Produced by Stephen Hope, Carla Foust, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed and are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. WITH THE NIGHT MAIL A STORY OF 2000 A.D. (TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED) BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING BRUSHWOOD BOY, THE CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS COLLECTED VERSE DAY'S WORK, THE DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS FIVE NATIONS, THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE JUNGLE BOOK, SECOND JUST SO SONG BOOK JUST SO STORIES KIM KIPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK, THE LIFE'S HANDICAP; Being Stories of Mine Own People LIGHT THAT FAILED, THE MANY INVENTIONS NAULAHKA, THE (With Wolcott Balestier) PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS PUCK OF POOK'S HILL SEA TO SEA, FROM SEVEN SEAS, THE SOLDIER STORIES SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, and IN BLACK AND WHITE STALKY & CO. THEY TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW and WEE WILLIE WINKIE [Illustration: "A MAN WITH A GHASTLY SCARLET HEAD FOLLOWS, SHOUTING THAT HE MUST GO BACK AND BUILD UP HIS RAY."] With the Night Mail A STORY OF 2000 A.D. (TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED) BY RUDYARD KIPLING _Illustrated in Color_ BY FRANK X. LEYENDECKER AND H. REUTERDAHL [Decoration] NEW YORK Doubleday, Page & Company 1909 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1909, BY RUDYARD KIPLING PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1909 REPRINTED IN BOOK FORM BY PERMISSION OF THE S. S. McCLURE COMPANY ILLUSTRATIONS "A man with a ghastly scarlet head follows, shouting that he must go back and build up his Ray" _Frontispiece_ FOLLOWING PAGE "Slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light, and the Atlantic takes her" 31 The Storm 39 "I've asked him to tea on Friday" 58 WITH THE NIGHT MAIL A STORY OF 2000 A.D. With the Night Mail