{"product_id":"2940013313415","title":"POST HASTE","description":"Preface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the\u003cbr\u003ePostmaster-General's Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal\u003cbr\u003eintercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and\u003cbr\u003eits Branches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is intended to illustrate--not by any means to exhaust--the subject\u003cbr\u003eof postal work, communication, and incident throughout the Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have to render my grateful acknowledgments to SIR ARTHUR BLACKWOOD;\u003cbr\u003ehis private secretary, CHARLES EDEN, ESQUIRE; and those other officers\u003cbr\u003eof the various Departments who have most kindly afforded me every\u003cbr\u003efacility for investigation, and assisted me to much of the information\u003cbr\u003eused in the construction of the tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf it does not greatly enlighten, I hope that it will at all events\u003cbr\u003einterest and amuse the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR.M. BALLANTYNE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA HERO AND HIS WORSHIPPER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time--only once, observe, she did not do it twice--a widow\u003cbr\u003eof the name of Maylands went, in a fit of moderate insanity, and took up\u003cbr\u003eher abode in a lonely, tumble-down cottage in the west of Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs Maylands was very poor.  She was the widow of an English clergyman,\u003cbr\u003ewho had left her with a small family and the smallest income that was\u003cbr\u003ecompatible with that family's maintenance.  Hence the migration to\u003cbr\u003eIreland, where she had been born, and where she hoped to live\u003cbr\u003eeconomically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tumble-down cottage was near the sea, not far from a little bay\u003cbr\u003enamed Howlin Cove.  Though little it was a tremendous bay, with mighty\u003cbr\u003ecliffs landward, and jutting ledges on either side, and forbidding rocks\u003cbr\u003eat the entrance, which waged continual warfare with the great Atlantic\u003cbr\u003ebillows that rolled into it.  The whole place suggested shipwreck and\u003cbr\u003esmugglers.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082565894384,"sku":"2940013313415","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013313415_p0.jpg?v=1763579585","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013313415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}