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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
202
The
following
are
illustrations
of
such
mistakes:--
A
pleasure-party,
telegraphing
to
some
friends,
stated
that
they
had
"arrived
all
right,"
but
the
message
was
rendered,
"We
have
arrived
all
tight."
The
words
"right"
and
"tight"
in
the
Morse
code
are
as
follows:--
r
i
g
h
t
.
-
.
.
.
-
-
.
.
.
.
.
-
t
i
g
h
t
-
.
.
-
-
.
.
.
.
.
-
In
another
case,
a
poor
person,
desiring
to
state
that
her
daughter
was
ill,
wrote
in
her
message,
"Mary
is
bad."
This
was
rendered,
"Mary
is
dead,"
the
sense
being
changed
by
a
slight
imperfection
of
spacing,
thus--
d
e
a
d
-
.
.
.
.
-
-
.
.
instead
of--
b
a
d
-
.
.
.
.
-
-
.
.
In
a
third
case,
owing
to
failing
signals,
possibly
from
so
simple
a
cause
as
the
intermittent
contact
of
the
wire
with
a
wet
branch
of
a
tree,
or
a
particle
of
grit
or
dust
finding
its
way
between
the
points
of
the
instrument,
the
import
of
the
message
was
altogether
changed.
Thus,
"Alfred
doing
well,
enjoyed
egg
to-day,"
was
received,
"Alfred
dying,
enjoyed
GG
to-day."
A
gentleman
telegraphed
from
London
to
his
brother
in
the
country
to
send
a
hack
to
meet
him
at
the
station;
but
when
the
gentleman
arrived
at
the
station
he
found
a
sack
waiting
for
him.
A
firm
in
London
telegraphed,
"Send
rails
ten
foot
lengths;"
but
the
message
was
delivered,
"Send
rails
in
foot
lengths."
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