PLAYED POSTMAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3186, 14 September 1881, Page 4

PLAYED POSTMAN.

A lady of high respectability, residing in one of the avenues of Brooklyn, has a charming little boy, very observant, imitative, and active. The child having noticed the postman constantly leaving letters, and moving off quickly, thought ifc would be a very nice thing to become a postman. _ So he one day went to his mamma's escritoire and took out some twenty-five or thirty letters, tied them up, and sallicd_ forth, leaving one at every house, and moving off quickly. The lady was rather surprised when her next door neighbour brought her an open letter which she said somebody had left at the door; but what was her astonishment when visiting hour arrived, at another, and another, and another lady coming in, all bringing open letters, until her ample parlor was completely crammed. You need not doubt the mirth and fun grew fast and furious as each lady entered with the same tale ; and the little postman was elated beyond measure to find what a capital postman he was. But the best of the fun was, that every lady, one and all, asserted she had not unfolded or read one word. Oh, no! not they ; ladies are far, far above prying into other ladies' letters,