, I have been informed that at Lyons, through which the Emperor passed on the 23d at eleven at night, the cry of "Vive l'Empereur!" was still echoed among the groups who assembled before the post-office during the change of horses. Augereau, who was still a Republican, though he accepted the title of Duke of Castiglione from Napoleon, had always been among the discontented.
Word Of The Day