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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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Again,
when
a
mail
was
passing
through
a
town
between
stages
in
the
middle
of
the
night,
the
postmaster,
awoke
by
the
postboy's
horn,
would
present
himself
at
an
upper
window
and
take
in
his
bag
by
means
of
a
hook
and
line,
his
body
shivering
the
while
in
the
cold
night
blast.
An
instance
of
such
a
proceeding
is
given
by
Williams
in
his
history
of
Watford,
where
the
destinies
of
the
post
were,
at
the
time,
presided
over
by
a
postmistress.
"In
response,"
says
he,
"to
the
thundering
knock
of
the
conductor,
the
old
lady
left
her
couch,
and
thrusting
her
head,
covered
with
a
wide
bordered
night-cap,
out
of
the
bedroom
window,
let
down
the
mail
bag
by
a
string,
and
quickly
returned
to
her
bed
again."
Coming
thus
nightly
to
the
open
window
in
her
night
dress
could
not
have
been
without
its
risks
to
a
delicate
creature
like
the
postmistress.
These
postmasters
required
looking
after
occasionally,
however,
for
they
sometimes
did
wrong.
In
1668
the
postmaster
of
Edinburgh
got
into
trouble
by
levying
charges
of
1d.,
2d.,
or
3d.
upon
letters
over
and
above
the
proper
rates,
and
he
was
peremptorily
ordered
to
discontinue
the
practice.
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