Pony Express

In the short span of a life still in its prime, he has seen the slow wagon train crawling over the weary miles of the windswept prairie harassed by Indians and other foes, and he has seen the long parallel iron rails push their way across the map of the continent until they span it from gulf to gulf and from ocean to ocean.

The prairie schooner and the pony express have in his time given way to the Pullman coach and the electric wire.

In his boyhood, the strife and struggles, the perils and privations which had beset the Puritans in New England a century before were being reenacted on the western plains, and of this period in the development of our country, this boy can truthfully say, all of which I saw and part of which I was.

In later life, when great military commanders entrusted their lives and those of their men to his keeping, they did it with unhesitating confidence, begotten of the knowledge that he was born and trained upon the spot, a veritable product of the soil.

His father having died while he was still young, he matured early.

His widowed mother taught the boy at her knee the elements of reading and writing, and thus laid the foundation of an education which he had completed in the school of the world.

Living for years in cabins or tents, and oftener under the canopy of heaven, pursuing a career of independent activity which carried him through the various stages of cattle herder, teamster, bronco buster, wagon master, stage driver, pony express rider, hunter, guide, scout, and soldier, he still found time to acquire an education which, added to his native refinement and gentleness of bearing, enables him to appear to advantage in any society or place.

While perfection exists only in the other world, and is not claimed for him, the herder and scout has borne inspection and passed muster in the accepted centers of refinement and cultivation of the world.

have an

informal dinner and then play Pony Express.

Pony Express?

Yes, that's post office with a little more horsing around.

Will you be there, Miss Carroll? I'm not Miss Carroll.

And also so many people are dead because this was at a manor out in the out, you know, in the wherever lands that he had.

The news gets there eventually at the timetable that's kind of expected for a universe that doesn't have the Pony Express.

Yes.

Let alone

What was happening here? It says in verse 10 that he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by courier on horseback riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

So essentially, the Pony Express goes out and delivers all of these letters as fast as it possibly can across the hundred and what is it, 27 provinces that Persia is in control of.

And the reason these letters had to go out super fast was to give the Jews as much time to prepare as possible.

Because it turns out when Haman had cast those lots back in chapter 3 to see what month the Jews should die in, it turned out to be as far away as possible.

Well, damn.

Wasn't that the, what they used to call that, like the Pony Express? Yeah, that's right.

Pony Express.

That's absolutely right.

Yeah.