The Day's Work
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:34:47Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:34:47Z |
| dc.date.created | 1898 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3267 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3267 |
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| dc.language.iso | eng |
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| dc.title | The Day's Work |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 3461974 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Bridge-Builders
THE LEAST that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top-heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches.
Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments — the huge stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river and permitted himself to think of the end. With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice . . .
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