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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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Mr
Anthony
Trollope
has
left
us,
in
the
account
of
his
life,
a
capital
specimen
of
the
frivolous
and
groundless
complaints
with
which
the
Post-office
has
frequently
to
deal.
His
account
is
as
follows:--"A
gentleman
in
county
Cavan
had
complained
most
bitterly
of
the
injury
done
to
him
by
some
arrangement
of
the
Post-office.
The
nature
of
his
grievance
has
no
present
significance;
but
it
was
so
unendurable
that
he
had
written
many
letters,
couched
in
the
strongest
language.
He
was
most
irate,
and
indulged
himself
in
that
scorn
which
is
so
easy
to
an
angry
mind.
The
place
was
not
in
my
district;
but
I
was
borrowed,
being
young
and
strong,
that
I
might
remember
the
edge
of
his
personal
wrath.
It
was
mid-winter,
and
I
drove
up
to
his
house,
a
squire's
country
seat,
in
the
middle
of
a
snowstorm,
just
as
it
was
becoming
dark.
I
was
on
an
open
jaunting-car,
and
was
on
my
way
from
one
little
town
to
another,
the
cause
of
his
complaint
having
reference
to
some
mail-conveyance
between
the
two.
I
was
certainly
very
cold,
and
very
wet,
and
very
uncomfortable
when
I
entered
his
house.
I
was
admitted
by
a
butler,
but
the
gentleman
himself
hurried
into
the
hall.
I
at
once
began
to
explain
my
business.
'God
bless
me!'
he
said,
'you
are
wet
through.
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