A RELIABLE CARRIER.
A business man near the foot of the Woodward avenue had three or four important letters to post one day about a month ago, and as acquaintance was going up Griswold street ho asked him to drop them in at the post office. The mission was cheerfully accepted, and yesterday the happened in at office again for tho first time since that s, date. " Say, Ben," began the dealer, ' "do you over forget anythingf ''Never!" was the prompt reply, '* Do you remember the letters I gave you to mail ono day last month 1" " Perfectly." " And you mailed them f "Idid." "Pleaso feel in your lefthand coat-tail pocket and see if they are not there." " I'll feel, but I remember posting those letters as plainly as I remember ." He felt something 'and began to haul up, and out camo four letters, crumpled and soiled and worn, " I thought so." -' Well by gosh!" ■' And the inoiicv I give you to buy stamps!" "Bless me—bless me—did I ever! Say, I Iwd that coat on that day to go to a funeral, and I'll be hanged if I didn't forget to go to that too."—" Detroit Free Press."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 4 March 1884, Page 2
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198A RELIABLE CARRIER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 4 March 1884, Page 2
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