HER MAJESTY'S MAILS.
An amusing circumstance took place some time ago at a village between Hclmskale and Kirkwall. The mailcart passed late at night or early in the morning, and it is the practice of the postmasters, in various sub.offices, to make up the mails and take them to their bed-rooms, so that when the knock of the mail guard is heard the postmaster has- only to run to the window and hand out and receive the bags. On the occasion in question the guard awakened out of a sound-nap one worthy official, who, in a half-somnolent state, rushed to a chair, and, taking them up by the braces, which he imagined to be the straps of the mailbag, handed out of the window his trousers. The guard, running to the conveyance, was about to utter the customary " right," when he was surprised by the unusual lightness and length of the bag. A little examination revealed the mistake, and, rushing back, he alarmed the worthy official with a loud and angry " Holloa there ! ye've gien me a bag open at three end's. Ltise, man, talc in yir breeks, aud gie me the bags? "
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1198, 31 July 1874, Page 4
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193HER MAJESTY'S MAILS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1198, 31 July 1874, Page 4
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