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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POSTMAN CHRIS. It was about four o'clock of the afternoon when Postman Chris set forth on his second round. He swung along at a rapid pace, looking about him with the pleased, alert air of one for whom his surroundings had not yet lost the charm of novelty. He had, indeed, that very morning entered on Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POSTMAN CHRIS. It was about four o'clock of the afternoon when Postman Chris set forth on his second round. He swung along at a rapid pace, looking about him with the pleased, alert air of one for whom his surroundings had not yet lost the charm of novelty. He had, indeed, that very morning entered on his duties as postman for the first time, though he had served his country in another way before. For Postman Chris Ryves had been Trooper Chris Ryves in a previous state of existence. He had had his fill of warfare in South Africa, and had indeed been wounded at Graspan; the left breast of his brand-new blue uniform was decorated with a medal and quite a row of clasps. Though Postman Chris walked at ease he held himself with the erectness due to military training, and his straw hat was perched at the rakish angle which in earlier days, when he had paraded at Knights- bridge Barracks, had caused the heart of more than one artless city maiden to flutter in her bosom. But for all these past glories of his, Postman Chris was an eminently pleasant and affable person; at any chance salutation of a passer-by the white teeth would flash out in that brown, brown face of his with the most good- humoured of smiles; he delivered up his letters with anurbanity of demeanour that was only surpassed by his soldierly promptitude, and he was willing to exchange the news of the day with any pedestrian who cared to march a short distance in his company. The bag which he carried was not unduly heavy, nor his way fatiguingly long; it was a six-mile round in fact -starting from Chudbury-Marshall, proceeding through Riverton and Little Branston to the market town of Branston and so back again. It chanced that as Chris approached Little Branston Schoolhouse on this particular day, his Books, , Dorset-Dear~~M-E-Francis, 999999999, Dorset Dear: Idylls of Country Life (1905), M.E. Francis, 0548898510, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 340 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=19mm, Gew.=499gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 340 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=19mm, Gew.=499gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert