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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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When
postage-stamps
were
first
introduced
in
England,
it
was
little
thought
that
they
would
become
a
medium
of
exchange,
and
far
less
that
they
would
excite
such
a
furore
among
stamp
collectors.
The
same
stamp
may
do
duty
in
a
number
of
various
ways
before
it
serves
its
normal
purpose.
It
may
have
proceeded
through
the
post
a
dozen
times
imbedded
within
the
folds
of
a
letter,
before
it
becomes
affixed
to
one,
and
gets
its
career
ended
by
an
ugly
knock
on
the
face--for
its
countenance
once
disfigured,
it
has
run
its
course.
Besides
their
being
so
handy
in
paying
a
trifling
debt
or
going
on
a
merciful
errand,
the
advertising
columns
of
any
newspaper
will
shew
the
reader
many
of
the
thousand
and
one
ways
in
which
he
may
turn
his
spare
postage-stamps
to
account.
You
may
suddenly
fall
upon
a
promise
of
an
easy
competence
for
the
insignificant
acknowledgment
of
half-a-crown's
worth
of
this
article.
Friends
to
humanity
assure
you
a
prompt
remittance
of
thirteen
Queen's
heads
will
secure
you
perfect
exemption
from
all
the
ills
that
flesh
is
heir
to.
For
the
same
quantity
another
who
does
the
prophetic
strain,
will
tell
you
which
horse
will
win
the
Derby,
"as
surely
as
if
you
stood
at
the
winning-post
on
the
very
day."
"Stable
Boy,"
promises
all
subscribers
of
twelve
stamps
that
if
they
"do
not
win
on
this
event,
he
will
never
put
his
name
in
print
again."
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