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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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It
is
not
an
uncommon
thing
for
messengers
to
lose
their
lives
in
the
discharge
of
their
duties,
and
a
severe
winter
seldom
passes
without
some
fatality
of
this
kind.
In
the
winter
of
1876-77,
a
sad
accident
befell
a
messenger
employed
in
Northumberland.
On
a
night
of
intense
darkness
and
storm,
this
man
turned
off
the
usual
road
in
order
to
avoid
crossing
a
swollen
stream;
and
subsequently
losing
his
way,
he
sank
down
and
died,
overcome
by
exposure
and
fatigue.
In
another
case
a
messenger
at
Lochcarron,
in
Scotland,
being
unable
to
pursue
his
usual
route
over
a
mountain
2000
feet
high,
on
account
of
a
heavy
fall
of
snow,
proceeded
by
water
to
complete
his
journey;
but
the
boat
which
he
had
engaged
capsized,
and
both
the
messenger
and
two
other
persons
who
accompanied
him
were
drowned.
A
few
years
ago,
on
the
evening
of
Christmas-day,
a
rural
messenger
at
Bannow,
in
Ireland,
while
on
his
return
journey
along
a
narrow
path
flanked
on
each
side
by
a
deep
ditch,
is
believed
to
have
been
tripped
by
a
furze-root,
and
being
precipitated
into
one
of
the
ditches,
was
unfortunately
drowned.
The
rural
post-messengers
having,
moreover,
to
visit
isolated
houses
along
their
route,
are
exposed
to
the
attacks
of
dogs
kept
about
the
premises.
A
few
years
ago
a
rural
messenger
was
delivering
letters
at
a
farmhouse,
when
he
was
severely
bitten
by
a
retriever
dog,
and
he
died
six
weeks
afterwards
from
tetanus.
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