POST OFFICE PUZZLES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1489, 22 February 1887, Page 3

POST OFFICE PUZZLES.

A pnrale. Indeed : ' A.Y-r»n«l, O o-f- :- --t-o-t>-lc.' A specimen, this, of on* of the add<««sei sent through the Post Office *▲▼<§!, Ooffook,' and written m a •traggling hand with a pen that evidently "had »n Inclination, hard to curb, for vanning Into the corner of the envelope wad making loops as Urge an lassoes The loiter Is one of m»ny sent to ono ptrtlooUr desk at 8s MarttoVk-Qrand, where etrtsla olerk^ make It their study to battU with Ignorance, and to untie awlsted characters sometimes as pozzliog •a tho oetebrated Uordlan knot. - The vary Ignorant are peculiarly phonetio la thslf spelling, and, regarding the aspirate as an unnecessary letter, * Avrel ' Is at onoe decided to be meant fcr fliver-

bill ; and ' Ooffock ' with the first letter •oftened, becomes tht rustic vptlHng off Suffolk. -.

Th 4 following are some of the puzzles with whlob tha authorities have to deal.

'Bed. ford soosr* Is easily resolved ioto ' Bedford Bquare ;' bat hern is one not so eaty. The mmc i* perf<otly aodoolpher* jKble, bat ihe letter I» addraased to some tst§ it ' Baguiha Osrrcks, Snouoks '~ Kffetofld v ' Ohloestcr Barraoks, Sussex ••

XXejtt comes a letter to a young lady •.■lt *tto I*edd And All Street, LondoD HSittey,' which needs no explanation, un« Yaw the t«»def trips over the eighty-two, is the lore-lofn maiden writing to £ - solditr lad. The address ii ' friat * ii " % « tenant Bates, londonahr. Were." 5 k .V word's ' First Battalion, We!. llnatm B "* HM)^ 8 * London, or elsewhere. " nn£ «JTm« WJ *• addreised as reading 'KnS No^* 10 ' 1 £or lH « b * l ». Koflhamrwlan *^ Jgjjj* I™^1 ™^ •Youenlnfinery/Kal V' t f" d ' "l w ebb la •*.!« <o be In* nn. ._„ titmmM the recipient* ."• »» "P" pr...^ t tii«wise it w-auLV" n^n * feat to reproduce the first Ik - TI J l % an enrclope whose latter ones •»• «. i„» » DHt Love • However, »^ e Jj'{J I r waa aafely delivered at Iver, Book*«Cfa«re wai not much to guide the it \*** iMt for the eye, In the following : * * "*"* lloo.' *nper|tlly when In the writing tL^ r « U fWAt doubt as to whether the first U>u «> II F, J, or L. However, it was made out ooweetlj to be Fanlngdon. The scribe whn wrote the next must hate spent an hour with his op and down •ticket— f ory op aoae of them, and very down— the result being In large round hand— ' loh.K nt, near Sanvige. 1 Ash, Kant, nmr 8a dwlch ;' • cocsnejr, the witter, no donbt. Rowley R«g!» vamx, Dudley, Ii rendered * Bowel and Keadis,' •■d the Isle of Wight, < Alerieht/ with t>pth of whloh there was a hint m the •bnnd ; bnt now we have one of a kl^d that wtiQld Inevitably produce preniatnrtf . baldness m the clerks if they were ifKflien}.. Fanoy * Banstorbenos' for your ■gOiae to Nome town or village ; how lon(/ ■wonld yon be before you made out that it <WM 8t Alban* ?

* One' is rather a shorthand way of tptUfug ' Olney )' bat * Booklngom •hot' •forwards there is something of a olua to I N)llbw. Certainly it was a wonder, bat |v > following fonud an owner «t a _„i,. vb«n villaue ; * temple grove cott»g«, Siat *fw Qurdrer frlday night.' Snralj tkls wa • • nou P n *° m*k« a dark give ft _ n i « x Lipoeanoe' was a very good ■hot at • "WP ho °fc. Hants, 1 rathar batter than "Komi near SMWoiks' for * Bur2i> At Sea/ for • 8t 'Tb*' friends i l ' 9 defenders of on? land do not .him*** • l l I J D ™ h9 i § r *H Wo- c ; Hsra Is ft specim «J '8. P. Gu»des 2 Batt Wlrtoiaw Boi town and b.ks ;• rather a painful manner t * -expreailng « Sco^s Fusilier Guards, Second Battalion, Windsor Bsrraoks.' 4 specially when the lsttsis hava to be g*m*a at, and th§ last word trails off io*o «the« nebolous Isttsrs to which tha fif» i»mld oot give ifbttf. Again, a military \*Ltar Is ad. drtued to Private Boa\^d»so, at « Fnrdey C.1.! Kathsr' a bold »troko to express • Jeriay, Channel Wanda . » To rstnrn to the olvlll^n elnasant here fi a letter for •Lankchlre,' and another for ' Bosokemey Hkear/ the characters forming the last word twialng and later. twining m hopeless conftsion. Hke so taen* eele In a hnolr«te'r'a"pail. ' Shinere. oester. With heaite* waa no aoobt deItfered at Cirenoebter by th« postman at a)t foH trot, and gave a« moch pleasure as aid this to another private, m ' H cool of RMe Hoßt Tillery, Showebry jSxcais. '*3 T^n 3m 3z, was for a •.{•ennglady ac BppJng, Essex, the name co tbe envelope, beldg almost as mnob popped np as the. aaueaqes cf tbat "IfchioTis -.Ilttisj town. Ano her for Byden%sVXU eondanssd Into 'Bldeom k ' • , s TJjfj ntxk taoit lie from. ' The yonog V -"<IW ; who keeps company ; ? ' Bl'z », ~ ' SyttsPtot reller, fun Bvidgewell, and it f oond its way to 'Proßpeot Villas, Ton. rSWie Willa.' There is • fun « m that, '%% tsast. Hera fa another St Albane ■" letter to a tradesman; 'Mr Fishtoonier, Ban tal dauts upset thpr t»uod B(?cppi barf at Bheare.' Doobtlfßa the S fom '.Vt|iyto ihe town v pump was handy, eipeoially* opposite ; bat let us hope it vii not 'apBeJ.V Th© spelling seei2« to gmw more wild M one prooe«as, for her* i« ' hupsr l»]»ry, jfof Upper galloway, • fics »tit6^d,' it rather * poor introduction io J^nny Btratford, • Lattonbuddard ' for Le'pb'on Botcard, and ' Knt ' or 'Cant ' for Kent ; tut nothing, save a sl«ht of the fac smiles kept at tho General Post < ffice, caa give a f«lr ld«»a of the calleraihy, ■the eonf aslon of loops.snd np nnd down r . airokes. Oaplt»ls maWe their apppnraroe : fa the oentre uf words, and other w<>rdf „. tbat have beginnings are without ei<d It is rare,, though, thitt a lefter is not to.iti rightful diitination, for t^vre ■, {.Me pol headu a'v^y^ bmy over these