A POSTAL CARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 921, 14 October 1879, Page 2

A POSTAL CARD.

I There were some mad men m a certain I post-office a few days ago. A postal card was dropped into the letter-box, addressed to the " Rev. John Penobscot '•——., *-r- — ." It was an ordinary card, and the postmster. He took it up, glanced atthe address, turned it leisurely over and read : " -, — — , Sept. 29, 1879. •— You, to whom this card is not addressed, and who, nevertheless, have the cheek to read it are a contemptible, unprincipled sneak, and a prying, pusillanimous coward. — George F. Duncan." j The postmaster laid the card gently down, and lounged i# the other end of the house, softly whistling a sacred tune from last Sunday's service. In due time the clerk came upon the card, and perused it, and made the neighborhood hideous with the howls of his pet dog, which he kicked m the ribs. Joe, the the messenger and letter carrier, who helps to despatch the mails, while putting the letters m their respective bags, took the card up, and the way he left down, and the droop of his ears, as he slunk across the yard to his sleepingroom, it would have been thought that he had been stung by a katipo. How the card fared with the various hands through whom it passed it is impossible to say, nor do we know whether it was read by the woman who is postmistress of the office where the Rev. John Penobscot is supposed to get his mail ; but the report is that on the day it reached there she smashed a bottle of ink on her husband's head, spanked the children all round, and chewed up ninety-five cents' worth of wax. We cannot be too careful never to write on postal cards anything m the least calculated to wound the sensitive delicacy of the post-office people's feelings.