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

CHAPTER XIX.

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POST-OFFICE SITES.

Embarrassing duty--An exciting Question--A "Hard Case"--Decease of a Post Master--The Office discontinued--The other side--Call at the White House--The Reference--Agent's Arrival--Molasses Incident--An honest Child--Slicking up--The Academy--Stuck fast--The Shoe Factory--A shrewd Citizen--The Saw Mill--A Tenantless Building--Viewing the "Sites"--Obliging Post Master--The defunct Bank--A Funeral Scene--The Agent discovered--Exciting Meeting--"Restoration Hall"--Eloquent Appeals--A Fire Brand--Committee on Statistics--Generous Volunteers--Being "put down"--Good-nature restored--The Bill "settled"--A Stage Ride--Having the last Word 264