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THE DAY'S WORK

By Rudyard Kipling




CONTENTS

     THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS
     A WALKING DELEGATE
     THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF
     THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS
     THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA
     WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
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     THE MALTESE CAT
     BREAD UPON THE WATERS
     AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION
     MY SUNDAY AT HOME
     THE BRUSHWOOD BOY




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 too 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 fin length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed
with the Find