 The little flat mail-pockets strapped under the rider's thighs would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held many and many an important business chapter and newspaper letter, but these were written on paper as airy and thin as gold-leaf,...  The Stamp-collector's magazine - Page 1021871Full view - About this book
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 620 pages
...light shoes, or none at all. The little flat mail-pockets strapped under the rider's thighs would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...nearly, and thus bulk and weight were economized. The stage-coach traveled about a hundred to a hundred and twenty-five miles a day (twentyfour hours), the... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 326 pages
...shoes, or none at all. The little flat mail-pockets, strapped under the rider's thighs, would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...as gold-leaf nearly, and thus bulk and weight were economised. The stage coach travelled about 100 to 125 miles a day (24 hours), the pony-rider about... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...light shoes or none at all. The little flat mail pockets strapped under the rider's thigh would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...were written on paper as airy and thin as gold-leaf, so as to be packed in the smallest space. 7. The pony-rider traveled about two hundred and fifty miles... | |
 | Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...shoes, or none at all. The little flat mail-pockets, strapped under the rider's thighs, would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...as gold-leaf nearly, and thus bulk and weight were economised. The stage coach travelled about 100 to 125 miles a day (24 hours), the pony-rider about... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...shoes, or none at all. The little flat mail-pockets, strapped under the rider's thighs, would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...as gold-leaf nearly, and thus bulk and weight were economised. The stage coach travelled about 100 to 125 miles a day (24 hours), the pony-rider about... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...light shoes or none at all. The little flat mail pockets strapped under the rider's thigh would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...were written on paper as airy and thin as gold-leaf, so as to be packed in the smallest space. 7. The pony-rider traveled about two hundred and fifty miles... | |
 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Express service - 1881 - 444 pages
...light shoes, or none at all. The little, flat mail-pockets strapped under the rider's thighs would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...on paper as airy and thin as gold-leaf, nearly, and their bulk and weight were economized. The stage-coach traveled about a hundred and twenty-five miles... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...shoes, or none at all. The little flat mail-pockets, strapped under the rider's thighs, would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...as goldleaf nearly, and thus bulk and ,weight were economised. The stage coach travelled about 100 to 125 miles a day (24 hours), the pony -rider about... | |
 | Lady Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent - Voyages around the world - 1886 - 470 pages
...letters in it, mostly. The little flat mail-pockets, strapped under the rider's thighs, would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held...•were written on paper as airy and thin as gold-leaf. There were about eighty pony-riders in the saddle all the time, night and day, stretching in a long,... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - Readers - 1894 - 400 pages
...little flat mail-pockets would each hold about the bulk of a child's primer. They held many an important letter, but these were written on, paper as airy and thin as it could be found, and the postage was five dollars a letter. 7. There were about eighty pony-riders... | |
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