Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department

CHAPTER XVIII.

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FRAUDS CARRIED ON THROUGH THE MAILS.

Sad Perversion of Talent--Increase of Roguery--Professional Men suffer--Young America _at_ the "Bar"--Papers from Liverpool--The Trick successful--A legal Document--Owning up--A careless Magistrate--Letters from the Un-duped--Victimizing the Clergy--A lithograph Letter--Metropolitan Sermons--An up-town Church--A Book of Travels--Natural Reflections--Wholesome Advice--The Seed Mania--_Strong_ Inducements--Barnes' Notes--"First rate Notice"--Farmer Johnson--Wethersfield outdone--Joab missing--"Gift Enterprise"--List of Prizes--The Trap well baited--Evading the Police--The _Scrub_ Race 242