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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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When
deposit-books
are
lost
or
destroyed,
some
explanation
is
usually
forthcoming
as
to
how
the
circumstance
occurred,
and
some
of
these
statements
are
of
a
very
curious
kind.
Thus
a
person
employed
in
a
travelling
circus
accounted
for
the
loss
of
his
book
in
these
terms:
"Last
night,
when
I
was
sleeping
in
the
tent,
one
of
our
elephants
broke
loose
and
tore
up
my
coat,
in
the
pocket
of
which
was
my
bank-book,
and
eat
part
of
it.
I
enclose
the
fragments."
In
another
case
the
statement
furnished
was:
"I
think
the
children
has
taken
it
out
of
doors
and
lost
it,
as
they
are
in
the
habbit
of
playing
shutal
cock
with
the
backs
of
books."
Another
depositor
said
that
his
book
was
"supposed
to
have
been
taken
from
the
house
by
our
tame
monkey."
While
in
a
further
case
the
explanation
vouchsafed
was
as
follows:
"I
was
in
a
yard
feeding
my
pigs.
I
took
off
my
coat
and
left
it
down
on
a
barrell;
while
engaged
doing
so,
a
goat
in
the
yard
pulled
it
down.
The
book
falling
out,
the
goat
was
chewing
it
when
I
caught
her."
A
sergeant
in
the
army
lost
his
book
"whilst
in
the
act
of
measuring
a
recruit
for
the
army,"--a
circumstance
which
is,
perhaps,
not
creditable
to
the
recruit.
A
needy
depositor
pledged
his
coat,
forgetting,
however,
to
withdraw
his
deposit-book,
which
was
in
one
of
the
pockets.
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