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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
263
"ILLINOIS,
U.S.
"Mr
Postmaster
if
you
would
be
so
kind
as
to
seek
for
us
work
as
we
are
two
colored
young
men
of
----
Illinois,
and
would
like
to
come
to
England
and
get
work
as
Coachmen
or
race
horse
trainers,
as
we
have
been
experance
for
twelve
years
practicesing
training--if
any
further
information
about
it
we
can
be
reckemend
to
any
one
that
wish
to
hire
us,
pleas
to
advertise
it
in
the
papers
for
us."
The
two
letters
of
inquiry
for
situations
which
follow
are
rather
amusing,
owing
to
their
mode
of
expression,
being
written
by
foreigners
not
having
a
command
of
the
English
idiom;
and
they
will
mirror
to
our
own
countrymen
what
sort
of
figures
they
must
sometimes
cut
in
the
eyes
of
our
neighbours
across
the
Channel,
when
airing
their
"dictionary
French"
in
the
metropolis
of
fashion:--
"SIR,--I
have
the
honour
of
coming
to
solicit
of
your
goodwill
of
telling
me
if
I
could
not
to
pass
into
the
English
Telegraphic
Administration,
and,
in
the
affirmative,
what
I
would
must
make
for
that.
I
have
undergone
here
all
the
examens
demanded
by
the
French
Administration;
I
am
now
surnumerary,
and
in
a
few
months
I
shall
be
named
clerck.
I
know
completely
the
two
Breguet's
and
Morse
machines,
and
I
have
begun
the
'Hughes.'
But,
as
I
am
now
in
a
little
office
where
that
last
is
not
employed,
I
cannot
improve
me
actually.
I
have
also
some
knowledge
of
the
English
language.
I
have
kept
the
last
year
the
post
of
----
during
several
months.
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