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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
168
It
occasionally
happens
that
when
the
eye
is
unable
to
make
out
an
address,
the
ear
comes
to
the
rescue.
In
London
a
letter
came
to
hand
directed
to
Mr
Owl
O'Neil,
General
Post
Office.
But
no
one
was
known
there
of
that
name.
A
clerk,
looking
at
the
letter,
commenced
to
repeat
aloud,
"Mr
Owl
O'Neil,
Mr
Owl
O'Neil,"
when
another
clerk,
hearing
him,
exclaimed,
"Why!
that
must
be
intended
for
Mr
Rowland
Hill,"--which
indeed
proved
to
be
the
case.
A
similar
circumstance
happened
in
Edinburgh,
with
a
letter
from
Australia,
addressed
to
Mr
----
Johns.
7.
Scotland.
It
proved
to
be
intended
for
Johnshaven,
a
village
in
the
north
of
Scotland.
Two
odd
addresses
are
as
follows,
one
being
from
America,
the
other
from
Ireland:--
Little
Alice,
Serio-Comic
Singer,
London,
England.
to
Edinburgh
City,
Scotland,
For
Pat
Feeley,
Katie
Kinnigan's
Son,
Ould
fishmarket
close,
Number
42,
send
this
with
speed.
An
American
gentleman
having
arrived
in
England,
and
not
knowing
where
a
sister
was
residing
at
the
time,
addressed
a
letter
to
her
previous
residence
thus--
Upper
Norwood,
or
Elsewhere.
The
letter
having
been
delivered
to
the
lady,
the
writer
intimated
to
the
Post-office
that
he
had
received
a
reply
in
ordinary
course,
and
explaining
that
the
letter
had
been
delivered
to
her
on
the
top
of
a
stage-coach
in
Wales.
In
admiration
of
the
means
taken
to
follow
up
his
sister,
the
writer
ventured
to
add,
"that
no
other
country
can
show
the
parallel,
or
would
take
the
trouble
at
any
cost."
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