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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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CHAPTER
XX.
SINGULAR
COINCIDENCES.
Extraordinary
coincidences
have
been
chronicled
in
connection
with
almost
every
situation
in
life,
some
fortunate
and
attended
with
profit
to
those
involved,
others
unfortunate
or
disastrous;
and
the
Post-office
is
no
exception
to
the
rule
as
being
a
field
for
the
observation
of
such
occurrences.
The
peculiar
nature
of
the
coincidences
to
be
observed
in
the
following
examples
may
be
worthy
of
note,
or
at
any
rate
the
cases
may
repay
their
perusal
with
some
small
degree
of
interest:--
"Among
the
workmen
employed
in
some
alterations
at
a
nobleman's
country
seat
were
two
bearing
exactly
the
same
Christian
name
and
surname,
but
unconnected
and
unacquainted
with
each
other,
one
being
a
joiner,
the
other
a
mason.
The
joiner,
who
was
a
depositor
in
the
Post-office
Savings'
Bank,
having
received
no
acknowledgment
of
a
deposit
of
L3,
obtained
a
duplicate.
The
mason,
who
was
not
a
depositor,
became
insane
and
was
removed
to
a
lunatic
asylum
about
the
same
time;
and
the
original
acknowledgment,
intended
for
the
joiner,
having
fallen
into
the
hands
of
the
mason's
mother,
she
concluded
that
the
account
was
his,
and
made
a
claim
for
the
money
towards
defraying
the
expenses
of
his
maintenance,
and
was
with
difficulty
undeceived."
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