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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
person
telegraphed
to
a
friend
to
"take
two
stalls
at
the
Haymarket,"
but
the
message
conveyed
directions
to
secure
"two
stables
at
the
Haymarket."
In
another
telegram,
the
intimation,
"mother
is
no
worse,"
was
changed
to
"mother
is
no
more."
Again,
"You
will
be
glad
to
hear
that
your
sister
has
accepted
an
engagement
with
your
father's
approval,"
was
rendered,
"that
your
sister
has
accepted
an
engagement
with
your
father's
apostle."
In
another
case
a
plain
business
message,
thus--"Come
to
me
as
early
as
you
can,
that
we
may
arrange
Wednesday,"
was
given
a
matrimonial
turn
by
being
delivered
as,
"that
we
may
arrange
wedding."
The
next
case
is
one
in
which
a
hungry
man
would
doubtless
be
made
an
angry
man
in
consequence
of
the
mistake
which
occurred.
His
message,
which
was
written
thus,--"Shall
arrive
by
train
to-morrow
morning;
provide
a
good
supply
of
bread,
butter,
eggs,
milk,
and
potatoes,"--was
delivered
as
"provide
a
good
supper
of
bread,"
&c.
In
another
instance
the
notice
that
"Mr
----
will
come
to-night
with
me
at
7
to
tea,"
was
rendered,
"Mr
----
will
come
to-night
with
me,
get
7
to
tea;"
the
only
argument
in
favour
of
the
mistake
being
"the
more
the
merrier."
Then,
on
another
occasion,
a
telegram
sent
by
a
person
in
the
country
to
"Madame
----,
Costumier,"
at
an
address
in
London,
conveying
an
order
for
a
fancy
dress,
was
presented
to
the
maker
of
costumes
as
"Madame
----,
Costermonger."
In
a
telegram
directed
to
"----,
M.P.,
House
of
Commons,"
the
address
somehow
got
changed
to
"----,
M.P.,
House
of
Correction;"
but
the
member
not
being
found
there,
the
clerks
at
the
delivering
office
suggested
that
it
should
be
tried
at
the
"House
of
Detention,"--a
not
unlikely
place
for
successful
delivery
of
such
a
message
as
things
were
at
the
time.
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