A POST OFFICE INCIDENT.
Everybody has heard of the unsophisticated lassie in the olden time who went to viait Glasgow and see her sister, and who. on reaching a suburban toll-gate, knooked at the bar and asked, " Ib oor Mary in V The following story of an Irishman's mode of addressing his letters is not very dissimilar in its conceptions of individualities and the economy of great oitie*. Hit mother is on this side of the Atlantic, and having occasion recently to write to her he addressed his letter to " My Mother, New York, America." Of oourse itwaa supposed it most bo sent to the dead-letter office; but on the day of its arrival a woman inquired at the general delivery for a letter from "my son." The coincidence attracted the attention of the official in charge of the deciphering bureau. Inquiry showed that the son of the woman lived in the town whoße name was postmarked on the letter. After various inquiries, the letter was given to the woman, with the proviso that she Bhould open it there ; and it was found to be from her son, and designed for her.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)
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192A POST OFFICE INCIDENT. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)
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