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Updated: May 4, 2025
The officials, of whom there were six in the van, had littered their sorting-table and arranged many of the letters, and the limited mail was flying north at full speed before the Bones epistle found its appropriate pigeon-hole for it must be understood that the vans of the Travelling Post-Office the T.P.O., as it is familiarly called by its friends are fitted up on one side with a long narrow table, above which are numerous pigeon-holes, arranged somewhat like those of the sorting-tables in the non-travelling Post-Offices.
"We shall see," replied Mr Bright, quietly, as he led the way back to the gallery. From this point it could be seen, even by unpractised eyes, that, although the confusion of letters all over the place was still considerable, there were huge gaps on the sorting-tables everywhere, while the facing-tables were of course empty. There was a push and energy also which had not prevailed at first.
"I'm damned if they're not asking ten pounds apiece for claims," said he; "did you ever hear of anything so ridiculous?" Within a few weeks it was amply proved that the new mine was one of enormous richness. Day by day large and valuable stones were unearthed. On some sorting-tables the finds ran up to as many as five and twenty diamonds per day.
Through these extending away in far perspective, so that the busy workers in the distance became like miniature men could be seen rows on rows of facing and sorting-tables, covered, heaped up, and almost hidden, by the snows of the evening mail.
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